Masterbook

You have some base abilities, but then you switch abilities out as you go world to world.

Interesting enough, the world of Tales from the Crypt, the old one by West End Games, which is part of the Masterbook series, based on the HBO Tales from the Crypt show.

So that role-playing game has a very similar mechanic for the campaign version of that game.

That game can be run as one-shots or a campaign.

And of course, I can't fail to mention that there actually was a Necroscope RPG.

West End Games produced a small World of the Necroscope line for their Masterbook system.

Masterbook, if I remember correctly, was an attempt to create a generic system by generalizing the system of Torg, which I was reminded when looking this stuff up today was also the system of Shatterzone, a game I haven't thought about in 30 years.

Anyway, this was, like I say, in the mid-1990s.

They did various tie-ins for Masterbook, a lot of which, not all, but a lot of which were, like, licensed media properties.

Um, so they did Indiana Jones, Species, like the Natasha Henstridge movie, uh, Tales from the Crypt, and Tank Girl, as well as Necroscope.

I, I kinda wanna check out that Tales from the Crypt game.