What IP would you like to see as an RPG?

[Alzrius]

Richard Garriott's Ultima series.

 

[Sacrosanct]

There should be a Month Python TTRPG.

I have no idea how that would actually look from a designer and writers perspective.

 

[DeviousQuail]

A Final Fantasy game could be fun... as long as blitzball is a fully fleshed out subsystem. Actually, how about a blitzball game with a final fantasy subsystem. That sounds way better.

A 4X game that I'd like to see as an rpg is Endless Legend. You've already got the various species, weapons and armor, a ton of quest content, and some science that might as well be magic built right in. And if you want Sci-fi the same company made Endless Space so that's fun.

It's been a while since I read the books but a Percy Jackson rpg could be fun. The combination of modern setting, mythical adversaries, and getting to be a Demigod all work for me. I'd probably age it up because I'm too old to want to pretend to be 13 again. At least college age for me.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Conan, without 2d20.

 

[MGibster]

I find that to be a very difficult question to answer. I didn't think I'd ever want to see Alien or Blade Runner turned into RPGs, but I own the former and am looking forward to the latter's release. If you told me in 1995 that I would absolutely fall in love just two years later with an RPG based off the IP of a collectible card game I would have laughed, but Legend of the Five Rings is a great RPG.

Scooby-Doo, or Hanna-Barbera, where you create a group of young people who solve mysteries. In the 70s, there were a slew of shows like this including The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Josie and the Pussycats, and Jabber Jaw. This might be a great game for younger gamers where solving a mystery could be emphasized over violence.

A Mad Max style game might be a lot of fun. You could have a campaign where one more of the same characters appear in every adventure, but continuity is not 100% accurate. Didn't your car get blown up in the last adventure? Who cares, just roll with it.

Necromunda is a table top skirmish game set in the Warhammer 40k universe were gangers fight one another in the bowels of Hive City for money and power. I don't think there's a 40k game specifically for Necromunda, but there's a rich vein of lore to mine and the setting is fantastic.

 

[jdrakeh]

Conan, without 2d20.

I'd buy that. The only official Conan RPG treatment I ever cared for was, perhaps weirdly, GURPS Conan. Despite being GURPS, it somehow managed to be more streamlined than TSR's Conan game, Mongoose's two Conan OGL/d20 treatments, and the current Conan 2d20 game. And it has some absolutely awesome solo adventures.

 

[CubicsRube]

Game of Thrones already has two different RPGs.

Something set in the world of Mad Max would be pretty cool. That said, I'm sure that can be accommodated in some of the existing post-apocalyptic rpgs.

I reckon

I have no idea how that would actually look from a designer and writers perspective.

Like Fiasco i'd imagine, but with more silly Knig-gets

 

[CubicsRube]

A House of Cards RPG.

You represent a small power bloc within a political party fighting to rise the ranks in the party while also presenting a united front. Choose when and who to betray, garner support from stakeholders and use your various social talents to try to do good in the world... or to ruin your enemies lives and destroy their souls...

 

[CubicsRube]

Also a Tiger King RPG might be fun for a short goofy campaign. You have to operate a park together and fend off rival park operators and random disasters to find out if you're ever going to financially recover from this.

 

[aramis erak]

Rock Band.

Hear me out. The idea of playing a traveling band, playing bigger and bigger gigs, having to deal with rivals and corrupt agents... Could be a lot of fun! Somehow you would need to find a way to incorporate actual music into the game. Maybe a simple sound-mixing app that players can use to add premade tracks in order to create new songs?

You could add elements to make it more fantastical (like Scott Pilgrim vs the World), go full fantasy (Ye Olde Rocke Bande), head into the future (Cyberpunk Rock Band, aka Daft Punk), or just play it straight.

Been done: Rockstar: Velvet Generation. It's an interesting read.

Alternatively, there's also GWAR: Rumble in Antarctica, but that's technically a minis game, not an RPG...

For Traveller 5, there's Cirque - which while focused on a travelling circus, is indeed very performer adjacent.

And, just for completeness, The Robotech Invid Invasion RPG from Palladium had Dancer's stats, and suggests traveling performers as a good way to justify travel.. (Especially since it's the conceit of the show...)