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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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#30
October 30, 2007, 04:14:00 PM
Quote from: Bradford C. WalkerAll of the aforementioned anime series, and a great deal more, can be done just fine with existing games- and done with aplomb by a smaller subset of them.

Yes, but I think the industry may be missing some golden opportunity by not linking us closer to the anime craze.

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#31
October 30, 2007, 04:18:27 PM
I'm well aware that there are versatile generic systems capable of running the anime series I mentioned.

But what anime fan is going to pick up a book and buy it because it *might* let him play in his favorite TV show? As licenses go, it's the name on the box as much as anything.

Also... what system would you recommend for Naruto/Bleach? I've read BESM and GURPS 4e. Do you really see these as a good fit or did you have something else in mind?

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#32
October 30, 2007, 05:49:14 PM
Until I can come across something better, anything that's focused on powers and techniques is best handled by either M&M or HERO.

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#33
October 30, 2007, 05:51:17 PM
I think it should be remembered that most anime fans - and by "anime fans" I'm thinking of people who follow at least one anime series outside of the really high-profile ones like your Pokemons and Yu-Gi-Ohs - are aware of RPGs anyhow, such geek hobbies having a fair amount of crossover. There's two possibilities: either nobody's succeeded in making an anime-themed game which sufficiently grabs them and draws them in, or those of them who'd be inclined to play RPGs already do. (Indeed, a goodly proportion of the online fanfiction roleplaying thingies on livejournal are anime-based - or take the fandom in question and anime-fy it.)
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#34
October 31, 2007, 08:31:39 AM
Quote from: beejazzGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex? Two TV series as prequels to the movies. I think there's also a SAC movie out, though I'm not sure it's been subbed/dubbed into English yet.
 

This has the potential to be a very good cyberpunk rpg. Yea, yea, it could be done ok with existing systems. But the vast majority of players don't want to spend 100 hours working on a conversion, they want stats for all the equipment and modifications. I remember a that theres' a D20 homemade version that's a couple of hundred pages long but I don't remember much about it.
 
A Naruto game with a good system that is simple yet flexible enough to handle a wide variety of powers would have the potential to attract a ton of kids who don't already play rpgs.

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#35
November 02, 2007, 12:34:16 PM
The setting of Space: Above and Beyond would be a pretty wicked setting for an RPG, but it's easy enough to do that it doesn't really need its own published game with a license- Alternity would work perfectly.
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#36
November 02, 2007, 03:38:21 PM
I d=went back to where I read it originally, and it appears the Wachowskis have pulled all of their interviews off of whatisthematrix.com. That where I read it originally.

I rememeber it pretty vividly because I had absolutely no interest in Mage until I read that interview.
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#37
November 02, 2007, 04:20:38 PM
Quote from: KrakaJakI d=went back to where I read it originally, and it appears the Wachowskis have pulled all of their interviews off of whatisthematrix.com. That where I read it originally.

Have you tried looking via the Wayback Machine?
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#38
November 02, 2007, 05:19:41 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditYes, but I think the industry may be missing some golden opportunity by not linking us closer to the anime craze.

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I generally dislike most Anime...except realistic-looking stuff like Ghost In The Shell.

 Now if there was a Ghost In The Shell RPG - I'd be interested in buying it.  There has been a thread on the SJG forums sometimes discussing how to adapt the major or someone like her using the GURPS rules.


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#39
November 03, 2007, 03:24:41 AM
Quote from: John MorrowHave you tried looking via the Wayback Machine?
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#40
November 03, 2007, 04:21:08 AM
Quote from: KrakaJakMr. Peabody says I'm not allowed in the lab anymore.

For no paritcular reason.
He was being serious.
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#41
November 03, 2007, 11:14:19 AM
Quote from: J ArcaneHe was being serious.

Yeah, I guess I should have included the URL instead of being lazy about it.

The Wayback Machine is a web site that lets you view many web sites as they looked up to several years ago.  It's a great way of finding stuff that's officially been taken down.
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#42
November 03, 2007, 12:23:36 PM
Has any body here ever played Elite?

A quick write up of the universe at hand and how to generate more of it would be rather neat.

Yea, things very much like it have been done again and again, i.e. Traveller, but I want something very specific to Elite.

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#43
November 03, 2007, 01:08:23 PM
Quote from: darHas any body here ever played Elite?

yeah, during school lunchtimes huddled round a BBC Micro. Constantly crashing into the space station and outrunning pirates. Elite was a classic. When we first played Traveller we wanted to TRADE, fleecing alien scum. Well, it was the 80's.

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#44
November 03, 2007, 02:01:22 PM
Elite is a classic. I'd love to play in that universe.
 
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