Harry Potter RPG?
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the black knight
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A Harry potter game would be awesome!! I wanna be Gandalf!!
Steel_Wind
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There was a CCG. I cannot imagine that Hasbro did not ask for an RPG license, as it is a natural stepping stone game to get kids on the path to D&D. So I think it was requested - and denied.
And that's the regrettable part. It's not that I really want to play a "Wizarding World" campaign - but we'd all be well served by a million kids being dumped into the hobby by a new gateway game.
I would speculate that Ms. Rowling did not like the idea as FRPG systems are all about quantifying and explaining magic and magical systems in the world. Inevitably, that reduces the mysterious to the known and inherently limits the author in terms of their creativity.
If I was writing an active series of books based upon the unknown and permitted unlimited scope in terms of what I wanted magic to be able to do and not do - I wouldn't want it codified either folks.
And the inevitable "Hogwarts" setting book. Complete with maps and explanations as to how the school works and classes and power levels based on year you are in. Etc.. It really does constrain an author and make it feel like somebody else has taken over your IP. For the possible return - she's vastly too wealthy to want the headaches it would cause.
Seeing as she does not need the money in the least, I'm not real confident that we will ever see one. Mind you, if she is truly done with her world (and I think she is leaving herself a way to come back to it in ten years or so) she may license it to Hasbro/WotC, now that she does not have to write in the world or feel constrained by what an RPG system would depict as the "rules".
And that's the regrettable part. It's not that I really want to play a "Wizarding World" campaign - but we'd all be well served by a million kids being dumped into the hobby by a new gateway game.
I would speculate that Ms. Rowling did not like the idea as FRPG systems are all about quantifying and explaining magic and magical systems in the world. Inevitably, that reduces the mysterious to the known and inherently limits the author in terms of their creativity.
If I was writing an active series of books based upon the unknown and permitted unlimited scope in terms of what I wanted magic to be able to do and not do - I wouldn't want it codified either folks.
And the inevitable "Hogwarts" setting book. Complete with maps and explanations as to how the school works and classes and power levels based on year you are in. Etc.. It really does constrain an author and make it feel like somebody else has taken over your IP. For the possible return - she's vastly too wealthy to want the headaches it would cause.
Seeing as she does not need the money in the least, I'm not real confident that we will ever see one. Mind you, if she is truly done with her world (and I think she is leaving herself a way to come back to it in ten years or so) she may license it to Hasbro/WotC, now that she does not have to write in the world or feel constrained by what an RPG system would depict as the "rules".
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Ranger REG
Explorer
If it takes the target off D&D and put it squarely on the Harry Potter RPG by certain conservative groups, I'm all for it.FATDRAGONGAMES said:
Rules-wise, I do not recommend using the existing 3e/d20/SRD rules. You need to simplify it, even if it means angering off the casually hardcore 3e fans (like I give an orc's ass about the militant ultra-hardcore D&D and SW anti-SAGA fans ... ooh).
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Or Mage the Word that Starts with the Letter A.carmachu said:
But Redhurst really is so close that anyone can, today, live out their dreams of an Harry Potter RPG in fine style.
Alnag
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I remember, there was a specualtion recently about the character of mongoose "holy grail of RPG". And one of the speculated options was actually Harry Potter. That might be possible, if the story of the boy is now acutally over. I would really like some progressive HP d20 version.
She knows about video games. I saw a news item regarding Deathly Hallows recently, and the one quote from Rowling was "If I've made one kid pick up a book instead of playing a playstation, it's all been worth it" or words to that effect.
Yuh huh...why don't you attack TV instead JK? At least you're interacting with a game console. Oh right...generation gap. TV is culturally accepted with your generation, so it's off the hook.
On the whole, it all sounds suspiciously to me like typical generation gap parent-think stuff. The game knockback sounds like she, like many others, is scared of the idea of RPGs, which is also a familiar thought pattern regarding D&D: any thought-crime could happen in them if played unsupervised. It's not going to stop the existence of distasteful HP fan fics outside of her creative control though, I'd assume.
That all sounds a lot more cynical than I intended it to come out.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
I'd partially agree, which is why I'd recommend going with a knock-off brand that's still high-quality, like Redhurst.
Basically, in a world of Ron/Snape/Hedwig slash-fic, an RPG would be one of the tamer things taht she could still exert a lot of control over.
Mongoose doing an H.P. game? Well, it is a Brittish RPG company I believe.
But didn't J.K. says RPGs lead kids into Satanism?
But didn't J.K. says RPGs lead kids into Satanism?
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