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While Cortex might not have been able to take advantage, its successor, Cortex Plus, was developed to do just that.Ĭortex Plus developed into three streams – Cortex Plus Drama, focusing on the relationships between characters Cortex Plus Action, looked at what the characters did and Cortex Plus Heroic, which combined the Drama and the Action. The intent is to tell stories, not chop down opponents. Gaming has seen a movement to expand towards a more narrative-driven focus, moving away from the hobby’s wargaming background. However, not all settings focus on action. Adding setting-specific rules, such as details about the Cylons, builds on top of the existing core rules, allowing for specialization.Ĭortex worked well for settings that focused on action. Skill lists can be modified by setting where Pilot would be a given for a Colonial Warrior to have in Battlestar Galactica, a group of hunters in Supernatural might just have the one character who can fly a small plane. Players roll the dice from appropriate attribute, skill, and, if any, trait against a difficulty number set by the GM, modified by dice from the character’s applicable complications, again, if any.
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The core mechanic involves using dice – the full range of regular polyhedrons – for attributes, skills, traits, and complications.
What helped Cortex be flexible enough for the range of adapted works is its simplicity. Supernatural also had rules for creating the supernatural and exploiting their weaknesses.
Demon Hunters added rules for creating demons and spending plot points to summon the Purple Ninja. Serenity and Battlestar Galactica had rules for starships, with Galactica having expanded rules for dogfighting in space. Each release added rules needed for the setting. Supernatural placed the focus on the players being a small group of supernatural hunters that banded together. Demon Hunters focused on comedy, with additional writing from Dead Gentlemen contributors and bonus orientation DVD. Battlestar Galactica focused on survival in an environment that is inherently deadly, with the push to find the lost planet, Earth. The Serenity RPG presents the game in terms of the players being the crew of their own small ship trying to make a living while staying true to themselves. While there are games where the mechanics were written to support the tone of the game, a more generic system can be adapted to the desired result. Supernatural is the story of the Winchester brothers fighting against destiny, Hell, and Heaven.įortunately, game mechanics don’t always set the tone. Battlestar Galactica showed the last of humanity escaping a relentless enemy intent on exterminating every last human. Serenity, the movie, was based around a government cover-up that affected one of the core characters.
At the same time, each of the original works has its own tone. All four original works have a devoted fan base, one that is likely to play RPGs. Demon Hunters and Supernatural both deal with supernatural threats. Both Serenity and Battlestar Galactica are science fiction set far from Earth and have characters who spend much of their time in spaceships. The works adapted share some common features. A stand-alone version of the Cortex rules, the Cortex System Role Playing Game, came out in 2008, after Serenity, Battlestar Galactica, and Demon Hunters had been released.
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Since then, the Cortex system was refined and was used as the base for a number of licensed games published by Margaret Weis Productions – Serenity, based on the movie* Battlestar Galactica, based on the rebooted series Demon Hunters, based on videos by Dead Gentlemen Productions and Supernatural, based on the CW TV series. The Cortex system debuted in its early form with the Sovereign Stone Game System, which was based on Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Sovereign Stone novels. RPGs need to keep that flexibility and allow for new characters with similar capabilities as existing ones. At the same time, if players want, they can still take the roles of the existing characters. Even the Buffy RPG could delve into both past and future, allowing players to take up the mantle of the Slayer in a different time. This is the case in three previous game adaptations examined, Star Trek, Star Wars, and 007, where players can take on similar roles as the main characters in both franchises. The ideal works to adapt as tabletop role-playing games provide a larger setting, one where the original provides for a larger setting than what the main characters there experience. This time around, multiple original works are being adapted into just one game system, the Cortex and its successor, Cortex Plus. In previous examinations of works adapted to gaming, Lost in Translation focused on just one original work being turned into a game.
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