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The implication is still that because it had been done once, 25 years ago, that it can't be done again. Except, it is being done again.

But to make it definitive, let's list the properties we know are in development or have been optioned: Blades in the Dark: Blades in the Dark RPG is being adapted into a television series Exalted: Exalted – new live action TV Series announced - Jenkins & Tate Entertainment WoD: ‘World of...

And the other thing is... Hollywood is full of gamers. I'm not just taking actors. Directors, producers, writers. Critical Role is a product of this. I never suggested that it was huge and "chomping at the bit". Just pushing back on the notion that because there was True Blood, there's no need...

Maybe (considering how book sales reporting works). But how many Sookie novels were used as the basis for well known video games? How many were seen on the set of a major movie and caused a lawsuit? But overall the point was responding to the idea that because they tried it with VtM once, in...

Wait you don't know anything about RPGs? Like I said, creative properties such as those originating from tabletop role playing games have been made successfully into entertainment and other media. And the other way around. The fact that they're games doesn't make a difference; nobody's trying to...

I'll bite even though your game is getting really tiring. Glorantha Traveller's Imperium Earthdawn Shadowrun TORG The entire WoD Over the Edge In Nomine Kult Nephilim Underground Heavy Gear Tribe 8 Blue Planet Exalted I'll stop there, because otherwise I could go on quite a while. Each one...

I literally can't even with this. Yes, a TV show based off of a property that came from a role-playing game will have nothing to do with the game, as in the collection of rules that structure play. Any more than the output from playing the game will have anything to do with the game (since the...

Also, I will pass on this bit from a very well-known game designer:

I would guess that the built-in audience for a WoD game was bigger than that of the Stackhouse novels. Studios (especially those bankrolled by Netflix and Amazon) are picking up many properties with smaller built-in audiences - Shadow and Bone, the Expanse, etc. They want properties they can...

By that measure, True Blood didn't need to be based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries to be successful. Or the Lord of the Rings movies based on the Lord of the Rings. This is patently nonsense. This is nonsense too. It would be a show or movie about the property, of which the game was the...

Because, you know, once you've made one adaptation of a property you're prohibited from ever trying to do it again. Kindred the Embraced was over 25 years ago.

Not to mention the entirety of WoD and it's various NPCs. Heavy Gear and it's iconic NPCS (and Heavy Gear was turned into an animated series, albeit not a very good one) Tribe 8 for both metaplot and very well-defined NPCs (I'd actually commit various crimes if it meant a Tribe 8 series would...

You do know that there is an entire profession of people working in entertainment whose job it is to come up with this stuff, right?

The discussion at hand, as I see it, is if there will be an increase in television shows and movies based on TTRPGs. "Hollywood," in this case, is an abstraction - locality has little to do with entertainment production, especially now, and many successful shows and movies come out of studios...

I'd love to see the explanation for how RPG novelizations work...

Warp Films is supposed to be developing it, though I haven't seen any news since the announcement.

That's silly and short-sighted. "Hollywood moment" is an idiom. An aside from TV, the fact that Cyberpunk was adapted - faithfully - into a AAA video game is just as big of an accomplishment if not bigger. And then, on top of that, had a Netflix series based on it? That's not something to brush off.

So... The video game is based directly on the RPG. The anime contains elements that were in my own games, 30 years ago (including Sandistevan implants). It directly credits Mike Pondsmith. So it's not like some loose adaptation that you have to squint to see the relationship. How does this not...

You do know that Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a thing?

Blades in the Dark has been optioned for a television series. I'm not sure if it's actively in development right now. There was also interest ihunt and I know they put a lot of effort into trying to get a series out of it but it didn't pan out. Oh and I forgot Cyberpunk Edgerunners is actually...