We had one of these threads a couple year ago and it inspired me to create Stone Horizons.

So, let's see if someone else gets the urge from this thread!

What book, tv series, film, whatever, would you like to have an RPG based on?

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A Song of Ice and Fire (well, this one will be released soon, I hope).

Friday the 13th.

Having read this post I had a look at my DVD library to look for ideas of what licences might make good games. As it were, quite of few of my DVDs already have rpgs which are either directly licensed rpgs or something close enough, which is probably just a sad reflection of the type of DVD I buy.

Anyway here are my choices.

"Man from Uncle"
Actually I don't have any "Man from Uncle" DVDs. I do have a boxed set of the old "Get Smart" series which wasn't as funny as I remembered it. However it make me think that there might be a market the kind spy game that did not take itself too seriously. "Mission Impossible" might be better licence although the last MI movie was actually quite dark.

"Escape from New York"
EFNY could make an interesting setting if one developed the different gangs, politics and economy of the Manhattan-prison in detail, albeit 30 years too late.

"Futurama"
Futurama has got a really rich, cool world but comedy games can be problematic though, especially for anything more than a one off. I think the genius of  Ghostbusters was that, despite the gags and silly tone, the adventures presented genuine challenges with proper mysteries to uncover and monsters to fight. It wasn't just a slapstick game. If one could do the same thing with Futurama, it could be a winner.

Quote from: Soylent Green;284818"Mission Impossible" might be better licence although the last MI movie was actually quite dark.

And bad.

I agree with you though that a swingin' 60's spy game would be nice. Not Austin Powers per se (although a touch of Our Man Flint perhaps). I'm not sure licensing is necessary, but Man from Uncle and Mission Impossible (TV) would be great inspirations. The Avengers, too, of course.

Maybe I Spy although somehow I've never managed to see a single episode.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;284853Maybe I Spy although somehow I've never managed to see a single episode.

"I SPy" was actually quite GOOD.

Some cable channel played the episodes this past year and I managed to catch 3 or 4 . Thry were done with a bit much more serious tone than either UNCLE or "Get Smart".  Robert Culp wrote several episodes and directed more than a handful. There were some decent scripts and actual ethical and moral dilemmas in many of the stories.


- Ed C.

Startropics - as in "regular youths stumble into modern-day pulp adventures, deal with gonzo threats from animated stone idols to ghosts to alien invaders, and survive by wits and cunning rather than being all-round awesome pulp heroes".

For RPG potential, the single youth could easily be replaced with a clique as in The Three Investigators or the Enyd Blyton books, and the setting and the typical adventures therein offer enough niches and tasks from combat over untrapping to psionics to allow for a highly diversified group.

Actually, playing the game it always felt to me more like a modern-day version of D&D than like a typical JCRPG, especially as the hero really just starts out as a regular, fragile joe battling rats and bats with an make-shift weapon (his yo-yo), and remains regular without any crappy "you are the awesome unique snowflake from our legends" destined predetermination, and as the dungeons demand more brains to figure out puzzles, traps and secret doors than pure muscle-flexing and labyrinth navigation.
So, I'd probably go for a level-based system with a very paranoid Lvl1-phase, but a more pulp-y feeling later on, and rules support for dungeoneering stuff like traps and dealing with closed doors. Maybe meshing LL (for the fantasy stuff and the dungeoneering) and Mutant Future (for the contemporary and sci-fi stuff) would work, with LL classes that have been altered for a contemporary background as a base for character creation and progression.

Not a full RPG license, but I'd love to see the anime and manga Planetes get licensed as a setting for Mongoose Traveller.

Quote from: Soylent Green;284818Having read this post I had a look at my DVD library to look for ideas of what licences might make good games. As it were, quite of few of my DVDs already have rpgs which are either directly licensed rpgs or something close enough, which is probably just a sad reflection of the type of DVD I buy.

"Escape from New York"
EFNY could make an interesting setting if one developed the different gangs, politics and economy of the Manhattan-prison in detail, albeit 30 years too late.

Ditto on both counts. I would play an Escape from New York game today, though, as long as it had nothing what-so-ever to do with that sequel-that-shall-not-be-named.

The 5th Element had a ton of background stuff (in just one movie!) that would make for a fun future, unlike most sci-fi stuff which is dark, but Bruce Willis would have to be on the cover and that would make me cringe. Not that I'm a Willis-hater, but it would just kill the tone of the work.

Same for Pitch Black/CoR, though a lot less detail.

And there probably is a Matrix RPG out there, but if there isn't, it would make a good one if done right (and if not, there would be a long line of critics ready to crush it). Of course, you could say that about any game, movie, book, etc.

P.S. I started thinking about book possibilities and the first book that came to mind was Dracula and I got to thinking how that would make such a great Castle Falkenstein adventure. Hmmmmmmm.

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I'll fully agree with something in the Man from UNCLE, Mission Impossible (tv), The Avengers, I Spy, It Takes a Thief vein.  One of those could be a lot of fun.

Another that I'd really enjoy seeing done, but seriously doubt that the atmosphere could be properly captured would be Simon R. Green's Nightside series.

For the conservatives among us, I believe these shows should be licensed for RPG....
 
Sesame Street
Care Bears
Getalong Gang
Brady Bunch: The RPG
Schoolhouse Rock

Quote from: Koltar;284855"I SPy" was actually quite GOOD.

I just found out that a bunch of the first season has been released on Joost and Hulu (free). I watched one last night on Joost and it wasn't bad. I was very surprised at the streaming quality, too.