Animorphs RPG - A Tabletop Role-Playing Game for Animorphs Fans

Hmm. Good point. I would say that what would make the most sense is to pick a location all the players feel confident they can get the gist of by looking at Wikipedia and Google Maps, somewhere in the U.S. that isn't rural Alaska or New York, NY. Since there are tons of movies and shows set in southern California and most U.S. media are based there, it might make sense just to circle back around to setting the game there. But Miami, Honolulu, Philadelphia, and Boston also have a ton of information on the internet and are the setting for a lot of U.S. media, so maybe one of those would work too.

Thank you!  That is part of the reason I set the game to pick up after the events of #5 by default, since that way anyone new to the series wouldn’t have to read 60-odd books’ worth of background material just to start playing.  It’d be hard to do a game with an Ellimist who doesn’t know the full series, but hopefully the players would only need books #1 - #5 to break in.  I play D&D with both of my siblings, and I doubt I’ll be able to throw this one at them anytime soon.

Thank you for the feedback!  A few points of clarification:

1. All modifiers (+3 to Blend, -7 to Self-Control, etc.) are modifiers for the result of a roll, not modifiers for the target of a roll.  Therefore, there will probably be a fair number of rolls outside of the range of 3 - 18.  (Example: rolling Blend +6 and getting a result of 13 means that your total Blend result will be 19.)  However, anything above 20 should be treated as 20 and anything below 1 should be treated as 1, to avoid successes/failures becoming ridiculously extreme.  I mention this briefly in the well-buried General RPG Rules somewhere, but I should definitely clarify it in order to minimize confusion.

2. For Blend rolls where one is morphed as a human, I figured that the modifiers could stack up with normal Blend + character modifiers + human morph modifiers.  So Tobias would be required to roll Blend any time he’s interacting with a human (because human is not his base shape) but would get a +5 bonus to his rolls (because human was his base shape for 13 years) and would get an additional -2 if in the presence of especially striking tastes or smells.  So the player using Tobias would roll Blend, add 3 to the result of the Blend roll, and go from there.  Ax would also be required to roll Blend any time he’s interacting with a human, but would get no bonuses, and would be at a -2 in the presence of food or strong scents.  On a failed Blend check for either of these characters, any civilian observers would assume that this kid is out of control and needs help, while any controller observers would assume that this kid is an andalite in morph.