Harry Potter RPG?

[The Grumpy Celt]

Cant say I've herd that quote from her...

I was making a joke. We'll have to see how it all works out. A lack of an RPG would be an odd oversight considering that HP has been branded onto so much else.

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

Personally, I hope to never see an official HP RPG. Ya, I know the arguments that it would bring in new blood to the rpg market. But, in my opinion, that's WotC's job. As industry leader they need to market 4th edition to younger players.

The problem is that kids now days play console and computer games. How do you market to them. When we were young there were comic books and commercials and saturday morning cartoons. Whose children read comic books? Does your child even read books, and by that I know kids are literate (for the most part) but do they read for fun?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Does your child even read books, and by that I know kids are literate (for the most part) but do they read for fun?

Hence the whole "hey, kids read HP for fun, this is a game that requires reading, let's put this chocolate and peanut butter together."

 

[DM-Rocco]

I would think a Harry Potter game could exist fairly well without the use of the main characters. In the grand scheme of things we have only been introduced to such a small portion of the Wizarding world, Britain being chief among it all. Mention of wizarding schools throughout the world could come into play, such as Beaubaton and Durmstrang and countless others. I'm sure Wizards in other areas of the world have very different problems to deal with than Voldemort. I easily see this RPG as feasibly possible.

True, but there is one thing I hope to never see, the Texas Wizarding school.

One thing I hate more than any is when you take kids from around the world and put them on an international team or school or whatever, and somehow, someone from Texas ends up in the movie and he has a southern draw, wields 6 shooters and a laso. I submit Mighty Ducks 2 as a minor example. The result was a kid who, you guessed it, hit the ice with a lasso instead of a stick and roped the other teams players. WTF!?

I think it would be cool if they had a RPG, but I would be suspect to play it if they had guns and hokey 20th century technology. I am glad she did not go for guns and such in her books, as she easily could have done. At the very least I think I would buy a Harry Potter RPG just to get a new system of magic for the players to use, or to be used against the players.

 

[Quartz]

You can model Harry Potter very easily in the Hero System - magic is essentially a VPP with Gestures, Incantations, and OAF: Wand. Not all wizards have all of these Limitations.

 

[ssampier]

Right. That's why she hates them... her DM was cruel, she never made it higher than level 7 wizard.

Or she was the original Black Leaf.

 

[Ace32]

True, but there is one thing I hope to never see, the Texas Wizarding school.

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I think it would be cool if they had a RPG, but I would be suspect to play it if they had guns and hokey 20th century technology. I am glad she did not go for guns and such in her books, as she easily could have done. At the very least I think I would buy a Harry Potter RPG just to get a new system of magic for the players to use, or to be used against the players.

Ok, slightly off-topic, but: an American wizard who used his wand like a cowboy dueling with pistols would have been a fun gimmick . I could totally have seen an exchange student showing up to recklessly rough up a few Death Eaters to fill out the WW2 analogy in the HP series.

Of course, the presence of such a character would've only needlessly added a new subplot to a book that was looking to close more than it opened...

 

[Felix]

Well, she could "pull a Lucas" and show everything leading up to the murder of the Potters and Voldemort's original death.

To her credit, she mentioned on her website that all the people who have been suggesting she write some prequils have been "watching too much Star Wars". She'll not do it.

True, but there is one thing I hope to never see, the Texas Wizarding school.

I think you must refer to the Big Spring Wizard Academy and Tire Center. They turn out some damned good mechanics.

But I as well would prefer to keep Wizarding in a Harry Potter universe in the Old World. Between the Atlantic and the Urals, between Scotland and the Sahara. Unless we're talking about Australia. I think Australian wizards would be the best thing to hit RPGs since the hyphen introduced "playing" to "role".

 

[theredrobedwizard]

I think Australian wizards would be the best thing to hit RPGs since the hyphen introduced "playing" to "role".

"Oi, I'm gonna use a transmogrification charm on this 'ere croc, by crackey; that oughta piss it off. Look out, this kinda croc was created by the forced magical breeding of a normal african croc with a porcupine and a platypus; you'll want to watch out for its venom filled teeth and razor sharp quills."

I think the American gunslinger wizard would've been much more entertaining. "He's using two wands at once, what a man *swoon*" say all the Hogwarts ladytypes.

-TRRW

 

[I'm A Banana]

True, but there is one thing I hope to never see, the Texas Wizarding school.

I think cowboy wizards would be only slightly less awesome than cowboy samurai, personally.