History TabletopGame / TerraPrimate

''Terra Primate'' is a roleplaying game by ''Eden Studios Inc'', the makers of the ''UsefulNotes/{{Unisystem}}''.

* MagicAmpersand: ''Simians and Sorcerers'' is a nod to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* MagicAmpersand: ''Simians and Sorcerers" is a nod to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The whole reason for creating the game.
** KillerSpaceMonkey: For when things aren't better with apes... which is often. They can even come directly from outer space.

''Terra Primate'' is a roleplaying game by ''Eden Studios Inc'', the makers of the ''{{Unisystem}}''.

!!This game includes examples of:

* Dominant Species: Directly inspired by the Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes series, an Iron Age setting in which intelligent, but bestial, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutangs rule a world in which man are little more than Stone Age savages.

* Majestic Apes: A medieval setting in which intelligent gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutangs form the ruling castes over a caste of equally-intelligent but socially inferior human serfs.

* ScienceMarchesOn: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded Trope]]. A deliberate comment is made early in the start of the book that Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes was quite mistaken about its ape roles and that we know now from our studies of primates that something like chimpanzees as soldiers, gorillas as lawmakers and orangutans as "hippy-stand-ins" would be more accurate. It goes on to use them in much the same way as ''Planet of the Apes'' did because, well, it's classic. [invoked]

* ScienceMarchesOn: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded Trope]]. A deliberate comment is made early in the start of the book that Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes was quite mistaken about its ape roles and that we know now from our studies of primates that something like chimpanzees as soldiers, gorillas as lawmakers and orangutans as "hippy-stand-ins" would be more accurate. It goes on to use them in much the same way as ''Planet of the Apes'' did because, well, it's classic.

* FantasticRacism: Built into many of the sample settings, in homage to ''Planet Of The Apes''. Invasion of the Apes also has prejudice against the intelligent gibbons among their own world, and discusses the possibilities for inter-ape prejudices in the rules.

* ShoutOut: All over the place. The Ape Man archetype is clearly one to ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'', the Savage Girl archetype is somewhere between a DistaffCounterpart to the Ape Man and a shoutout to the female protagonist of ''One Million BC'', the Astronaught is clearly derived from the recurring main characters of PFranchise/lanetOfTheApes...

** Apeopolis is a clear shoutout to Gorilla City from ''TheFlash''; the only thing lacking is that the Gorillas in Apeopolis don't have psychic powers.
* ScienceMarchesOn: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded Trope]]. A deliberate comment is made early in the start of the book that Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes was quite mistaken about its ape roles and that we know now from our studies of primates that something like chimpanzees as soldiers, gorillas as lawmakers and orangutans as "hippy-stand-ins" would be more accurate. it goes on to use them in much the same way as ''Planet Of The Apes'' did because, well, it's classic.
* TechLevels: Social tech levels are given at the end of chapter five in the list of Stone Age, Iron Age, Gunpowder Age, Steam Age, Space Age, and Future Age. The classic ''Planet Of The Apes'' film is noted as being a weird mix of Iron and Steam Age tech, combining rifle-like guns with no other apparent higher forms of tech.

* ShoutOut: All over the place. The Ape Man archetype is clearly one to ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'', the Savage Girl archetype is somewhere between a DistaffCounterpart to the Ape Man and a shoutout to the female protagonist of ''One Million BC'', the Astronaught is clearly derived from the recurring main characters of PlanetOfTheApes...

* ScienceMarchesOn: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded Trope]]. A deliberate comment is made early in the start of the book that PlanetOfTheApes was quite mistaken about its ape roles and that we know now from our studies of primates that something like chimpanzees as soldiers, gorillas as lawmakers and orangutans as "hippy-stand-ins" would be more accurate. it goes on to use them in much the same way as ''Planet Of The Apes'' did because, well, it's classic.

* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles share the planet with apes in Primal Apes. Handwaved because it's an alien, parallel Earth, not our own world.

Published in 2002, ''Terra Primate'' is similar to [=AFMBE=] in that it is an "open setting" RPG, relying on a key concept for [=GMs=] to build their own game worlds around. In contrast to All Flesh Must Be Eaten, which revolves around zombies, Terra Primate revolves around the concept of man interacting with intelligent apes -- ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' is a major inspiration to the game.

''Terra Primate'' is a roleplaying game by ''Eden Studios Inc'', the makers of the ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'' SurvivalHorror roleplaying game, as well as the licensed {{Role Playing Game}}s for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', and ''Franchise/EvilDead'' (under the title of ''[[EnsembleDarkhorse Army of Darkness]]'').