"Ever Gamed "THE THING"?" Topic

If have, or always wanted to, then you might get a kick out of this stuff . . .

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thething.ca/blueprints.html
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Enjoy!

CC

My club (Wessex Wargamers Winchester) put on "The Thing" as a participation game at Warfare back in 2006. We got the "best participation game" shield for it, so some people must have liked it!
There are some pics of the game here: link

Dave

Wow, that game looked pretty intense! What rules did you use?

Thanks,

John

Does living in a remote base in Antarctica for five months count?

Thanks for the info. Very useful. Maybe it would work in an RPG setting?

WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Gaming The Thing???? Now that is a BEYOND RAD idea!

Dang it CC… stop with the great ideas… my wife/gaming room/budget won't allow too many more of your great ideas!!!

I didn't even know that EBOB did figures for the film characters of Outpost 31.

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I guess I missed the boat.

CC

That's one of my all-time favorite monster movies. But how would you do it as a game? The two key elements are that 1) you don't know who is an alien, and 2) players who start out as human can change during the game.

#1 seems easy enough at the beginning, but how would you do #2 without tipping off the players as to who is what?

Also, I like the idea of using improvised weapons. Anybody ever play Awful Green Things From Outer Space? They had a system for that that was fun.

I know I'm human. If you were all those Things, you'd just attack me, so some of you are still human…

Thought about it many times. Have had a saved eBay search looking for the old EBOB figs for ages and nothing ever comes up. They were always on my "to get" list and he pulled them before I finally followed through. Argh!!!!!!!!!

I guess I missed the boat.

Helichopper?

Axabrax,

We just need to ask miniature makers to make for us some generic "contemporary/near-future frozen planet colonists" dressed in Artic/Antarctic outfits then!

CC

Add me to the list for off-world frozen colonisits.

In 28mm of course.

Copplestone's Partisans and Partisan Fighters packs from their Future Wars range look pretty chilly and are fairly generic. A few of them are wearing parkas.

Also, some of these guys might work:

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I would love for more in 28mm, but I can find none in 15mm.

CC

The play's the thing

#1 seems easy enough at the beginning, but how would you do #2 without tipping off the players as to who is what?

MeroMero hits the problem on the head. How would you know that even 3 of the players are aliens? It would be more of an RPG scenario. Maybe each player draws cards at the start of each turn. Most say, "You're still Human", but some say, "You're an Alien. Don't tell anyone!"

If an alien player gets alone with a human player, he will try to convert him. How would the other players be oblivious to all this? This is a difficult scenario.

"McCready, the generator is gone."

"Can it be fixed on time?"

"No, it's GONE!"

Ralph

I can see it where a player's character randomly becomes alien. Any actions before that time can be attributed to 'trying to fit in.' That would add a bit of tension to the game as you don't know who is alien, even yourself.

Still, I agree, it would be a difficult scenario but if done well would be quite satisfying.

Maybe dasfrpsl could explain how they did it?

About finding 15mm Arctic/Antarctic figures:

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Well . . . if there are ways to game The Thing with miniatures, then there must be ways to game this oldie . . .

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What do you guys think?

CC
PS. I didn't know there was a video game for The Thing:
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THE THING . . . Part II?

Here ya go:

These guys could be part of a team that goes in and finds McReady and Childs, almost frozen . . .

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And then everything goes south, meaning really bad, as each faction/nation tries to get at the remaining tissue samples for their weapons programs.

Of course, the Norwegians were the ones who found the ship, so they really think they should have possession.

CC
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Or you could, you know, read the link in the first post with the complete rules in it.

You might try looking here:

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Very cool pics there! Thanks.

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CC

I guess that some of the same terrain could be used to game 30 Days of Night:

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Dan

I always wanted to game the thing, solo or with a friend, its about the hidden nature of the virus..

I had a idea just now…

Each time a player/ figure comes into contact with the virus, you make a infection roll, if you fail it you get the virus, hidden roll from other players, and if you fail you get a " thing point" and each time you alone with sombody make a roll maybe a 1D10, and if you roll under your " thing point " score you show your real self..?

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3 players at the same time find a dog dog, and get some blood on themselves, the infecting roll is a 5+ on a D6, each roll and 2 pass and i fail, so hes infected..

That figures has a thing point score of 1 and each time you alone with somebody roll a D10 and roll your thing point of under to turn and attack the other figure, as the game go`s on, your thing point will get stronger…
Maybe using the thing point score of a way of finding out whos human..

Maybe a rubbish idea, but the making a roll to see if your infected each time and don`t tell anybody may work…

Sorry about that i got lost in thought,,,

Check out these ice cavern pieces in clear resin!!!

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Dan
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After you put the kids to bed, check out what's playing tonight on Encore Action:

starz.com/titles/TheThing

Dan

Geez… Yer gunna make me dust off those rules, aren't ya?

I saw a free set of D&D 3.5 rules for it once.

New movie trailer already out:

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Dan

Here are some 15mm figures that may be perfect for the job:

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Dan

Check out these computer reconstructions of Outpost 31:

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Very similar to these older sketches:

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Dan