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What licensed setting would [I]you[/I] like to write?

Started by laffingboy, January 14, 2007, 08:41:31 PM

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David R

#15
January 16, 2007, 03:57:05 AM
I know I'm going to get chased out of Dodge, but I'll design a game based on Hill Street Blues. Maybe I'll shop around for an existing system ....maybe I'll try to come up with something new. Oh, and there will be a whole campaign for it - done in the style of The Enemy Within.

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David R

Christmas Ape

#16
January 16, 2007, 04:45:48 AM
Guy Ritchie's English underworld.
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fonkaygarry

#17
January 16, 2007, 05:45:19 AM
Berserk or Michael Mann's HEAT.

Quote from: Christmas ApeGuy Ritchie's English underworld.
:eek:

Incredible.
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mythusmage

#18
January 16, 2007, 06:14:37 AM
Here's another one; Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling. GURPS.
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laffingboy

#19
January 16, 2007, 12:02:35 PM
Quote from: David RI know I'm going to get chased out of Dodge, but I'll design a game based on Hill Street Blues. Maybe I'll shop around for an existing system ....maybe I'll try to come up with something new. Oh, and there will be a whole campaign for it - done in the style of The Enemy Within.

Regards,
David R

I'd play Hill Street Blues in a minute. Dibs on Renko!

I'd like to do a game based on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels. Of existing sytems, GURPS would probably do just fine. It's the adventures that'd be the hard part. I might want to create some kind of system where the PC's actions and deductions have a direct outcome on 'whodunnit'. Maybe multiple solutions, so that any of the suspects can be the guilty party. I don't know how I'd do it.

Holmes fans would be an obvious target audience, but they're a breed who make Star Trek fanboys look positively easygoing about what is and isn't canon. They'd be a hard bunch to please.

Holmes and Watson would probably be best left as an NPCs. Maybe the campaign could center around the adventures of the detective's network of Baker Street Irregulars, handling the cases that Holmes doesn't have the time for (though he'd be available to get the PCs back on track should they wander too far afield).

I'm not sure what I'd call it, though obviously I'd want to get the 'Sherlock Holmes' name on the cover for marketing purposes.
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rcsample

#20
January 16, 2007, 12:10:33 PM
Magnum P.I.

Actually, I'd expand this to something called "The '80's Detective Agency" so that I could incorporate "Simon & Simon", "Remington Steele" "Rockford Files (all right, I'm cheating with that one)", "Wiseguy", "The Equalizer" and maybe even "Moonlighting"...

It would have some detailed rules on how to set up an episodic mystery to solve, blah blah, etc. etc.
 

Christmas Ape

#21
January 16, 2007, 03:16:11 PM
Quote from: fonkaygarry:eek:

Incredible.
Is that a good thing?
Heroism is no more than a chapter in a tale of submission.
"There is a general risk that those who flock together, on the Internet or elsewhere, will end up both confident and wrong [..]. They may even think of their fellow citizens as opponents or adversaries in some kind of 'war'." - Cass R. Sunstein
The internet recognizes only five forms of self-expression: bragging, talking shit, ass kissing, bullshitting, and moaning about how pathetic you are. Combine one with your favorite hobby and get out there!

Geoff Hall

#22
January 17, 2007, 10:38:37 AM
On consideration I think that I'd like to see Dan Dare done as a roleplaying game.  I'm not sure what system I'd use (or if I'd create my own) but ti would need to be something that ephasised a high-action, pulp feel.  Heavy on the science-fiction and adventure, light on the science-fact and realism!
 

JessHartley

#23
January 17, 2007, 11:06:15 AM
I'd love to design a game around Orson Scott Card's "Red Prophet" series (Alvin the Maker, et al.)

I love the integration of native spirituality, hedge magics and knacks, set in the age of American expansion, and the opportunity to meet and interact with Tall Tales legends would be really interesting.
 

David R

#24
January 17, 2007, 11:10:53 AM
Strontium Dogs. I'd want to design this game. But really, the person who should design this game is Sam Peckinpah...

Regards,
David R

flyingmice

#25
January 17, 2007, 12:11:30 PM
Quote from: David RStrontium Dogs. I'd want to design this game. But really, the person who should design this game is Sam Peckinpah...

Regards,
David R

I want to see Strontium Dogs in the Vinyard. That could be fun!

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David R

#26
January 17, 2007, 06:56:52 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceI want to see Strontium Dogs in the Vinyard. That could be fun!

-clash

I would run this...

Regards,
David R

Franklin

#27
January 18, 2007, 05:17:42 AM
English farce in the style of the 'Carry On..' films.

'Carry On Roleplaying', I can see it now.

Thanks
Frank
 

GRIM

#28
January 18, 2007, 12:49:10 PM
New Crobuzon
Sinister Dexter
Nemesis the Warlock/ABC Warriors
Rogue Trooper
Scarlet Traces
Heechee series
Gor (No, I'm not kidding, I think it would be fantastic fun to try and make a game out of that mess).
Barsoom
Humanx Commonwealth
Amtrak Wars
John Courtney Grimwood's two main series of novels.
Peter F Hamilton's Mindstar or Night's Dawn series (I actually had the rights for a year but no company would pick it up).
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flyingmice

#29
January 18, 2007, 01:03:07 PM
Hi Grim:

I think Gateway would make a rockin' setting, but the other Heechee novels not so much...

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