[List] Popular Franchises As TTRPGs

jhkim · February 13, 2025, 02:25:12 PM

Quote from: D-ko on February 13, 2025, 01:34:00 PMJhkim, holy shit... you run this site? I feel like I owe you something. What a masterful list you have there.

https://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/

Yeah, that's me. It hasn't been updated in years, though. Partly, the number of new RPGs each year has exploded since 2018 - what with all the Kickstarters and such.

D-ko, do you know how to do DMs (direct messages) on therpgsite yet? If so, DM me and I'll give you my email or a Dropbox link.

D-ko · February 13, 2025, 07:24:50 PM

Agreed. This list got dropped around that time period partially because of that and I'm crazy enough to slowly take it back on. Congrats on your work-- it serves as a far better list than probably anything else including the usual wikis and such.

Let's try this. Download the following attachment and then just erase the '.PDF' portion. It should work, provided you have Excel. Let me know. Unfortunately, I'm continually adding and erasing. I can drop both when I do a monthly drop though. All this info isn't really copyrightable or anything so you're welcome to do what you want with it. I'm actually interested in getting you info for your site now. Our goals aren't terrible different here and that's interesting.

jhkim · February 13, 2025, 07:38:55 PM

Cool. If you don't mind, I have put it up in Google Sheets.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15nINmu3LA0Y8AlX7Eyy3a4Ma9wg9F97J04VaZEgfPW8/edit?gid=484538647

This is world-viewable and editable, and people can comment with their suggested additions or corrections. It's similar to what Ocule did with his "Consumer's Guide to RPGs" that is stickied in the top of this forum.

I'll take it down if you don't like that, though.

D-ko · February 13, 2025, 07:46:49 PM

That's fine. I'll pull from it and compare it against my own before a monthly drop. That should actually work fine. I appreciate you doing that. Merging all the data might get a tad tricky but all least it will all exist and Excel/Sheets is way better for data merging than other methods so that works out.

Wow, that does look nice and it's far more responsive than I remember Sheets being. Maybe you'll convert me. Maybe.

jhkim · February 14, 2025, 01:51:38 AM

Quote from: D-ko on February 13, 2025, 07:46:49 PMWow, that does look nice and it's far more responsive than I remember Sheets being. Maybe you'll convert me. Maybe.

I'm going to push a little more, and suggest you give editing in Sheets a try to decide.

I can give you edit access to that doc.

I know Excel is better at other things, but the selling point for me was collaborative editing and versioning. Multiple people can update that doc, and anyone always links to the latest, while still being able to access earlier versions and see what edits people made.

blackstone · February 14, 2025, 11:12:35 AM

Quote from: Cathode Ray on February 12, 2025, 02:54:50 PMSome of these are novelties, but Wendys: Feast of Legends is a very solid game system. This is not a knock at other novelty franchises.

OMG! I totally forgot about that one! It's a crazy fun playable RPG.

blackstone · February 14, 2025, 11:16:21 AM

missing from list:

Doctor Who RPG done in the 80s by FASA.
James Bond was done in the 80s by Avalon Hill (I think).
Judge Dredd was done in the 80s by Games Workshop.

jhkim · February 14, 2025, 12:29:37 PM

Quote from: blackstone on February 14, 2025, 11:16:21 AMmissing from list:

Doctor Who RPG done in the 80s by FASA.
James Bond was done in the 80s by Avalon Hill (I think).
Judge Dredd was done in the 80s by Games Workshop.

Noted. I added those into the online list.

D-ko · February 14, 2025, 03:21:05 PM

Quote from: jhkim on February 14, 2025, 01:51:38 AM
Quote from: D-ko on February 13, 2025, 07:46:49 PMWow, that does look nice and it's far more responsive than I remember Sheets being. Maybe you'll convert me. Maybe.

I'm going to push a little more, and suggest you give editing in Sheets a try to decide. I can give you edit access to that doc.

I know Excel is better at other things, but the selling point for me was collaborative editing and versioning. Multiple people can update that doc, and anyone always links to the latest, while still being able to access earlier versions and see what edits people made.

Does Sheets export as PDF without issue? I like hard copies. The edit history could prove useful, for sure too.

Quote from: blackstone on February 14, 2025, 11:12:35 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on February 12, 2025, 02:54:50 PMSome of these are novelties, but Wendys: Feast of Legends is a very solid game system. This is not a knock at other novelty franchises.

OMG! I totally forgot about that one! It's a crazy fun playable RPG.

I'd love to find a working link for it that doesn't feel spammy. Archive.org has it but I don't know how the moderators here feel about direct-linking unlicensed mass-archiving sites.

D-ko · February 14, 2025, 03:24:56 PM

Judge Dredd 2000 link is already non-functional. Not sure what happened there. Also, Princess Bride is spelled bridge. That's my bad. That RPG has a weird history but it did exist for a brief moment. Used copies going for $75+ right now.

And apparently Warcraft and WoW had tabletop RPGs... 2003/2005. In fact, I'm having a vague recollection of Diablo or something having an official d20 system but I'll need to refresh my memory on that.

Ah, here it is. https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Diablo-d20

And of course the D&D cartoon had an official d20 mini-pdf themed around the characters.

Witch Hunter Siegfried · February 15, 2025, 08:52:05 PM

Quote from: blackstone on February 14, 2025, 11:16:21 AMmissing from list:

Doctor Who RPG done in the 80s by FASA.
James Bond was done in the 80s by Avalon Hill (I think).
Judge Dredd was done in the 80s by Games Workshop.

So I've heard that Judge Dredd is impossible to find, there's no scans or anything

Witch Hunter Siegfried · February 15, 2025, 08:52:42 PM

Quote from: D-ko on February 14, 2025, 03:24:56 PMJudge Dredd 2000 link is already non-functional. Not sure what happened there. Also, Princess Bride is spelled bridge. That's my bad. That RPG has a weird history but it did exist for a brief moment. Used copies going for $75+ right now.

And apparently Warcraft and WoW had tabletop RPGs... 2003/2005. In fact, I'm having a vague recollection of Diablo or something having an official d20 system but I'll need to refresh my memory on that.

Ah, here it is. https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Diablo-d20

And of course the D&D cartoon had an official d20 mini-pdf themed around the characters.

Edit: Calorum link not working... and it's to a Google Docs page. Well that's odd.

The Warcraft (pre WOW) one was a 3X thing, I think by WOTC themselves

D-ko · February 15, 2025, 09:34:43 PM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on February 15, 2025, 08:52:05 PM
Quote from: blackstone on February 14, 2025, 11:16:21 AMmissing from list:

Doctor Who RPG done in the 80s by FASA.
James Bond was done in the 80s by Avalon Hill (I think).
Judge Dredd was done in the 80s by Games Workshop.

So I've heard that Judge Dredd is impossible to find, there's no scans or anything

Judge Dredd RPG (GW) - Game Masters Book is the corebook? Because it's floating around on the surface.

Edit: Ah, I see that it's not.

D-ko · February 17, 2025, 10:06:47 PM

@jhkim, check your PMs. Let's get things rolling. It's going to be too much of a hassle trying to maintain two lists, so I'd like to team up. Just have to agree on formatting and figure out why Sheets doesn't like linking certain valid links (?).

D-ko · February 18, 2025, 01:08:57 AM

https://sidekick.evilgeniusgames.com/store-library/the-agency-files

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