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With the old James Bond RPG, a big part of the draw was lavishly produced (for the time) adventures mimicking the movies but with vital...

It is very rare that a licensee is allowed to add to canon. I’ve been on the licensing end a couple of times and everything has to be...

A good licensed game will construct the mechanics to suit the setting (rather than just shoe-horning the setting into an existing set of...

As a person who is generally happy to play a genre-flexible system (Savage Worlds) and that system happens to have good support for...

The main draws to me are 1) a setting people care about and 2) shared baseline expectations of how things work. I do think those are...

Only laughing at that bit.

IP licences are popular because a studio/editor/media went through a lot of work and trouble to make a setting with (hopefully)...

I used work in the sense of a literary or artistic composition. i.e. Star Wars is a work of fiction. It's fine to be influenced by...

Partly because it’s not just a game, it’s a reference book full of info about the world/setting/universe you love. You aren’t just...

In a thread (not here) where someone made a negative comment about some minor aspect of a beautiful woman's appearance, someone replied...

True, but I don't care for online resources because I'm terminally online for my part-time work as a proofreader and game developer. I...

For me, in most cases, the draw is getting a fairly comprehensive overview of the IP under one cover (or in one box set). All of the...

Because we have imprinted on a media and formed an unhealthy attachment to it. Ref: Me, and 40K.

Some of it is access to license specific world building, including some heavy lifting when it comes to mechanical prep for certain...

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