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How I would do [Whatever] the RPG

Started by Abyssal Maw, July 31, 2007, 12:43:51 PM

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Abyssal Maw

July 31, 2007, 12:43:51 PM
There's some speculation on what license some new Mongoose game or other is picking up, and someone mentioned Star Trek. This is how I'd do it.

(Disclaimer: I kinda hate the later versions of Star Trek, first of all. And I was never part of the fandom. However, I had a girlfriend who was ll up in the TNG fandom around 1994 or so.)

First of all: There are only two versions of Star Trek beyond the original series that I really, really liked:

1) The animated series.
2) The late 70s/early 1980s DC Comic.

So that's how I'd do it. I'd swap all the art out for the animated/and comic artwork or have new artwork commissioned.

I'd make adjustments to de-science it a bit, and strip out all the mushy socialist crap and "making tough decisions" or whatever else. This would totally be a game about exploring new worlds, pwning klingons, kicking the asses of salt vampires, and nailing Orion slave girls. IN THAT ORDER.

Oh yeah, and tribbles. There would totally be tribbles.

How would you do a typical licensed RPG?
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Dr Rotwang!

#1
July 31, 2007, 01:01:54 PM
I just got the animated series, and I've only seen 2 episodes but I'm digging it.  I like your description of a Trek game and send me your newsletter.

How would I do a licensed game, huh?  Man, I dunno...I'd hafta think of a license to acquire, first!
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Dr Rotwang!

#2
July 31, 2007, 01:08:07 PM
I'd do a licensed StarGate SG-1 game in the opposite direction of AEG's project -- overall leaner rules, tactical rules that work but are easy to implement, brownie points for rules-bending action...

...you know, like John Tynes' SG-1 RPG was originally going to be.
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stu2000

#3
July 31, 2007, 01:10:15 PM
If I could license The collected works of Sid and Marty Krofft, and develop a game using Bad Chad Underkoffler's PDQ system, with much of the advice from Zorcerr of Zo, I would distribute it through head shops, in baggies with rolling papers printed with the character's faces, and comic books with their adventures. That would make me sooooooo happy, on so many levels.
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flyingmice

#4
July 31, 2007, 01:13:38 PM
How would I do "Rotwang: The RPG"?

I would start from a random concept generator that could come up with:

The US Supreme Court Justices as Fighting Action Heroes with animal companions

and

The GoGos kicking undead butt in spaaaace!

and

Ancient Egyptian Gods invading earth from space with hordes of rodent slaves

and

Sentient war bots in a nasty love triangle with television reporters

Hilarity ensues.

-clash
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Last Releases: SC4 - Dark Orbital, SC4 - Out of the Ruins,  SC4 - Sabre & World
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David R

#5
July 31, 2007, 01:18:50 PM
I'd take the TV show Werewolf, the movies -  Near Dark, The Warlock, The Prophecy and turn them into d20 World of Darkness

Regards,
David R

stu2000

#6
July 31, 2007, 01:19:14 PM
I would license The Six Million Dollar Man for SpyCraft, print the whole thing on microfiche, and smuggle it to players inside Oscar Goldman figures through E-Bay.

It would be faster than waiting for the new SpyCraft book. (I keed, I keed!) :)
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot

One Horse Town

#7
July 31, 2007, 01:19:25 PM
Gormenghast

Grotesque Dickensian characters laying labyrinthine plots within the endless castle.  

Random castle feature generation. Gallery of the grotesque (a vast array of NPCs that can be met). Wanderers of the stone cathedral (travelling within the castle). Birds.

stu2000

#8
July 31, 2007, 01:23:07 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceHow would I do "Rotwang: The RPG"?

I would start from a random concept generator that could come up with:

The US Supreme Court Justices as Fighting Action Heroes with animal companions

and

The GoGos kicking undead butt in spaaaace!

and

Ancient Egyptian Gods invading earth from space with hordes of rodent slaves

and

Sentient war bots in a nasty love triangle with television reporters

Hilarity ensues.

-clash

I would use unscrupulous means to snag licenses for KISS and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, develop a game (in BESM?) where they're waging a pop-rock battle for the universe, and sell the whole thing to Rotwang for a pittance.

Heh heh heh. Everything's going according to plan . . .
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot

flyingmice

#9
July 31, 2007, 01:37:35 PM
Rotwang: The RPG would of course use Risus as its default system... :D

-clash
clash bowley * Flying Mice Games - an Imprint of Better Mousetrap Games
Flying Mice home page: http://jalan.flyingmice.com/flyingmice.html
Currently Designing: StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire
Last Releases: SC4 - Dark Orbital, SC4 - Out of the Ruins,  SC4 - Sabre & World
Blog: I FLY BY NIGHT

stu2000

#10
July 31, 2007, 01:44:10 PM
I would licence the world of Willie Wonka, where every adventure is a mind-bending frolic through a chocalate fairyland to save the soul of a maladjusted child, and develop the game using Fudge. Not the ruleslite toolkit Fudge, but actual fudge with dice baked inside. So you eat a little, roll a little, eat a little, roll a little. You have to be all hopped up on sugar in order to get a good dice pool.
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot

Abyssal Maw

#11
July 31, 2007, 01:45:37 PM
Quote from: stu2000I would use unscrupulous means to snag licenses for KISS and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, develop a game (in BESM?) where they're waging a pop-rock battle for the universe, and sell the whole thing to Rotwang for a pittance.

Heh heh heh. Everything's going according to plan . . .

There were more than one of those pop-rock adventure shows, wasn't there?

Let's see. Kiss. The Banana Splits. Josie and the Pussycats. Jabberjaw had the same premise. Certain iterations of Scooby Doo had a musical theme. The animated version of the Partridge Family.... the Monkees. Lots of those other Alex Toth adventure-hour style cartoons. The Beatles and Jackson 5 cartoons. Hi-Hi Puffy-Amiyumi is like that...

It seems like an untapped genre with a lot of fun potential.
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stu2000

#12
July 31, 2007, 01:53:17 PM
My favorite was Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Every show had a muscal number that looked like the Midnight Special. Holy Crap--I bet someone could have that license for a song! For SpyCraft, Terra Primate--or both!!

Every kids' show between say--69 and 76--had some kind of musical variation. Rock & Roll teens who drive around and solve mysteries and stuff. It would be interesting to devise a mechanic for this, using an Ipod Shuffle. Instead of a dice pool, you get a number of chances to hit a song that illustrates, or appropriately accompanies, what you want to do in game. :)
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot

Dr Rotwang!

#13
July 31, 2007, 01:57:37 PM
Quote from: stu2000I would use unscrupulous means to snag licenses for KISS and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, develop a game (in BESM?) where they're waging a pop-rock battle for the universe, and sell the whole thing to Rotwang for a pittance.

Heh heh heh. Everything's going according to plan . . .
Doc Rotwang! is a New Wave/Sythpop man.

Everything else is for other people.

'Cept Rush.

Rush rules.
Dr Rotwang!
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stu2000

#14
July 31, 2007, 02:02:40 PM
Thomas Dolby has fallen to the dark side! it's up to DEVO and their swashbuckling space-pirate pal, Adam Ant to stop him and his army of Europop Synthe-drones!! Vehicles furnished by Gary Numan--

First scenario-the Plasmatics has driven a flaming school bus through a wall of TVs, into the mall. Molly Ringwald and Emilio Esteves are trapped!! Can you get there in time??!!


*Rush is Airwolf.*
Employment Counselor: So what do you like to do outside of work?
Oblivious Gamer: I like to play games: wargames, role-playing games.
EC: My cousin killed himself because of role-playing games.
OG: Jesus, what was he playing? Rifts?
--Fear the Boot
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