Mongoose in 2006 (and a bit on the Industry in General)
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jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Bretbo said:
Rolemaster is still in print and being supported by ICE, so I'm pretty sure that you can cross that off your list. Ditto Glorantha (as it's already public record that it will be part of the Runequest re-release). I'd say Dune... but ti's been done once and only got Herbert fetishists excited. So...
I'm going to guess Chronicles of Narnia (it would be great tie-in with the new film) or Harry Potter. I can't think of any other publisher 'doing' any specifically kid-friendly fantasy (i.e., fantasy games specifically aimed at a younger age group) at the moment, and both of those would certainly qualify.
Ranger REG
Explorer
Not enough for the next five generations of gamers.rpghost said:
It's more hope than an educated guess. Decipher at the moment is screwing it up.rpghost said:
Then again, I'm not in favor of a paperless society.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
buzz said:
Perhaps for Decipher but the MERP material from ICE was top notch.
Cthulhu's Librarian
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JoeGKushner said:
Agreed 100%. I wish I still had the MERP books that I owned in middle/high school. I don't know what ever happened to them.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
buzz said:
Wow. We must be coming from completely different fields than as some of it seemed better source material than the novels. Arnor, Gondor, and many of the other mega-source books, like the Shire, were just packed full of little things that were easy to ignore in the books but came to life in the little things.
buzz
Adventurer
Oh, I'm not talking about providing useful source info; they're far better than Decipher, certainly, seeing as they were not limited to just The Hobbit and LOTR. I just mean the system didn't reflect the source material accurately, IMO.JoeGKushner said:
To do LOTR right, IMO, you need a system that, mechanically, gives Pippin as much value as Gandalf. Having magic be plot-driven would also be a plus. I.e., one should be able to replicate the Fellowship w/o essentially becoming: "Divine entity and epic-level PCs protect a bunch of 1st-level commoners from dying." The D&D-like systems used by MERP and Decipher's LOTR fail in this way, IMO.
trancejeremy
Adventurer
jdrakeh said:
While Dune was done, it was done in an extremely limited release only to people at Gen-Con. 100-300 copies, or something like that?
Which is why I think it might be it, because that book has indeed been something of a 'holy grail', going for $100-300 on ebay or so.
Hasbro has the license for Narnia toys and games; I'm not sure if it's just board games, or if they include RPGs as board games.
