What dead game would you resurrect?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is it? Look, I'm not going to besmirch the game as I've got a lot of fun memories playing it, remind me tell you about Fumbles the mutant scorpion sometime, but I don't know how much it really resonates with the young, hip kids these days.

Last Kids on Earth, Kibo and the Age of Wonderbeasts and other cartoons do Gamma World as well as anything the Baby Boomers or Gen X grew up with.

Gamma World could certainly sustain at least a single adventure/setting book like WotC has put out for other settings in recent years.

 

[Tonguez]

I was joking with my brother that the Bastion system is a stealth Birthright playtest.

then its the absolutely worst way to try and do it!

 

[Parmandur]

"not nothing" is a far cry from "a d20 treatment."

It is a treatment, albeit not much.

 

[Parmandur]

Last Kids on Earth, Kibo and the Age of Wonderbeasts and other cartoons do Gamma World as well as anything the Baby Boomers or Gen X grew up with.

Gamma World could certainly sustain at least a single adventure/setting book like WotC has put out for other settings in recent years.

A slipcase set like the Planescape one could work very well: get your post-Apocalypse Gazateer, your post-Apocalypse Bestiary, and an Adventure path showing how you can play in this world.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Dragonquest

If someone could fix some of the perennial problems with the magic and make non-random character gen as at least an option, I'd be right with you.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Have you played the Sasquatch Games version? Is it any good?

It has virtues and problems. Its just different enough to have annoyed heck out of a lot of the extent fandom, and Sasquatch's lack of follow-up didn't help.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I was just reading on DTRPG that there was a problem with them delivering on the Kickstarter.

To a point. The corebook is fine, but the tier add-ons were A) Late, and B) More lightweight than I think people had reason to expect.

 

[Tonguez]

Last Kids on Earth, Kibo and the Age of Wonderbeasts and other cartoons do Gamma World as well as anything the Baby Boomers or Gen X grew up with.

Gamma World could certainly sustain at least a single adventure/setting book like WotC has put out for other settings in recent years.

Heh, never would have associated Kibo and the Wonderbeasts with Gamma World, but yep it fits the weird post-apocalyptic mutant dynamic. The 2010 version referenced the Large Hadron Collider ripping the multiverse, I wonder if a 2020s version would put the blame on engineered Pandemics…

 

[Thomas Shey]

In my opinion, the best part of Alternity is the system so it doesn't make any sense to heavily revise it if you are going to bring it back. But I admit to havinga fondness for the often overly complex and convoluted design ethos of the90s: Shadowrun, Deadlands, Earthdawn, Alternity, etc...

It isn't so much simplified overall as having kind of slide sideways in design ethic. They got rid of a couple things that got constant complaints back in the day, but I don't think everyone would consider their replacements simplifications.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I Likewise, Immortal: the Invisible War was interesting at the idea level, but both the mechanics and the actual fleshed out world (and vocabulary) did not do the pitch justice. *Geist is an interesting spiritual successor, but not really a second attempt at the same thing.

I'm not sold even the mechanics were that bad, overall; there were just a few places where they didn't seem to produce the intended result, and of course the compulsion to rename every bloody thing didn't help.

My feelings about the setting are a lot more complex and hard to express.