What book, movie, comic, computer game or TV series would you want to see an RPG about, that has never had one?
RPGPundit
Oh man lots of stuff. Porco Rosso, Gundam (to be specific Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team), Gunsmith Cats, Cowboy Bebop, Blade Runner, and British Crime dramas in general (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, Layer Cake, Get Carter (the original), and Ganster No.1 to name a few examples)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8idvQeM0kA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1GbLiPcBM&feature=related
Regards,
David R
Quote from: David R;289998http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8idvQeM0kA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1GbLiPcBM&feature=related
Regards,
David R
I can get behind an Alien Nation game. The movie and teh series were faves back in the day.
Factotum (http://www.amazon.com/Factotum-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0876852630)
Quote from: Ronin;289999I can get behind an Alien Nation game. The movie and teh series were faves back in the day.
Alien Nation was indeed a cool movie TV series (and would make a cool RPG - think of the possibilities...) but I can't help liking
Otherworld. It's kinda of multigenre and 80's chicks seem hotter (which really has nothing to with the topic, but always worth mentioning, IMO)
Edit: You mean this : http://www.therpgsite.com/showpost.php?p=249014&postcount=3 , right, droog ? Ok, ok...the Matt Dillon movie of the Bukowski novel is cool, too : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFT5RNW47I&feature=related
Regards,
David R
Sherlock Fucking Holmes!
Quote from: Nihilistic Mind;290010Sherlock Fucking Holmes!
This game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Consulting_Detective) came very very close to being a Holmes RPG. Honestly you could probably use the cases therein as game campaigns.
The Death Gate Cycle.
Alan Dean Fosters' Commonwealth (Pip and Flinx)
Terry Brooks Shannara/*Running with the Demon universe (If done right)
Robert Asprins' Mythverse.
* Read the hints he drops. :D
None really.
What I would like is for some of the ones who already got a RPG treatment that turned out to be shite to get a second chance.
Quote from: Narf the Mouse;290013Alan Dean Fosters' Commonwealth (Pip and Flinx)
Didn't GURPS already come out with a sourcebook for this a while ago?
GURPS: Humanx or something?
Quote from: jeff37923;290018Didn't GURPS already come out with a sourcebook for this a while ago? GURPS: Humanx or something?
Dunno - I don't follow GURPS. How good was it?
Quote from: Edsan;290017None really.
What I would like is for some of the ones who already got a RPG treatment that turned out to be shite to get a second chance.
Yes. Yes, since half of the time they are company killing pieces of shit.
I'd love to see
Mongoose Traveller sourcebooks for Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Larry Niven's Known Space, and Jerry Pournelle's CoDominion.
Quote from: Narf the Mouse;290020Dunno - I don't follow GURPS. How good was it?
Not sure. Here's a link to it. (http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Humanx/)
Quote from: jeff37923;290022Not sure. Here's a link to it. (http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Humanx/)
Sounds tempting...
Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, a Hellboy game that wasn't GURPS, Heroes, and I'll second Mongoose Traveller Firefly (I'm gonna try and put something like that together myself when this semester's over).
Oh, and Push wasn't that great of a movie, but I bet it would make an awesome RPG.
Maybe that Stephen Brust stuff, or the Malazan stuff.
I wouldn't buy it, but it would make an awful lot of folk happy.
Otherwise, Law and Order, as a traditional rpg and not a Forge one.
Quote from: J Arcane;290012This game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Consulting_Detective) came very very close to being a Holmes RPG. Honestly you could probably use the cases therein as game campaigns.
Thanks! I'll look into it!
A bubble gummy rules light G.I. Joe RPG box set would be nice. It makes way too much sense to ever happen. A Hasbro license with a movie coming out soon.
The Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg.
Quote from: Drohem;290099The Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg.
YES.
Regards,
David R
A Gaean Reach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaean_Reach) RPG.
-clash
I'd like to see one for the Temeraire series (http://www.temeraire.org/index.cgi) because that's what I'm playing now.
I'm not sure I'd play them, but for the good of the hobby, I'd like to see some RPGs based on popular kids series: a solid fantasy RPG of Harry Potter, and an edgy White-Wolf-like RPG of Twilight.
I want Tales of New Crobuzon, but it's looking like vapourware.
Diskwourld: The Arrh-Pee-Gee
I wouldn't mind seeing a game based on the Supernatural television show. There may even be one coming out, but I can't remember if that was wishful thinking or now. I just like the show and think it'd make a fun setting.
I love the setting for Bladerunner too. Movie, book.... whichever. Cyberpunk sorta came close, but not quite. A dying earth. Off-world colonies. Radiation fallout every day. Weird animal cloning cults and odd religions. Over-bearing corporations. Androids. Sure, there's plenty of games that stole a shit-ton of ideas out of Bladerunner (in addition to many other books by Phillip K. Dick and stuff).
The Neo-Tokyo in Akira might be fun if all the PCs made one biker gang. Well, it'd by a hyper-specialized game in that regard. This IS a wish-list, so reality isn't needed here. So shhhh.
;)
-=Grim=-
Quote from: GrimJesta;290190The Neo-Tokyo in Akira might be fun if all the PCs made one biker gang. Well, it'd by a hyper-specialized game in that regard. This IS a wish-list, so reality isn't needed here. So shhhh.
;)
-=Grim=-
An Akira game based on the manga, and minus the uber-psychics (there are a lot of lower level psychics that shouldn't be such a problem... pretty much everybody but kaneda, akira, and the three kids...) would be really freaking awesome. There might be separate setting write ups for pre and post destruction tokyo for that too.
Quote from: RPGPundit;289991What book, movie, comic, computer game or TV series would you want to see an RPG about, that has never had one?
RPGPundit
I've said a version of this in various other threads :
"LOST". You might not be able to get that exactly ...but something that gets the whacky /over-the-topness of it all in a role playing game would be fun.
That show is best looked at as an RPG campaign that was meant to be a one-off , except the players begged the GM to turn it into a campaign. The tail section survivors was a back up campaign group that merged with the main bunch . The "others" and DHARMA initiative plots was nortes from an older campaign that ghot re-booted and re-used in the present campaign. (I've done a more complete version of this monologue before and at the store....)
- Ed C.
Quote from: beejazz;290284An Akira game based on the manga, and minus the uber-psychics (there are a lot of lower level psychics that shouldn't be such a problem... pretty much everybody but kaneda, akira, and the three kids...) would be really freaking awesome. There might be separate setting write ups for pre and post destruction tokyo for that too.
Egg-freakin'-zactly.
-=Grim=-
Quote from: Koltar;290313I've said a version of this in various other threads : "LOST".
Wouldn't this game just involve having a bunch of random plot, setting and device tables that make no sense and rolling them over and over again until the campaign became unprofitable?
I'd seen that game before. I think it was the Twin Peaks and X-Files RPGs.
RPGPundit
Maybe Chronicles Of Riddick, if Dark Heresy wasn't so equipped to run a game like that.
Quote from: shalvayez;290409Maybe Chronicles Of Riddick, if Dark Heresy wasn't so equipped to run a game like that.
Riddick is
Fading Suns :D
Regards,
David R
A decent Gundam type mecha game would be awesome especially if it did a proper job of covering the different settings that gundam has covered over the years. Of course you'd have to make sure the players didnt end up in any of the uber powerfull game breaking mobile suits, but the universe is big enough to allow any number of different groups without messign up the central storyline of the shows.
Quote from: David R;290411Riddick is Fading Suns :D
Regards,
David R
Maybe. I own Fading Suns. Tried to read it. It bored me, I never looked at it again.
Quote from: RPGPundit;290402Wouldn't this game just involve having a bunch of random plot, setting and device tables that make no sense and rolling them over and over again until the campaign became unprofitable?
I'd seen that game before. I think it was the Twin Peaks and X-Files RPGs.
RPGPundit
Thank god I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Quote from: Ronin;289995Oh man lots of stuff. Porco Rosso, Gundam (to be specific Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team), Gunsmith Cats, Cowboy
Quote from: Broken-Serenity;290420A decent Gundam type mecha game would be awesome especially if it did a proper job of covering the different settings that gundam has covered over the years. Of course you'd have to make sure the players didnt end up in any of the uber powerfull game breaking mobile suits, but the universe is big enough to allow any number of different groups without messign up the central storyline of the shows.
Typical that I'd break a 2 year silence to say something about Gundam, but it's worth mentioning that I own two different Gundam RPGs (both about the OYW, and including 08th MS materials). The problem is that they're in Japanese. >_>; For what it's worth, the lack of licensed Mecha anime RPGs is one of the things that has prompted me to start writing my own mecha RPG...
Quote from: Broken-Serenity;290420A decent Gundam type mecha game would be awesome especially if it did a proper job of covering the different settings that gundam has covered over the years. Of course you'd have to make sure the players didnt end up in any of the uber powerfull game breaking mobile suits, but the universe is big enough to allow any number of different groups without messign up the central storyline of the shows.
Like I stated before, I agree. I think it would be easy to keep game busting gundam out of the picture. Just keep it restricted to the One Year war or just shortly there after. So the original Gundam, 08th MS Team, or 0080 War in the pocket.
Quote from: Ronin;290527Like I stated before, I agree. I think it would be easy to keep game busting gundam out of the picture. Just keep it restricted to the One Year war or just shortly there after. So the original Gundam, 08th MS Team, or 0080 War in the pocket.
There was a series of articles in the now defunct
Mecha Press magazine about how to convert
Mekton over to play closer to Gundam.
Damn, I miss
Mecha Press.
Quote from: jeff37923;290529There was a series of articles in the now defunct Mecha Press magazine about how to convert Mekton over to play closer to Gundam.
Damn, I miss Mecha Press.
I bought the PDF of one of those issues from drivethrurpg, actually. Unfortunately, one of the Mekton Zeta designers has since done a set of guidelines for running Gundam with Mekton Zeta (http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Running_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_in_Mekton_Zeta) that I think is better than the old Mecha Press articles, and to an extent, the Japanese Mekton-based Gundam RPG. It sadly breaks once you go past Char's Counterattack tech-level mecha, but there you go.
Quote from: GlauG;290534I bought the PDF of one of those issues from drivethrurpg, actually. Unfortunately, one of the Mekton Zeta designers has since done a set of guidelines for running Gundam with Mekton Zeta (http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Running_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_in_Mekton_Zeta) that I think is better than the old Mecha Press articles, and to an extent, the Japanese Mekton-based Gundam RPG. It sadly breaks once you go past Char's Counterattack tech-level mecha, but there you go.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Frankly, I can live without tech like that seen in Gundam F91 or G-Fighter Gundam so it doesn't really bug me too much.
Quote from: jeff37923;290536Thanks, I'll check it out.
Frankly, I can live without tech like that seen in Gundam F91 or G-Fighter Gundam so it doesn't really bug me too much.
Hope it's useful. It's a bit inaccurate in places, but if it bugs you, you'll notice and be able to correct it to suit your tastes. For what it's worth, grunt mecha from F91 through to Victory are okay, if a bit expensive compared to earlier UC stuff. The cost multipliers take the V2 Gundam into the thousands of points though (The Mega Beam Rifle alone clocked in at about 1,000... Yeah).
So as not to go totally off-topic, I'd also like a translation of the Shin Megami Tensei RPGs, or a TRPG based on Gundam MS Saga.
Quote from: GlauG;290534I bought the PDF of one of those issues from drivethrurpg, actually. Unfortunately, one of the Mekton Zeta designers has since done a set of guidelines for running Gundam with Mekton Zeta (http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Running_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_in_Mekton_Zeta) that I think is better than the old Mecha Press articles, and to an extent, the Japanese Mekton-based Gundam RPG. It sadly breaks once you go past Char's Counterattack tech-level mecha, but there you go.
Neat article thanks for posting it.:)
I would like to see Spycraft sourcebooks for the The Destroyer and The Executioner book series.
Having read nine of the books, I could also go for a Rifts or Gamma World sourcebook dealing with the Vampire Hunter D property.
Disgaea.
I hear Shin Megami Tensei has a tabletop rpg in Japan, so a translation of that would be cool.
A Discworld RPG that didn't use Gurps. Same with Hellboy. I like Gurps, I just don't think those properties work right with that framework.
Gurps: Doomsday (the movie), also Gurps: Nightside (the Simon R. Green novels)
Nightwatch/Daywatch/Twilightwatch/Final Watch would be really neat :D
A game of Giant Robots fighting cthulhoid horrors that's black and white.
Quote from: KrakaJak;290548I hear Shin Megami Tensei has a tabletop rpg in Japan, so a translation of that would be cool.
It does, sadly untranslated. I own one of the older editions.
Quote from: KrakaJak;290548A game of Giant Robots fighting cthulhoid horrors that's black and white.
What's wrong with Mongoose's Cthulhutech? :D
Quote from: DeadUematsu;290546I would like to see Spycraft sourcebooks for the The Destroyer and The Executioner book series.
That would be the shit! I love Mack Bolan the Executioner.
You know what other book series that just came to mind that would be a sweet RPG. Deathlands. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathlands)
Yes. A non-GURPS Hellboy RPG, I'd go for it.
Quote from: GlauG;290551What's wrong with Mongoose's Cthulhutech? :D
CthulhuTech is totally awesome. I'm a die hard HPL fan, like many of you I'm sure, and I just loved how inventive the authors were with the Cthulhu Mythos. Really good stuff.
Quote from: beejazz;290284An Akira game based on the manga, and minus the uber-psychics (there are a lot of lower level psychics that shouldn't be such a problem... pretty much everybody but kaneda, akira, and the three kids...) would be really freaking awesome. There might be separate setting write ups for pre and post destruction tokyo for that too.
Kanedaaaaaaaa? I think you mean... Tetsuoooooooooo!
Quote from: droog;290004Factotum (http://www.amazon.com/Factotum-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0876852630)
I'd go with
Post Office.
Vertigo's Transmetropolitan :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan
Regards,
David R
Silent Mobius. Loved the manga and the two movies from it. The anime series was a bit lackluster though. But man the comic rocked.
Battle Angel Alita. Another manga, one hell of a bad ass manga. The anime version of it... kicked ass as well.
My personal preference would be that they would come using Interlok from Cyberpunk 2020 or Fuzion done well (Artesia well). Using a load of the art from the comics for illustrations.
Ah well... I can dream.
Record of Lodoss War, both the OVA and the Series, written up as a setting for all versions of D&D and its Retro-Clones and Pathfinder. I'd love to see that since the idea for the anime originally came from a D&D campaign IIRC.
I wanna see one being played by me, god damn it.
Huh? Oh, uh, "How 'bout a game based on The Dresden Files?", he said, knowing fully well what he meant. Or a Blade Runner supplement for...I dunno, some game or other.
Oh, yeah.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/e/e0/Alien_Legion_Vol_1_1.jpg/300px-Alien_Legion_Vol_1_1.jpg)
Quote from: Aos;290594I'd go with Post Office.
Well, a generic Bukowski game would be fine.
DREADSTAR
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/dreadstar
Regards,
David R
Quote from: Aos;290593Kanedaaaaaaaa? I think you mean... Tetsuoooooooooo!
*facepalm* shit, you're right!! How did I get those two confused?
On an unrelated note, imagine being a player in the session where Tetsuo goes giant-horrible-fetus-monster.
Players: We're supposed to fight that?
GM: Yep. Oh, and your laser is almost out of batteries.
Oh and... god what was that anime/manga... Claymore. Claymore would be a fucking awesome RPG.
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!;290620I wanna see one being played by me, god damn it.
Huh? Oh, uh, "How 'bout a game based on The Dresden Files?", he said, knowing fully well what he meant. Or a Blade Runner supplement for...I dunno, some game or other.
Well there is a The Dresden Files RPG (http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com/). Or are you poking a little fun cause you dont really care for the system either?
Quote from: beejazz;290629*facepalm* shit, you're right!! How did I get those two confused?
On an unrelated note, imagine being a player in the session where Tetsuo goes giant-horrible-fetus-monster.
Players: We're supposed to fight that?
GM: Yep. Oh, and your laser is almost out of batteries.
Oh and... god what was that anime/manga... Claymore. Claymore would be a fucking awesome RPG.
I think there are some hints towards the end of the GN that Kenada is also a bit more than human. It would go a long towards explaining his crazy physical prowess, anyway.
Shit, Transmetropolitan would be fantastic on the one hand, but on the other what could you really DO with it as an RPG?
Other than give the GM a chance to do his Hunter S. Thompson impersonation?
RPGPundit
Quote from: Ronin;290561T
You know what other book series that just came to mind that would be a sweet RPG. Deathlands. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathlands)
I hadn't heard of that series until now. I went and looked at that Wiki for it and I think I'm sold.
I'm glad I found out about the series here and not through the TV show. It looks terrible. I hope my local branch library has some of them. They seem to have everything else.
-=Grim=-
Quote from: RPGPundit;290656Shit, Transmetropolitan would be fantastic on the one hand, but on the other what could you really DO with it as an RPG?
C'mon, just reading the Wpedia description should give any designer some ideas. I would prefer it of course if Spider was missing -
a mythical urban legend meme haunting the conscience of the pcs - and the PCs were reporters for the Word
QuoteOther than give the GM a chance to do his Hunter S. Thompson impersonation?
This is one of it's selling points.
Regards,
David R
Mass Effect would be cool. Modern Space Opera? Awesome.
Deus Ex (Cyberthriller?)
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Quote from: GlauG;290551What's wrong with Mongoose's Cthulhutech? :D
Ummm, don't get me started.....oh well here goes:
The setting is pretentious and complicated. It's terribly un-Lovecraft like. Not a single player "class" is appealing. The Mecha designs suck. The have a chapter titled "SKILLZ." The system is shitty (wanna-be WW-Storytelling is not good for a Mecha game), especially combat.
It was probably the biggest let-down I've ever had for an RPG. It's such an awesome premise that it should be impossible to botch. Yet there it is. You're better off combining Robotech and Beyond the Supernatural.
Quote from: KrakaJak;293049Ummm, don't get me started.....oh well here goes:
The setting is pretentious and complicated. It's terribly un-Lovecraft like. Not a single player "class" is appealing. The Mecha designs suck. The have a chapter titled "SKILLZ." The system is shitty (wanna-be WW-Storytelling is not good for a Mecha game), especially combat.
It was probably the biggest let-down I've ever had for an RPG. It's such an awesome premise that it should be impossible to botch. Yet there it is. You're better off combining Robotech and Beyond the Supernatural.
And yet, it's absolutely loved on RPGnet. You also forgot that the books have a tendency to fall apart.
Quote from: shalvayez;293056And yet, it's absolutely loved on RPGnet.
I don't mind not sharing the opinion of "rpg.net," :D
Hive minds are for suckers...:emot-unwanted:
QuoteYou also forgot that the books have a tendency to fall apart.
Luckilly, I picked up the .pdf first. Although I can't ebay that :(