# Tarzan RPG (books and dice version)

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 3, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-rpg-books-and-dice-version/447901 "2008-05-03T16:36:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-rpg-books-and-dice-version/447901/1 "2008-05-03T16:36:47Z")

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Does anyone know if there has ever been a role-playing game based on the Tarzan books? Particularly a table-top version with books, maps, and dice? If not, and you were to make one up, what would you call it? Obviously “Tarzan” is a possibility, but there might be a more creative name.

FTR, I have no intention of creating one, but I’m in the middle of a writing project where I have some kids playing _Call of Cthulhu_, but since it is set in Africa I thought it would be a nice irony if they were playing one based on Tarzan – I mean, here you have kids actually IN Africa, and they’re huddled up in an air-conditioned apartment pretending to have an African adventure… 😉

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**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-rpg-books-and-dice-version/447901/2 "2008-05-03T22:26:22Z")

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I searched my brain for one and couldn’t think of any. As far as I know there has not. There have been a few pulp adventure RPG’s which have as part of it a pseudo-Tarzan but nothing licensed.

But if you’re writing it, why not make it up?