A planet where apes evolved from men?
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About the Project
I will be running a short campaign for the new Planet of the Apes roleplaying game from Magnetic Press. I'm an enthusiastic fan of the franchise so I backed the crowdfunding campaign nearly whole-hog, which included some surprisingly nice looking miniatures that I didn't give myself nearly enough time to paint...
Related Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
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The crowdfunding campaign for the new Roleplaying Game of the Planet of the Apes included a nice set of miniatures that I’d like to use in the game, which I’ll be running shortly. I don’t think you need to use miniatures for every little thing when playing a RPG, but they can be useful when playing out combat or other scenes where each character’s position is important.
We’ll be using pre-generated player characters for the game, all of whom are more-or-less represented among the models, along with some (but annoyingly, not all) of the campaign’s antagonists.
The catch is that we’re starting in less than a week, so there’s no way I’ll have all of these done in time. I’m going to prioritize the player characters for this week, and work on getting the rest done over the coming weeks as I need them for the game. In the mean time, I’ve got a fair amount of Apes-compatible models from Star Schlock and Crooked Dice that I can use, as long as the scale works out…
The two on the left are Star Schlock, the two in the middle are Crooked Dice, and the two on the right are the Magnetic Press models. The Star Schlock gorillas are a lot more burly, and the Crooked Dice ones are a bit smaller. I think Star Schlock is a better match, and I have more of them, so they'll probably work better for the first session, and to fill in crowd scenes later on (the RPG only comes with six gorilla models, one if which will be needed as a player character).
What is the collective noun for a group of Doctor Zaiuses? Similar to the gorillas, Star Schlock is a lot burlier and Magnetic Press is a little taller, leaving the Crooked Dice model looking a little on the small side but still useable if I need it.
The two on the left are both Star Schlock. The RPG campaign features a few different factions of mutants, including the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout that we see in the second film, so I may need to dig deeper for more mutant characters.
The painted ones here are both Crooked Dice. I think the scale lines up pretty well, and anyway there's only one astronaut character in the RPG campaign, plus an NPC who only features in the first chapter of the campaign.The first session involves a jailbreak that I’ll want to have miniatures for, so hopefully I’ll at least have the player characters ready in time — I can substitute the Star Schlock gorillas for the prison guards, and a smaller Crooked Dice models will work fine for the NPC prisoners. If I need more primitive humans I can dip into my fairly large collection of Savage Core stuff…
