Blowing Up the Movies

Blowing Up the Movies at a Glance

• Use 24 action movies to help build your Feng Shui adventures…or with any other action/adventure RPG.
• Sample movies range from popular classics to obscure new titles to discover and enjoy.
• Written by game designer extraordinaire and cinema aficionado Robin D. Laws.

Cinematic Exploration: More about Blowing Up the Movies

Feng Shui is an action movie RPG, so it only makes sense to take game inspiration from specific movies. Designer Robin D. Laws explains how to do exactly that in this volume dedicated to exploring how to use techniques from films to build stories in Feng Shui or any other action RPG.

Explore 24 movies — some popular, some obscure cult classics — and learn how to utilize their stories to improve your game sessions. Discover how Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon uses fight scenes to express inner conflict or how Star Wars is a model of storytelling economy.

Movie magic awaits you in Blowing Up the Movies!