Friday, May 25, 2012

The Adventures of James Bomb

I have always been a big James Bond fan, and that fandom not only extends to the Ian Fleming novels and the popular film franchise, but to the Victory Games James Bond 007 RPG as well. I haven't played the latter much, but have a couple of times, and I recall the system being pretty fast-paced, easy to pick up, and generally quite elegant. Back in the day I played Top Secret a great deal, but have looked over those rules recently and find them a bit clunky.

So one of my "back burner" projects this summer will be to take a look at the James Bond 007 Basic Rules and see how easily they dovetail with the FUDGE RPG system. I will dub this project The Adventures of James Bomb. While fans will observe that "James Bomb" is the name of one of the characters I played in Carl's now-defunct Mutant Future campaign, its actual source is the Ian Fleming novel Goldfinger (1959), wherein the partially deaf Auric Goldfinger accidentally calls Bond "Mr. Bomb" early in the book.

My sense is that the James Bond 007 system will adapt relatively easily to FUDGE, and when and if I get the basics written up, I will share them here.


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Posted by Carter Soles at 11:42 PM
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  1. richardMay 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM

    I love the Bond system. Played much Bond Cthulhu in the 80's, adapted it for Dune and steampunk triplanetary gaming (not quite Space 1889) and I'd adapt it in a heartbeat for a flashing blades/d'Artagnan campaign.

    But. Nowadays I want a dead simple system, and Bond is irreducibly crunchy - if you take out the quality results, IMHO you take out the virtue of playing Bond.

    My platonic ideal might be Bond/Dr. Who: I love the latter's 1-7 range for attributes/skills.

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  2. UnknownMay 30, 2012 at 1:25 AM

    Awesome! Glad you are getting some use out of that book. I get a lot out of my copy every time I look through it.

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