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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8067544" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>There were never any Highlander movies after the first one.</p><p></p><p>They never made any Alien movies after Alien 3. (And that last one may be apocryphal.)</p><p></p><p>And there were never any Oz books other than the ones L. Frank Baum wrote.</p><p></p><p>Although it's hard to imagine today, the Oz books were the Harry Potter books of the early 20th century, with Baum's non-Oz books doing very poorly in comparison and he was badgered -- as he says quite openly in the forewords to several of the Oz books -- into writing more Oz books. Like Arthur Conan Doyle, he actually tried to end the series -- he moved Dorothy's whole family to the Emerald City and cut off all communication to the outside world, so he could not further recount adventures relayed to him from there, but his readers pointed out that, hello, radio transmissions can get across the Deadly Desert, Baum.</p><p></p><p>Given how much content there is in even the 15 Baum books alone (counting a book of short stories, but not counting his newspaper strip or spin-off Woggle-Bug book), it is sort of surprising that there hasn't been a more comprehensive generic setting made out of it. (Especially now, when making kid-friendly games or games where violence isn't the right answer to all problems are more popular than ever.)</p><p></p><p>Of course, given how many people, both in the RPG industry or not, seem to think the only way to adapt the Oz books is to make them violent and/or sexy, maybe it's a good thing no one's really given it a serious try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8067544, member: 11760"] There were never any Highlander movies after the first one. They never made any Alien movies after Alien 3. (And that last one may be apocryphal.) And there were never any Oz books other than the ones L. Frank Baum wrote. Although it's hard to imagine today, the Oz books were the Harry Potter books of the early 20th century, with Baum's non-Oz books doing very poorly in comparison and he was badgered -- as he says quite openly in the forewords to several of the Oz books -- into writing more Oz books. Like Arthur Conan Doyle, he actually tried to end the series -- he moved Dorothy's whole family to the Emerald City and cut off all communication to the outside world, so he could not further recount adventures relayed to him from there, but his readers pointed out that, hello, radio transmissions can get across the Deadly Desert, Baum. Given how much content there is in even the 15 Baum books alone (counting a book of short stories, but not counting his newspaper strip or spin-off Woggle-Bug book), it is sort of surprising that there hasn't been a more comprehensive generic setting made out of it. (Especially now, when making kid-friendly games or games where violence isn't the right answer to all problems are more popular than ever.) Of course, given how many people, both in the RPG industry or not, seem to think the only way to adapt the Oz books is to make them violent and/or sexy, maybe it's a good thing no one's really given it a serious try. [/QUOTE]
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