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Why isn't there an RPG of...

Started by RPGPundit, October 30, 2007, 09:48:15 AM

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Wil

#45
November 04, 2007, 09:54:32 PM
  • Licenses can be relatively expensive (notice relatively - in the world of licensing a few grand might not be much but to many game companies it is a significant chunk of change).
  • Sometimes there's not just one movie studio, publisher, etc. to deal with and it takes lawyers to help sort it out. That means more money and more headaches. Not everyone will want to play ball.
  • There may be approval processes, delays in publishing due to changes that have to be made, etc. Those delays amount to lost opportunity or profits.
  • Not everything from the setting may be made available for publication in the RPG (see #2 and 3).
  • There's often not a lot of meat on the setting, especially if the property is from a movie or other visual medium. Anything that is fleshed out more is pretty much automatically "non-canon." The licensor may not like all of the proposed changes even if they would make a better game setting (see #2, 3 and 4).
I believe that you can point to any published RPG license and find that at least one of these factors applied to it at some point in time.
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Settembrini

#46
November 05, 2007, 03:45:47 AM
Isn´t ELITE Traveller inspired, instead of the other way around?
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#47
November 05, 2007, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: John MorrowYeah, I guess I should have included the URL instead of being lazy about it.

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#48
November 06, 2007, 08:02:21 AM
I hope you do. When I saw the Matrix, I was certain that it was inspired by Mage. I'd love to see the proof in writing.
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dar

#49
November 06, 2007, 12:05:07 PM
Quote from: SettembriniIsn´t ELITE Traveller inspired, instead of the other way around?

Yes it is. I didn't mean to imply anything else. The ELITE universe is its own thing, however.

J Arcane

#50
November 06, 2007, 12:10:31 PM
Quote from: darYes it is. I didn't mean to imply anything else. The ELITE universe is its own thing, however.
If you can call a bunch of randomly generated planets that all look the same a "universe".  

Seems like quite a stretch to me.
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#51
November 06, 2007, 01:10:08 PM
Well there is a background to the game, and a story of sorts.

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm

Granted the planets were randomly generated, but then again the game wasn't specifically about the planets.

Spike

#52
November 07, 2007, 03:29:17 PM
I do seem to recall seeing a Terminator liscenced game on the shelves years ago... I think from the same folks that brought us Pheonix Command, Aliens and Lawnmowerman...among others...
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#53
November 07, 2007, 03:53:46 PM
Quote from: SpikeI do seem to recall seeing a Terminator liscenced game on the shelves years ago... I think from the same folks that brought us Pheonix Command, Aliens and Lawnmowerman...among others...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000RIEJ0C/ref=nosim/waynesworldof-20
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#54
November 07, 2007, 04:35:17 PM
The Fifth Element did have an RPG, or close enough to one at any rate: the Metabarons RPG by WEG.

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beejazz

#55
November 08, 2007, 12:19:02 AM
Okay... I know full well why they don't have an RPG of it and it could be easily handled by generic systems (preempting the obvious responses) but I would soooo love to play in a game based on Black Lagoon.

BASHMAN

#56
November 08, 2007, 03:32:31 AM
Harry Potter is one of those things that screams, "Introductory kids rpg"-- but I think JK Rowling has some 1980s phobia of rpgs or something.
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#57
November 08, 2007, 06:50:27 AM
Quote from: BASHMANHarry Potter is one of those things that screams, "Introductory kids rpg"-- but I think JK Rowling has some 1980s phobia of rpgs or something.
I think it's more a very 2000s irritation with fan fiction, and a feeling that putting a Potter RPG out there would facilitate even more of it, coupled with a slightly controlling attitude towards the setting - she really, really doesn't like the idea of other people taking it away and doing other things with it.
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#58
November 08, 2007, 10:43:12 AM
My pet theory to explain the lack of a Harry Potter RPG is this:

If codified as an RPG setting, the world would have to make some type of sense.
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Spike

#59
November 08, 2007, 12:16:18 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!My pet theory to explain the lack of a Harry Potter RPG is this:

If codified as an RPG setting, the world would have to make some type of sense.


My theory, reinforced by her newest project and her venomous attitude towards the fan made potter encylopedea (in the news last week) was the same as its been for a while: Rowlings is a Stone Cold Bitch. With a very sharp business savvy mind, which she has leverage to turn an enjoyable but not spectacular read into the phenomenon of the decade.

But, yeah, she's a bitch, and there is no profit in an RPG for her, only a perceived weakening on her iron taloned grasp on her 'property'.

Not that I care, I've only read one potter book and only seen a couple movies due to the girl...
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