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Why Didn't Harry Potter Change the Game?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 7734012" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p>Big-name licensing has been tricky in the RPG world for a long time and I suspect that's a factor here too - on top of the author's rejection, of course. </p><p></p><p>- In the middle of Lord of the Rings movies we had the one short-lived Decipher RPG and then nothing for 7-8 years. </p><p></p><p>- In the middle of the Marvel Cinematic explosion we had the one MWP Marvel RPG for not even a year and nothing new since</p><p></p><p>- Reasonably and perpetually popular Star Trek had no active RPG after 2003 and even after the new movie series started up in 2009 there was no RPG until last year.</p><p></p><p>This is despite all of these universes having long-lived, successful RPGs in the 80's and into the 90's for some. I think the IP holders have become far more strict about terms and costs have surely increased. </p><p></p><p>I agree that Harry Potter is a huge missed opportunity, particularly regarding potential new players. I'm not sure there's any reason to be more optimistic about this changing right now. Maybe if there's a new book or movie series or some other main line re-ignition of the universe they will be more interested and open to an RPG.</p><p></p><p>I also think that there was an attitude in many quarters that tabletop RPGs were too old a thing to bother with. I suspect that the success of D&D the last few years may have changed that in a lot of those places too. If there is a reason for optimism right now, I'd start there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 7734012, member: 53082"] Big-name licensing has been tricky in the RPG world for a long time and I suspect that's a factor here too - on top of the author's rejection, of course. - In the middle of Lord of the Rings movies we had the one short-lived Decipher RPG and then nothing for 7-8 years. - In the middle of the Marvel Cinematic explosion we had the one MWP Marvel RPG for not even a year and nothing new since - Reasonably and perpetually popular Star Trek had no active RPG after 2003 and even after the new movie series started up in 2009 there was no RPG until last year. This is despite all of these universes having long-lived, successful RPGs in the 80's and into the 90's for some. I think the IP holders have become far more strict about terms and costs have surely increased. I agree that Harry Potter is a huge missed opportunity, particularly regarding potential new players. I'm not sure there's any reason to be more optimistic about this changing right now. Maybe if there's a new book or movie series or some other main line re-ignition of the universe they will be more interested and open to an RPG. I also think that there was an attitude in many quarters that tabletop RPGs were too old a thing to bother with. I suspect that the success of D&D the last few years may have changed that in a lot of those places too. If there is a reason for optimism right now, I'd start there. [/QUOTE]
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