[List] Popular Franchises As TTRPGs

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 13, 2025, 12:10:43 AM

Quote from: D-ko on March 12, 2025, 10:24:32 PMI've been writing a eulogy and need more time before I get back to this. I haven't forgotten-- just not in a good emotional state to accurately sort and list these.

You're good man, take all of the time you need.

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 13, 2025, 12:24:43 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 07, 2025, 01:43:37 AMFound Note Pad Anon's stuff via the list so suggesting a few more things of his

Bridge Commander is an Evangelion like

Deep Blue Girls is inspired by Kanti-Colection and Azure Lane

Iron Caskets: Steel Glory has a Girls Und Panzer variant

Project Sidewinder Would work for Ace Combat or Project Wingman I'd assume (The later being a clone of the former)

Cruelty Squad The Physical Sensation Edition is an adaption of Cruelty Squad

Danmaku Rhapsody of Spirit Axcelerate is yet another Touhou game (Apparently Jank and getting a remake)

Endless Adventures is based off the Endless series (IE Endless Space, Endless Legend ETC)

Fear and Hunger: Solus in Somnium is based on Fear and Hunger

Stopping here for the adaptations part of the site as they're all obvious thankfully.

There's an official Kantai one, but all I can find of the fan translation is the TTS mod (the link is old and dead and the download doesn't work on IA) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=521711216&searchtext=Kan-colle

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 14, 2025, 03:40:55 AM

Also suggestion, especially given how far down Fate/Lonely Dance is on the page I'd suggest linking right to it rather then the Sprug site https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d3MJzRTYaLx8__TxcjaGWkN9iuJAbKn/view

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 16, 2025, 12:48:58 AM

Touhou with Licensing is weird, Zun allows anyone to make fan works without a cut or the like, now Naratograph he contributed too, but Yuugi Flowers was sold at Comiket or something like that.

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 16, 2025, 01:06:50 AM

https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/fan-rpgs-that-are-better-than-the-officially-licensed-product/ Found another related thread here.

Thornhammer · March 16, 2025, 10:16:18 PM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 07, 2025, 01:43:37 AMFear and Hunger: Solus in Somnium is based on Fear and Hunger

Wow. Imagine seeing that on a convention roster. "Fun for all ages, " they said! Bring the kids!

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 17, 2025, 03:33:10 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 16, 2025, 01:06:50 AMhttps://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/fan-rpgs-that-are-better-than-the-officially-licensed-product/ Found another related thread here.

From the other thread here's Pax Cybertronica a Transformers fan RPG https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1QQvMgA-bJALre4EQ0LdIIvZzM0FresA47On_RpZxVgM/mobilebasic#heading=h.6gk9bloaqfnb

Witch Hunter Siegfried · March 19, 2025, 11:41:08 AM

Btw the instructions for the stranger things D&D adventure is just the quick start rules and not the adventure, also IK Record Lodross War is based on a D&D Basic campaign so that could work for it, or Sword World which has official supliments and a fan translation project.

Edit: completely rewrote the post as I missed Terra Primate already being on the list lol

Zalman · March 19, 2025, 11:45:10 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 19, 2025, 11:41:08 AMPlanet of the Ales

Sounds like a fun planet!

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 12:42:36 AM

Tonight I will catch everything up-- finally got through the grief process. I feel fine now apart from that I really need to get this list caught up.

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 01:20:11 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 05, 2025, 10:24:37 PMNP, forgot to mention, for Phantasmal Land I made fillable character sheets on the IA page if you'd prefer to link that one instead of the archived site https://archive.org/details/touhou-tale-of-phantasmal-land/Touhou%20Tale%20of%20Phantasmal%20Land%20Character%20Sheet/

Made a section for character sheets because it's gonna clutter the main page the way it's set up but archiving character sheets is obviously an important part of this!

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 01:23:48 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 05, 2025, 11:06:30 PMA couple off Data Fortress 2020 (All Cyberpunk 2020 Conversions)

Ghost in the Shell: http://datafortress2020.com/fileproject/details.php?image_id=777

Apple Seed (saw on the list so remind me of this conversion here, found the site originally from Interlock Unlimited) http://datafortress2020.com/fileproject/details.php?image_id=471

these appear to be PDF versions of the ones already listed? unsure if there's any difference or which should be prioritized

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 01:25:17 AM

Quote from: yosemitemike on March 05, 2025, 11:11:39 PMGuardians of Order made a game based on Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai starring Forest Whitaker. It's not really a franchise. Still an odd choice for a licensed rpg. It's the first one I remember seeing where the default style of play was 1 player and 1 gm.

Rare and appreciated.

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 01:31:30 AM

Quote from: Witch Hunter Siegfried on March 06, 2025, 03:11:24 AMAlso for one no one here's probably heard of, Legendaria, it's a play by text RPG (as in that's what it's exclusively built for) inspired by Fate (the series my PFP is from, not the RPG) was told about it by one of the players in my campaign https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/385800/legendaria-core-rulebook-expansions

Also they made a Not-Soul-Eater game too ((Black)Paper Moon is even the name of one of it's opening songs lol) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463519/black-paper-moon

Vindicated just got their 'Spellslingers' back after a huge legal battle that cost the creator his girlfriend.

D-ko · March 21, 2025, 02:25:13 AM

Okay, everything should be accounted for. A few things I need to put way more time than a night into, listed in the new 'notes' section, but I'm going to call this up-to-date now. Whew. And thanks to Jhkim for adding the new 'licensed?' column and being a collaborator in this. It's a dream come true working with a person who inspired what I'm doing in the first place!

Edit: I see a few of the early suggestions were actually never added and I will be double-checking for accuracy later this week since some have been missed.