Check out this ad for the #TTRPG Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, based on the Twilight 2000 system. Cadillacs & Dinosaurs was based on Xenozoic Tales, a comic book by Mark Schultz. Although the comic only lasted 14 issues, it spawned a bunch of spin-off products. This ad from Dungeon Magazine 29 (1991). - ThreadSky

wobblerocket.com • 104 days ago

Check out this ad for the #TTRPG Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, based on the Twilight 2000 system.

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs was based on Xenozoic Tales, a comic book by Mark Schultz. Although the comic only lasted 14 issues, it spawned a bunch of spin-off products.

This ad from Dungeon Magazine 29 (1991).

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jlaakso.bsky.social•96 days ago

Haven’t read the game but that doesn’t initially sound like a great system match… Maybe not as bad as my RIFTS on Millennium’s End hack, but up there

truetimetraveler.bsky.social•96 days ago

Having both of those games, I can I am impressed because the mechanics of Millennium's End were fantastic in the day (as I recall at least) and makes sense as a mechanical replacement for the clunky Rifts rules.

qstor2.bsky.social•104 days ago

Nice never played that GDW game but liked the comic

bashman.bsky.social•88 days ago

I've been watching a lot of cartoon series on Tubi as I am preparing for an Animate Action Adventures supplement for BASH! Ultimate Edition, and this show was one of the ones I started on. Very interesting, especially how they approach combat. I wonder how that matched the comics?

ggz.bsky.social•89 days ago

I have hardback collections of the comics, and have run the game once maybe 15 years ago. It's a pretty traditional game, no issues running it, but nowadays I'd probably adapt to another system - Savage Worlds seems an obvious choice for pulp action!

wobblerocket.com•89 days ago

Yeah, I was thinking this setting would fit really well with Savage Worlds.

ggz.bsky.social•89 days ago

SW is not my go-to system, but I ran a great Flash Gordon campaign using it, and this comic is right in its wheelhouse.

saltheart.bsky.social•104 days ago

I've got the RPG game around here somewhere.

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

I'd love to see photos if you can find it!

saltheart.bsky.social•104 days ago

Great setting for an RPG... Great artist! @xenozoicxenophiles.bsky.social

jdrakeh.bsky.social•96 days ago

I love the setting, but booooooy was that an awkward system for pulp adventure.

saltheart.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yeah, totally needs a new treatment... Would love to try my hand at it should the author ever be ready for another licensed RPG.

jeffrywith1e.bsky.social•85 days ago

A Cadillacs & Dinosaurs supplement for the current Twilight 2000 RPG! (maybe a little more streamlined like the Blade Runner RPG by the same publisher).

jdrakeh.bsky.social•96 days ago

I have a few dollars in customer credit over at DriveThruRPG and your reply here reminded me that I have Burn in my wish list. I think I'll go pick it up! (I loooooooove the cover art!)

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs got a short-lived cartoon show. You can check out the first episode here:

The show ran for 13 episodes between 1993 and 1994.

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

Huh. That was supposed to be a video link. Let's try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJUNueFjr8

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

To tie-in with the cartoon show, Capcom produced a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs beat-em-up arcade game in 1993, with up to 3 players.

It looks like it played similar to other '90s Capcom beat-em-ups like Final Fight.

#capcom #arcadegames #retrogames

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

A second game, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm was released for Sega CD.

Instead of a beat-em-up, this was an on-rails shooter. This one wasn't very well-received, selling only about 8000 copies.

#sega #retrogames

wobblerocket.com•104 days ago

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs even got a pretty cool action figure toy line.

TTRPGs, cartoon shows, videogames, and action figures.

Not bad for a 14-issue comic.

#actionfigures

paulbaldowski.bsky.social•104 days ago

And that #TTRPG took advantage of all that lovely comic art, of course.

gurbintroll.bsky.social•91 days ago

I always thought this was the best of the '90s Capcom beat-em-ups.

Well, this or Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom.

kustenjaeger.bsky.social•94 days ago

I think I hung onto the TTRPG for nostalgia reasons.

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