What Licensed RPG Do You Wish Existed But Doesn't?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Majesty pc game using SPI Dragonquest.

I held onto the Majesty hint book for years to use it as a gazetteer. So much great implied lore and setting ideas there.

More broadly, this thread has a ton of great examples of stuff I am baffled hasn't been licensed out. The small stuff can't cost much to license at this point (how many people are beating down the door for a Majesty RPG book nowadays) and the big stuff seems like a no-brainer for the big companies that own them. (Seriously, a Mass Effect sci-fi ttrpg is a license to print money.)

 

[The Shadow]

For my part, I'm surprised that Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series didn't get the TTRPG treatment. There's so much to work with in it. Heck, the magic system is super-codified and well-explained.

The magic system did drift a bit with time... The first book did a lot with ley lines, which were pretty much completely dropped thereafter. But yeah, Skeeve's magic pretty much boils down to telekinesis and wards. Some people seem to be able to do mental magics as well.

 

[Blue Orange]

Everyone's dodging the elephant in the room, eh?

The series Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was supposed to emulate?

The one The Magicians trilogy was supposed to be the college-age version of? (Though that one has actual D&D spells in it.)

The one that's a magical version of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Personally I have no int

Everyone's dodging the elephant in the room, eh?

The series Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was supposed to emulate?

The one The Magicians trilogy was supposed to be the college-age version of? (Though that one has actual D&D spells in it.)

The one that's a magical version of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

Personally I have no interest in a Harry Potter RPG; that setting makes absolutely no sense outside of the very narrow narrative of the main series (and often not even there).

I would be down for a The Magicians RPG though.

 

[billd91]

Everyone's dodging the elephant in the room, eh?

The series Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was supposed to emulate?

The one The Magicians trilogy was supposed to be the college-age version of? (Though that one has actual D&D spells in it.)

The one that's a magical version of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

I think a Harry Potter RPG could have been fun... at one time. But Rowling has screwed that pooch (and keeps screwing it again and again and again) so that's pretty much that.

 

[overgeeked]

Larry Correia

Ugh. No racist Sad Puppy nonsense.

Sad Puppies - Wikipedia

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[Corinnguard]

I think I would like to see the Wizardry VII and Wizardry VIII computer games as RPG settings. Wizardry 8 - Wikipedia

I also wouldn't mind seeing the Storm Hawks cartoon as a setting. Storm Hawks - Wikipedia

 

[overgeeked]

Thundarr the Barbarian. Pirates of Dark Water. Anything Miyazaki.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Any fans of Michael Scott Rohan?

Winter of the World would work as an excellent low fantasy setting. I'd avoid having the PCs be yet more gods slumming it in mortal form.

For a more high fantasy feel there's his Spiral series. Weird interplanar travels with serious consequences for those who stray too far from the core.

 

[John R Davis]

Thundarr the Barbarian. Pirates of Dark Water. Anything Miyazaki.

There is a PODW rpg