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

[Undrave]

I think that would depend on the individual table. I know my player would want Hogwarts all the way.

I can't fathom why... what kind of person wants to go back to school?!

A Zelda rpg (any system!) which includes an atlas which synthesizes, in a rational way, all of the maps from every Zelda game ever made. This would also necessitate futher clarity on alternate timelines.

Or Hyrule Warriors level of time shenanigans Or it's own time period.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A Zelda rpg (any system!) which includes an atlas which synthesizes, in a rational way, all of the maps from every Zelda game ever made. This would also necessitate futher clarity on alternate timelines.

Bloat Games is making monster manuals for multiple systems already. I imagine that with the hardcover Hyrule books published by Dark Horse a few years ago, that would get you pretty far.

Still, hardly the same as Nintendo licensing out a ttrpg.

Speaking of which, it's pretty weird that Final Fantasy doesn't have a ttrpg. I know that the different games all present different worldbuilding, etc., but it seems like a Sword World-like game (which seems the obvious system) with big books that let people pull from various Fighting Fantasy games (and there's a lot of accumulated content there) could do very well, both at home and overseas.

 

[billd91]

I can't fathom why... what kind of person wants to go back to school?!

Adolescent shenanigans. They're always better in games than in the real-life confusion and misery that is real adolescent education.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Adolescent shenanigans. They're always better in games than in the real-life confusion and misery that is real adolescent education.

One of the many ways The Magicians novels are superior to the Harry Potter ones is how they show how lousy one's twenties actually are, including the "wait, this is what all the fuss was about?!" feeling when starting post-collegiate life.

 

[Staffan]

One of the many ways The Magicians novels are superior to the Harry Potter ones is how they show how lousy one's twenties actually are, including the "wait, this is what all the fuss was about?!" feeling when starting post-collegiate life.

No-one told you life was gonna be this way.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No-one told you life was gonna be this way.

Oh, man, imagine if they could have just thrown Ross off the edge of the planet. That would have made Friends so much better.

 

[Micah Sweet]

No-one told you life was gonna be this way.

Clap'clap'clap'clap!

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Adolescent shenanigans. They're always better in games than in the real-life confusion and misery that is real adolescent education.

My problem with settings where adults pretend to be teens is they can get away with being creepy about romancing other kids. That is such a red flag about the person in real life that I would stop being friends with them.

 

[billd91]

My problem with settings where adults pretend to be teens is they can get away with being creepy about romancing other kids. That is such a red flag about the person in real life that I would stop being friends with them.

…Are you making the assumption that any adult playing a teen in a romance is a creeper? Or are you going on something else?

 

[Reynard]

Not all roleplayers inhabit characters. A lot of gaming is more authorial. As such, I don't think we can say that any example of a grown up adult talking about their teenage character's love life is creepy. I mean, grown ups write teen romance all the time.