I need a list of RPGs based on (in)famous media!

Knightfall

World of Kulan DM
I'm putting together a presentation on TTRPGs for my Psychology of Creativity night class. As part of the presentation, I want to compile a list of role-playing games that are based on well known PI from other media sources.

Here's the list that has been compiled by me and suggestions from this thread.

Comics

Albedo
2000 AD [Judge Dredd]
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs [a.k.a. Xenozoic Tales]
DC Universe [Batman, Superman, etc.]
Elfquest
Eponymous comics by Petri Hiltunen, the [called Praedor]
Fanhunter [Spanish]
Justice Machine
Marvel Universe [Iron Man, Spiderman, etc.]
Mouse Guard
Prince Valiant [comic strip]
Sláine
TMNT
Usagi Yojimbo

Computer Games

BattleTech
Champions Online *
Diablo
Dragon Age: Origins
EverQuest
Myth series [by Bungie Software]
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Wizardry
World of Warcraft

*Was a TTRPG first.

Fiction

A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
Arthurian Legend
Beowulf
Black Company, the (Glen Cook)
Book of the New Sun, the (Gene Wolfe)
Buck Rogers (Philip Francis Nowlan)
Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)
Chronicles of Amber, the (Roger Zelazny)
Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard)
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Dragonlance *
Dream Park (Larry Niven and Steven Barnes)
Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) [summer 2010]
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dying Earth, the (Jack Vance)
Eberron *
Eternal Champion [Corum | Elric | Hawkmoon] (Michael Moorcock)
Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen, the (Rudolph Erich Raspe)
Forgotten Realms *
Gatecrash [called Gaterunner]
James Bond (Ian Fleming)
Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber)
Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Planet of Adventure (Jack Vance)
Ravenloft *
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
Shakespeare (called On Stage!)
Terran Trade Authority (Stewart Cowley)
Thieves' World / Sanctuary
Viagens Interplanetarias (L. Sprague de Camp)
Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Wheel of Time, the (Robert Jordan)
Wild Cards!
Zorro (Johnston McCulley)

*An official D&D campaign setting. (Note: It is amazing how many people who read the novels aren't aware that the worlds are also D&D settings.)

Manga/Anime

Dragonball + Dragonball Z
Dragon Half
Ghost Hunter
Legend of Crystania
Mobile Suit Gundam
Record of Lodoss War
Robotech
Scrapped Princess
Weapons of the Gods [manhua]

Movies/TV

Aliens
Angel
Army of Darkness
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (new version)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dallas
Doctor Who
Ghostbusters
Hong Kong martial arts movies (called Feng Shui)
Indiana Jones
Lawnmower Man
Leverage
Red Dwarf
Serenity/Firefly
Smallville
Stargate SG-1
Star Trek
Star Wars
Star Wreck
Supernatural
Xena/Hercules

Thanks for all the suggestions... if there are any more then feel free to post what you've heard of.

Cheers!

Knightfall
 
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Slaine is a comic Mongoose did an RPG of.
Dresden Files RPg is coming out this summer.
There is a Xena/Hercules RPG based on the TV shows.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel both got RPGs from Eden.
 

Moorcock's Hawkmoon and Corum books also got the RPG treatment from Chaosium.

Nivens & Barnes' Dream Park was made into an RPG by R. Talsorian games, and Nivens' Ringworld was made into an RPG as well.

Stewart Cowley's "Terran Trade Authority" book series of illustrations and fiction depicting a space-opera setting has been made into at least 2 different rpgs.

Justice Machine, an independent comic, was made into a setting for Palladium's Heroes, Inc. RPG.

Space: 1889 is generally inspired by the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

Spaceship Zero is inspired by the original Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon, as well as other similar serials and movies.

The Wildcards! shared-world superheroic setting has its own RPG.

Toon and BESM are inspired by genres of cartoons, not particular IP in particular.

Steve Jackson Games' flagship product, GURPS, features several licensed settings: Lois McMaster Bujold's adventures of Miles Vorkosigan (GURPS Vorkosigan); L. Sprague de Camp's stories of planet Krishna (GURPS Planet Krishna), Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (GURPS Discworld), E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels (GURPS Lensman), Jack Vance's tales of Tschai (GURPS Planet of Adventure), Gene Wolfe's New Sun chronicles (GURPS New Sun), and even games like Bungie Software's Myth (GURPS Myth), Firaxis Games' Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (GURPS Alpha Centauri). R. Talsorian Games' Castle Falkenstein (GURPS Castle Falkenstein), Pinnacle Entertainment Group's Deadlands (GURPS Deadlands), and a version of the classic sci-fi game about the colonization of the solar system (GURPS Traveller).

And of course, properties like Star Wars and Star Trek have inspired MULTIPLE licensed RPGs.
 

There's Champions... Though that's more of a TTRPG that was licensed/purchased for use in a MMORG...

Also, Record of the Lodos War, an video-game/anime/manga/book-series based on a DnD story hour published in a Japanese TTRPG magazine during the 1980s.
 


Battletech seem to be missing.

Also, Record of Lodoss War was originall based on D+D, but eventually spawned it's own RPG based off of the manga/anime
 
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Y'know, even though I've been in the hobby since '77, this thread has been an education- I didn't know about several of these.

And while I'm not in your class, I'm finding this VERY interesting.
 

I don't know if you're interested in this at all, but there are also games that started off as RPGs and became CCGs (like Mutant Chronicles & Doomtrooper), or vice versa, like Legend of the Five Rings (which got its own RPG and became 3Ed's setting for Oriental Adventures).

Or how Crimson Skies was first released as a wargame which spawned a videogame and a tabletop minis game.
 


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