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Hot Tub Time Machine RPG style!

Started by Jaeger, July 09, 2021, 06:30:15 PM

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Jaeger

July 09, 2021, 06:30:15 PM
So how about some speculative nonsense...

You have a laptop with all the RPG pdf files you want, and a suitcase full of a million dollars' worth of the currency for the year you will jump back to.

You can go back to any year from 1980 to 1995... 

Where do you go back to, and how do you change RPG history...

For me? Plan A:

Set aside a few hundred grand to defend the incoming lawsuit from TSR. Winning the 'you can't patent rules only wording' judgement will be expensive.

1980. Go hard at TSR with my competing fantasy RPG "insert catchy name here"

Is would be an Ascending AC, modern take on OSR/D20 systems with a 'classic fantasy' Tolkienesque setting. With as close to 2020 production values as I can get.

And as I have 3 decades worth of pdf's of what is considered the best modules, adventure paths, and sourcebooks, so mining them for gold content will keep me busy for a while.

I'd also put out:
A Culthulu rpg, using the public domain works of Lovecraft.
A Sci-Fi RPG: a StarWars/Firefly game with the serial numbers filled off.
A Post-Apocalyptic RPG: A cross of Fallout and MadMax.

All using the same underlying system as the fantasy RPG.

IMHO it will be a long haul; to go against TSR/D&D but a fun one – and a bit unfair as I will have the benefit of knowing the future. Especially the times when D&D is badly managed.

And if I ever find myself in a position of market dominance, I'm absolutely doing an OGL to etch that achievement in stone.

Although I suspect if I even get something near market parity, doing an OGL before the 3e era could only work in my favor.

I don't know if beating out D&D will be possible, but I would have fun trying...
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Svenhelgrim

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July 09, 2021, 08:03:34 PM
This might sound kind of lame, but I don't think I could rob RPG gamers by swiping the ideas of the best creators in gaming.  Like I don't think I could publish DCC, or Cyberpunk, or Warhammer Fantasy in 1981, and live with myself.  Same for all the suppliments and modules.  Those people's works endure today because of the hard work they did. 

Tell you what though, investing that $million and setting myself up to be a manor shareholder at Hazards of the Bro, might help me migitate some of the damage.  I just hope the gobs of cash that I got wouldn't corrupt my vision.
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