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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7939891" data-attributes="member: 6779310">For me, only Star Frontiers, in an all-zebulon's mode, really appeals.I don't think most of the mechanical sets are all that good; most are better written than AD&D 1E, but that's a super low bar IMO.While I won't vote for it, a revised (mechanically) Buck XXVc could be a lot of fun...But it's got a bunch of legal issues. First, it's a derivative work produced under license. So the fact that it's copyright TSR merely means the (rather financially desperate) Dille Family Trust can't unilaterally reissue it... but neither can TSR's purchasers, as it's derived from a different copyright and trademark IP set.Second, the trustee has seen it flop before.Third, it's not the same setting as the original novel, the major runs of the comics, nor the movie & series (1979-1981). So it's not even really leveraging nostalgia for any of those.Conan was licensed to TSR, and there is a new licensee: Modiphius. Modiphius has little reason to allow the TSR flavor... especially since there's a Retroclone of it: ZeFRS.Indiana Jones is also with Disney now. But TSR wasn't even the most recent licensee for RPGs... that would be WEG... but the WEG that was is gone. (The new WEG is the company that bought many of the games when old WEG died... but not the licenses.)Alternity was either sold or durably licensed off, and a new edition is in print.FASERIP would require negotiating with Disney. And it's probably not worth Disney's staff lawyer's time to write a "not interested" letter back. Worse still, the copyright is Marvel Comics Group - Disney could reprint it without TSR, since it was done under TSR copyrights. And there are a couple of retroclones of it (4C is probably the best known one)EPT was published by TSR, but Professor Barker later published via other publishers, so TSR probably doesn't have rights there, either.Missing from the list:DragonLance Fifth Age.Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game.Both of those, I love. Both I would have voted for.</blockquote>

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