What Licensed RPG Do You Wish Used A Different System?

[Micah Sweet]

I think Edge Studios still have the license and they are apparently reprinting some books, so it's not completely dead.

On life support at best.

 

[aramis erak]

Cortex Prime is now owned by Dire Wolf Digital, and they've published the hardcover book for Tales of Xadia, complete with online tools. In addition, they're up to 13 setting Spotlights and have released the Cortex Codex. So fortunately it's not dead!

(But unless Dire Wolf chooses to try and license Firefly from Disney, or whomever owns Serenity, unlikely there'll be a new version of a Firefly game using Cortex Prime. But all the bits are there and it'd be an easyish update to do on one's own.)

It's Fox for Firefly and Universal for Serenity. So yeah, since Disney bought Fox, Disney.
Not likely to happen. Tho' its worth noting that Disney hasn't pulled the post-license continued sales of BTVS, Angle, nor Army of Darkness.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Please, I implore you, get over yourself. “Merits challenge” lol

Mod Note:

Disagreements are fine. Disagreeability isn’t. Posts like these add nothing to the discussion but raised tensions.

 

[Kannik]

It's Fox for Firefly and Universal for Serenity. So yeah, since Disney bought Fox, Disney.
Not likely to happen. Tho' its worth noting that Disney hasn't pulled the post-license continued sales of BTVS, Angle, nor Army of Darkness.

-nods- MWP let the licenses go before Disney acquired FOX; if another company wanted to license the IP for an RPG I would bet Disney wouldn't be averse to it (especially since Star Wars and Marvel both have shiny big RPG products). Whether the licensing fee they might want would work for an RPG company for the size of the potential Firefly market is a larger question.

 

[aramis erak]

-nods- MWP let the licenses go before Disney acquired FOX; if another company wanted to license the IP for an RPG I would bet Disney wouldn't be averse to it (especially since Star Wars and Marvel both have shiny big RPG products). Whether the licensing fee they might want would work for an RPG company for the size of the potential Firefly market is a larger question.

Yeah, but the BTVS/Angel and Army of Darkness are not MWP- they're Eden Studios, and comprise the Unisystem Light games... and are still available over a decade after license termination... and disney hasn't gone after them, either.

Anyone doing Firefly as a setting is highly unlikely to try to get the system license for Cortex.

Until the reboot gets a green light (seems less and less likely by the week)

 

[Tony Vargas]

I keep trying to imagine what kind of Star Wars game I would want.

One thing I would really, really want that seems really hard to deliver is for a rich Jedi system that feels like playing a proper Jedi, but without eclipsing the non-Jedi PCs or trivializing encounters, and that seems like a hard problem to solve.

I liked d6 Star Wars back in the day, but it didn't have nearly as tough a row to hoe as the powers of the Jedi hadn't been expanded all that much by the mid 80s, and the time-period it was set in precluded all but, like, failed or untrained Jedi.
IDK how to approach it, today - for some time now, non-Jedi are really left completely in the dust in the source material.

But I did just mean to pop in and say "Star Wars" wish it were still WEG d6

 

[Kannik]

Yeah, but the BTVS/Angel and Army of Darkness are not MWP- they're Eden Studios, and comprise the Unisystem Light games... and are still available over a decade after license termination... and disney hasn't gone after them, either.

Yeah, the other licenses are probably still grandfathered in. (Or are you saying they stopped paying licensing fees/royalty payments and Fox/Disney hasn't done anything about it?)

 

[Yora]

All the 2d20 games.
And The Witcher.
And the currently licensed Star Wars RPG.

 

[Reynard]

I'm surprised so many people seem to really dislike the Modiphius 2d20 system. If you are one of those people, what do you not like about it?

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

The world would be brighter if all licensed games used Savage Worlds.