What Licensed RPG Do You Wish Existed But Doesn't?

Cordwainer Fish · Feb 1, 2023

Fish Police.

... Okay, seriously. Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile.

Old Fezziwig · Feb 1, 2023

Cordwainer Fish said:
... Okay, seriously. Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile.

Every time I think I'm well read, I discover something new. Thanks!

aco175 · Feb 1, 2023

Reynard said:
Flag on the play.

I was going with the new open CC license. The old, D20 thing does not count.

Snarf Zagyg · Feb 1, 2023

Cordwainer Fish said:
Fish Police.

... Okay, seriously. Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile.

I homebrewed an entire alternative psionics system for 1e based primarily off of that series.

Great choice. I also don’t think there has ever been a full adaptation of the Covenant/Land series.

Reynard · Feb 1, 2023

aco175 said:
I was going with the new open CC license. The old, D20 thing does not count.

I thought I was pretty clear: never licensed.

MGibster · Feb 1, 2023

This is a tough one, but I think I have a few.

System Shock - I think it's a pretty good video game series (there were two) and it'd make for a decent TTRPG adaptation. We could call the person running the game SHODAN instead of GM.

Newsflesh - Mira Grant wrote a zombie series. ("Groan, not another zombie game, MGibster." Just you hush!) This is a world where the zombie apocalypse came and went and society is chugging along living with their new reality. Any mammal that's 40 pounds or heavier turns into a zombie so Alaska was abandoned because, you know, zombie grizzly bears. The fun thing about these zombies is the more of them there are they smarter they get. They won't help you with your algebra homework, but in large groups they can coordinate and plan simple ambushes.

Old Fezziwig · Feb 1, 2023

MGibster said:
We could call the person running the game SHODAN instead of GM.

That's kind of neat in that it suggests a somewhat oppositional framework for the game.

James Gasik · Feb 1, 2023

Godzilla. After the Legendary movies, I really wanted there to be a game where you could play investigators (perhaps MONARCH agents?) who are trying to find out the truth about the existence of the various Kaiju, and let the players have their own "pet" Kaiju that can take part in giant monster battles.