This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

Why isn't there an RPG of...

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

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 ... 3 4 5
User actions

droog

#60
November 09, 2007, 12:30:34 AM
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.
Nice!
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
[/size]

Drew

#61
November 09, 2007, 12:37:32 AM
I'm still waiting to see if Potter is Mongooses "holy grail."
 

KrakaJak

#62
November 09, 2007, 04:32:48 AM
I think Halo would make for an excellent RPG.
-Jak
 
 "Be the person you want to be, at the expense of everything."
Spreading Un-Common Sense since 1983

Warthur

#63
November 09, 2007, 07:59:03 AM
Quote from: DrewI'm still waiting to see if Potter is Mongooses "holy grail."
Other than "D&D" it's the only thing which could possibly live up to the hype they've built up around that; Star Wars is clutched tightly in Wizards' grasp, and Lord of the Rings has lost its appeal as a gaming licence after the lacklustre Decipher version.
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

ColonelHardisson

#64
November 09, 2007, 07:59:28 PM
Quote from: Warthurlacklustre Decipher version.

Well, I ran a campaign of this game, and found it to be enjoyable. The sales for it may have been lackluster, but the game itself was pretty good. In all the times I've seen the game criticized, I've yet to see any negative criticism from someone who has actually run the game for a few months.
"Illegitimis non carborundum." - General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell

4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

Malleus Arianorum

#65
November 10, 2007, 03:26:57 AM
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.
:wizard: Veritas!
That\'s pretty much how post modernism works. Keep dismissing details until there is nothing left, and then declare that it meant nothing all along. --John Morrow
 
Butt-Kicker 100%, Storyteller 100%, Power Gamer 100%, Method Actor 100%, Specialist 67%, Tactician 67%, Casual Gamer 0%

Warthur

#66
November 10, 2007, 06:46:19 AM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonWell, I ran a campaign of this game, and found it to be enjoyable. The sales for it may have been lackluster, but the game itself was pretty good. In all the times I've seen the game criticized, I've yet to see any negative criticism from someone who has actually run the game for a few months.
Circular reasoning. Anyone who didn't enjoy the game wouldn't keep running it for months.

The fact remains that LotR has passed through the hands of several gaming RPG companies and hasn't really translated to massive sales for any of them: MERP was good for ICE, but wasn't exactly a licence to print money, and the Decipher LotR RPG simply didn't sell. At this point, chasing after the LotR licence would be throwing good money after bad; it'd be deluding yourself into thinking that you could make a mint out of the game, because gamers will latch onto your version to a greater extent than they did the Decipher version or MERP.
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

Warthur

#67
November 10, 2007, 06:49:07 AM
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.
It's Ars Magica.

Think about it: the wizards do their business in a magical realm out of the sight of normal people. (Platform 9 3/4, Daigon Alley and Hogwarts presumably all exist in magical regios.) They cast spells by stringing Latin together, and get better at magic through intensive academic study. The Order of Hermes has become the Ministry of Magic, and carefully controls things (you're not allowed to use magic unsupervised until you've completed your apprenticeship/finished school, for example) but is nonetheless fallible, and has a bunch of leet magical detectives (Justicars/Aurors) to battle evil.

It's totally Ars Magica.
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

Dr Rotwang!

#68
November 10, 2007, 08:04:02 AM
Just to be clear, I read and enjoyed the HP books, even though it was ever noticeable that the internal logic served the story and the story ONLY, and the books were, as Spike says, "enjoyable but not spectacular".
Dr Rotwang!
...never blogs faster than he can see.
FONZITUDE RATING: 1985[/font]

dar

#69
November 10, 2007, 09:47:11 AM
Quote from: WarthurIt's totally Ars Magica.

Thats freaky close too... hmm...

Ian Absentia

#70
November 10, 2007, 12:13:08 PM
Quote from: Warthur[Harry Potter]'s totally Ars Magica.
Hey, nifty.  And scavenging the simplified combat rules from Rune... :haw:

!i!

stu2000

#71
November 10, 2007, 12:21:25 PM
Quote from: WarthurIt's Ars Magica.

Think about it: the wizards do their business in a magical realm out of the sight of normal people. (Platform 9 3/4, Daigon Alley and Hogwarts presumably all exist in magical regios.) They cast spells by stringing Latin together, and get better at magic through intensive academic study. The Order of Hermes has become the Ministry of Magic, and carefully controls things (you're not allowed to use magic unsupervised until you've completed your apprenticeship/finished school, for example) but is nonetheless fallible, and has a bunch of leet magical detectives (Justicars/Aurors) to battle evil.

It's totally Ars Magica.

I wasn't particularly interested in HP till I read that.
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
Print
Go Up Pages 1 ... 3 4 5
User actions