The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes: The Ansa Files

An encyclopedic sourcebook for the classic Planet of the Apes franchise for use to expand the adventures in the official role-playing game!

Bring the cinematic thrills and shocking twists of the five original Planet of the Apes movies to your tabletop game. Now you can interact with the apes and humans that have come directly from the silver screen--Caesar, Taylor, Zira, Hasslein, and, of course, Dr. Zaius--every iconic character is gamified for campaign use with biographies and statistics. This sourcebook showcases a detailed chronology of the distinctly different timeline that arose out of choices made by both human and ape alike.

The ANSA Files are filled with reference resources of the larger-than-life personalities, weapons, and settings from the classic films and novelizations--The Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, and Battle of the Planet of Apes--plus linking material from the novels Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes and Death of the Planet of the Apes! With more than five times the adventure in one place, this sourcebook lets you experience the span of the POTA universe like never before . . .

Andrew E.C. Gaska is the multiple ENnie and UKGE Award-winning lore and adventure writer for Free League Publishing’s Alien Role-Playing Game. He is a narrative director, designer, and science-fiction author with over 20 years of industry experience. Gaska authored the novels Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes and Death of the Planet of the Apes. His other works include Nightfall Game’s The Terminator and Terminator 2 RPGs, Magnetic Press Play’s West End Games Carbon Grey RPG, Buck Rogers, Space:1999, and Choose Your Own Adventure. A former franchise canon consultant for 20th Century Studios for Alien and Planet of the Apes, he also developed and wrote their in-house Predator bible. For 17 years, he was a consultant for Rockstar Games on titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.

E. L. Thomas is a writer and game designer who has worked on numerous treatments, story bibles, and scripts for animation. He has also co-written the adaptation of two Choose Your Own Adventure titles into graphic novels. Thomas is co-creator of the Lion Forge/Oni Press gaming periodical Rolled & Told and has written for Nightfall Games’ SLA Industries and TheTerminator RPG. He is the game design director of Magnetic Press Play’s Carbon Grey RPG.