Dream Settings (Publishers Take NOTE!)

[Neo]

I'd like to see a Sword of Truth RPG based on Terry Goodkind's books. Imagine classes like war wizard, dream walker, boundry warden, seeker of truth, and especially mord-sith (the ultimate mage-killers).

Yeah, a SoT RPG would be awesome.

Sword of Truth is another series i have just been hearing about, my RP group play twice each week, once where i GM for them as i have for years... and the again where one of the players in my group wanted to try his hand at Gm'ing, apparently a lot of his ideas for our camapaign were inspired by those books, which he keeps raving about.

 

[Glaurung]

I have to agree with Randolpho:

Deathgate Cycle! - this was a great series and would adapt well to d20. I once tried to adapt it to an Ars Magica setting, but that was sort of a mess...

Rose of the Prophet- I like how th gods and the world was set out, could be adapted to d20 rather easily.

Sword of Truth - one of my favorite series

Babylon 5 -the original gaming system wasn't that great, I'm sure d20 could make it better

Also, I'd like to see Darksun and Planscape revamped

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Once d20 Modern comes out, then we could see a number of GURPS-like sourcebooks for a number of settings:

Dark Angel
Stargate
James Bond
a sourcebook for action movies - "ACTION! d20"

All would need some relatively minor additions/alterations to them if using d20 Modern (I assume, based on some of the mini-games we've seen in Polyhedron lately), so more room could be devoted in the books for background material.

B5 d20 is a cool idea, but at least one attempt for a fan-based conversion that I know of, and which has a Yahoo group that has been dead for months, fizzled fairly quickly. It could be as the series grows distant in memory, with no real word as to whether Legends of the Rangers will be made into a new series, people are losing interest in B5 in general. Use a cross between the Star Wars d20 system and d20 Modern (or d20 Call of Cthulhu) and you may be more thn halfway there. Same thing with Dune d20.

 

[Neo]

Dragonriderds of Pern would be a nice non magic setting with a twist...

Fanbased conversion are great and all but unless they are regarding something for which their is a vast amount of freely available info, such as LOTR, then their isn't really enough info available for folks to use as say their would be for those who had the cooperation of the creators or owned the license, nor the resources to produce the eye candy, and pictures that make the books one of those you rarely leave out of reach for long.

Babylon 5 fading from memory may well attribute to the lack of interest where fan conversion go as you say. But why no publisher has picke dup this setting for a D20 sci fi game is beyond me, considering how well developed, detailed, and beautiful it was... i mean Shadows, Vorlons... mimbari, narn.... the drac, corrutive earth gov, the Psi corp..... what more do people want...it's BEGGING for D20 treatment i tell ya BEGGING FOR IT!

when i think of how the games, genre and setting i love could be presented, by some of my favourite games producers... it brings me to tears almost to think of the abject lack of interest most of them show in making the attempt.

I mean i know most want to explore their own avenues, and develop their own things, and don't want to work under the restraints most licenses impose on their creativity and desired direction for the items... but GUYS COME ON!!!! throw us a bone once in a while... B5, FALLOUT, DUNE.....MARVEL.... We want them! and more..... pretty please!!!!

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Duh. I forgot some more d20 stuff I'd like to see.

Already mentioned:

Black Company - oh yeah, this would be great. It wouldn't be that tough to do in 3e. The Company "tame wizards" would be mostly illusionists (Goblin & One-Eye, for examples) (along the lines of what Birthright did) or multiclassed characters, while the Taken (at least the original ones) would be either very high-level or even epic-level casters with a Taken template. Much of the rest of the setting could easily use D&D rules with little in the way of change.

Ringworld - actually, a game base in Niven's "Known Space" in general would be great. What I've seen of Chaosium's Ringworld effort way back, maybe 20 years ago, looked very good, so the setting can be done very well as an RPG. The Ringworld itself could be the ultimate setting; remember how there was the huge ocean with life-sized "maps" of the planets in the Solar System? Maybe there could be more such "maps" in that ocean, where the PCs start out. Anyway, issue 50 of Dragon had an article converting Kzinti to AD&D. Worth checking out.

Stuff not mentioned (or if it was, I missed it; sorry):

d20 Dying Earth
d20 Jack of Shadows
d20 Amber
d20 Conan (actually, just have Vincent Darlage get his Conan d20 site published)
d20 Birthright (I've still to see a conversion I like)
d20 Al-Qadim
d20 Tekumel/Empire of the Petal Throne
d20 King Arthur

 

[Neo]

Duh. I forgot some more d20 stuff I'd like to see.
Stuff not mentioned (or if it was, I missed it; sorry):

d20 Birthright (I've still to see a conversion I like)
d20 King Arthur

birthright would be nice, though frankly ANY set of rules that allowed settlements to be made and run all the way upto kingdoms, without it being a spin off game in it's own right, would be cool. rules of this kind in general seem to be a very definite ABSENCE in every setting... and quite a lot of us i'm sure would love to have the rules to do everything from running a business upto running a town or kingdom, improving it, levying taxes, building improvements, hiring and managing staff and defenders, having random events occur, that occasionally require the PC's attnetion and so forth..

King Arthur... if Chaosium's fantastic version of Pendragon was D20'ed that would be nice as that game was quality.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Pendragon is, in my opinon, the most beautiful RPG ever written. It used Chaosium BRP system, though, which I've never been a big fan of in any of its incarnations. The best use of it is in Call of Cthulhu.

Glorantha d20 would be nice, if weird. But I'd love to see the original Runequest, the one that was the prototype for the BRP, get reprinted or updated. I'd like to see what it was like (never saw the earliest version; always read how many RQ fans thought it superior to what came later).

 

[hellbender]

Black Company all the way! It has been attempted, but never got off the ground. Glen Cook is going to be a guest speaker at the St. Charles Science Fiction/Fantasy Society again.

http://www.scsffs.org/scsffsevents.htm

(hint, hint)

Also, a setting inspired by Greek (or Norse) mythology would be neat.

Maybe a setting based on the works of Arthur Rackham would be handy too.


hellbender

 

[Tiefling]

I would definitely buy a "Song of Ice and Fire" d20 campaign setting! These George R. R. Martin books are some of the best fantasy literature I have read. It would make for a great low-magic, gritty setting.

I'm just itching for an ASOIAF setting too, but I don't think I'd do it in d20, it just doesn't seem right (my interest in the system is fading in general).

 

[Acmite]

Re: Re: Dream Settings (Publishers Take NOTE!)

A decent Marvel Superheroes Game would be great. One that has a good system and is going to stay around for a long time.
I agree that Babylon 5 needs a decent system as well.

Didn't Monte Cook once mention he was working on something involving DC and Marvel? I'm not sure if it was for d20, though.