THE TERMINATOR
The Terminator - The Roleplaying Game
The Terminator RPG is the official roleplaying game based on ‘The Terminator’ movie and associated graphic novels published by Dark Horse comics.
Join the Human Resistance. The world is a wasteland—broken by the machines we built. Our own creations, our own hubris. Not in some distant future. Today. Now. The machines think they have won. But there is one last chance for humankind, a secret weapon that Skynet in its infinite calculations could never have anticipated—you.
Play in any time zone—including the 1980s and future war. All the main characters from the movie, such as Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese and the T-800 are included, as is content from the graphic novels and all all-new, never seen before Terminator variants and hardware.
You play resistance fighters struggling against the machine onslaught of Skynet in an alternative and post-apocalyptic version of today—the once "far future" of the 2020s. You can take the role of rebel time travellers sent back to various points in time to stop Skynet from altering history. You can even play natives of any historical time period, targeted by Terminators and trying to stay alive as a future hell is unleashed around you.
The book is designed as a toolbox to allow the Director to create their own campaigns or one-shots, including detailed campaign arcs, campaign seeds, mini-missions, NPCs, weapons, detailed locations, and enemy characters.
About The Terminator RPG
The Terminator RPG features the Nightfall Games’ S5S system, first seen in SLA Industries 2nd Edition. The S5S is a d10-based rules system. At its core, this system uses a pool of dice, one Success die and five Skill dice per player. The more skilled your character is in the task being attempted, the more likely you are to succeed and “Succeed big.”
The rules set has been tailored specifically to The Terminator setting. Combat, survival and investigation are all dealt with in the rules, along with vehicle combat, time travel and computer hacking, allowing your character to take control of the conflict with unique skills and training. You’ll need all of this and more to take the fight across the timelines and survive.
You have the option to play either pre-generated characters or to create your own—tailored to your preferences, weapon choices, and role within your team. If your character is killed, a new one can be brought in from the future, past, or present. That new character can be many things—including even an alternate you from a divergent timeline.
The game has been built from the ground up to both evoke the tone of the film and place you in the middle of the action. The terror and desperation of facing unstoppable killing machines are yours to bear. Only united with your fellow resistance fighters can you hope to defeat them.
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The Terminator - Campaign Book
Curated by Andrew E.C. Gaska and E.L. Thomas, the 136 page Terminator RPG Campaign Book features the talents of a wide variety of creators offering points of view as varied as the ever-shifting timelines you struggle through in your war against the machines.
In the Dark Future, the Resistance stands on the cusp of victory. Skynet’s defense grid is vulnerable and John Connor has a plan to smash it and win the war. But the insidious AI has decided to play dirty. Experimenting with time displacement technology, Skynet attempts to shear the Resistance from its roots and murder its leader before he’s even born. The mission to save John Connor has already begun, but it isn’t the only battle being played out in the past. The Resistance may start with Connor, but it ends with you.
The Terminator - T2: Judgement Day
The Terminator RPG - T2: Judgment Day sourcebook gives you what you did and didn’t know you needed for your Terminator campaign. Expansive time travel rules, a cold war from the future to the past and back again, and everything there is to know about humankind’s final decade of decadence—the 1990s.
It is the official roleplaying game sourcebook for The Terminator RPG and is based on The Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie. This sourcebook expands upon the comic and cinematic universe from hardcore existing canon to create a living and breathing world with a multitude of possible and probable timelines.
The Terminator - T2: Resist!
T2: Resist! is a sourcebook for The Terminator RPG. It explores the shape of the world in the post apocalyptic Dark Future…before the machines wore human flesh. Resist follows the early apocalpyse, from 1997 to 2020, and looks at the global situation and the stuggles of other nations. Not everyone fell on day one. T2: Resist! offers Directors inspiration for adventures outside the norm of Tech-Com and North America; to show how different places with different contexts might react to the apocalypse and where the horror of Judgment Day could see them crushed or urged on to great and valiant deeds….
This official roleplaying game sourcebook for The Terminator RPG is based on The Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie. It expands upon the comic and cinematic universe from hardcore existing canon to create a living and breathing world with a multitude of possible and probable timelines.
The Terminator - Director’s Pack
The Terminator RPG: Director’s Pack is the companion booklet to the GM screen. It containins all the information that you, as the Director, need for easy reference. Included in the book are:
Two Quick Reference Cards for the players to use
Blank Character Sheet
Three mini campaigns by Matt John and Mark Rapson
Also included in a stunning four-panel games master’s screen featuring all the information the GM needs during the game. Made from durable, thick, high quality card stock, the screen is beautifully illustrated on the player facing side.