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

[The Shadow]

http://piratesofdarkwater.net/buriedtreasure/podw-rpg-worldbook.pdf

http://piratesofdarkwater.net/buriedtreasure/podw-rpg-charactersheets.pdf

Always happy to help out a fellow fan. Get it before it vanishes in a jitatin crash!

Interesting, but it seems to be missing character creation and advancement details - it's not clear how to generate ability scores, nor how how many skill points characters have.

Technically has been licensed, though it was for a series of Choose Your Own Narnian Adventure books with some game-like elements, as I recall.

Oh yeah! I remember playing one of those books! (It wasn't that great, sorry to say.) I wouldn't say it counts as a TTRPG, for sure.

 

[Reynard]

I think Assassin's Creed might make an interesting tabletop RPG.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think Assassin's Creed might make an interesting tabletop RPG.

Yeeeaaaahhhh!

 

[Undrave]

Is there an RPG out there with a focus on rescueing people? Preferably with sci-fi gadgetry Something like Thunderbirds or even Rescue Heroes or Burning Ranger? (or Tomica Heroes if you want to go obscure) I feel like that's a vein that hasn't really been tapped yet? Maybe the Transformers RPG needs a Rescue Bots expension...

Everyone's dodging the elephant in the room, eh?

The series Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was supposed to emulate?

The one The Magicians trilogy was supposed to be the college-age version of? (Though that one has actual D&D spells in it.)

The one that's a magical version of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

Augh no... the world building in that franchise is attrocious.

 

[Teo Twawki]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

 

[MGibster]

Necromunda - For those of you who don't know, Necromunda was a skirmish level table top miniatures war game released by Games Workshop originally released in 1995. The game takes place in the underhive, the lower portions of a hive city, massive structures plumbing the depths of the planet and kilometers into the sky, and the players control their own gangs vying for territory and power. Like a lot of GW properties, it's the setting is rich, interesting, and there's a lot of things you can do in Necromunda.

 

[The Shadow]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

Uh... huh. I can honestly say that's a setting that had never even occurred to me to game in. I'm having trouble imagining adventures other than dealing with aliens from Planet X.

Buckaroo is the sort of omnicompetent hero you wouldn't want anywhere near your PCs, that's for sure!

 

[overgeeked]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

That’s awesome. I love pulp heroes. Doc Savage, The Shadow, Buckaroo Banzai, Perry Rhodan, and all the rest. BB would fit right in with any of them. Really, any pulp RPG would suit him perfectly. If you dig Fate, the Atomic Robo RPG is about the best pulp iteration for it.

 

[Aldarc]

Some IPs that I thought would make for decent TTRPG settings:

• Lego's Bionicle
• League of Legends
• Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

 

[thullgrim]

GW’s Mordheim as a mega dungeon style game.

 

[Carlsen Chris]

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves the RPG

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Fortnite: Save the World. Building strongholds against the husks and mist monsters, the original idea before the superfamous battle-royal.

 

[Undrave]

Some IPs that I thought would make for decent TTRPG settings:

• Lego's Bionicle
• League of Legends
• Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Any LEGO setting would work, really!

 

[Wolfram stout]

So, my idea started out as a silly one then I thought about it some more and think it is an interesting idea...maybe not a good idea, but an interesting one.

The World of Dungeons and Dragons. The cartoon setting.

But that might be interesting to have an official setting based in the World of the show and with options to play with "Real World" backgrounds.

Or if you want a more serious take on the concept a Setting for either Fionavar Tapestry, Or really make a splash go with Quag Keep.

 

[TheHand]

I'll throw in another vote for Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. It would be one of those books I might not ever play but would make a fascinating read.

I'd also enjoy seeing a book or even supplement for one of my favorite fantasy settings: Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series.

(Almost voted Chronicles of Amber, then I remembered the Amber Diceless thing in the 90s...)

 

[Davies]

Is there an RPG out there with a focus on rescueing people?

Not a licensed one, but MCG's First Responders supplement for the Cypher System is exactly this.

I'd also enjoy seeing a book or even supplement for one of my favorite fantasy settings: Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series.

Vlad Taltos was statted up in an article in Dragon #220.

 

[Aldarc]

Is there an RPG out there with a focus on rescueing people? Preferably with sci-fi gadgetry Something like Thunderbirds or even Rescue Heroes or Burning Ranger? (or Tomica Heroes if you want to go obscure) I feel like that's a vein that hasn't really been tapped yet? Maybe the Transformers RPG needs a Rescue Bots expension...

Hammerheads for Cortex Prime. It's explicitly inspired by Thunderbirds and about rescuing people.

 

[Undrave]

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves the RPG

By Paizo!

 

[Aldarc]

By Paizo!

Why not? The posters used the Pathfinder Intellect Devourer.

 

[Undrave]

Hammerheads for Cortex Prime. It's explicitly inspired by Thunderbirds and about rescuing people.

Neat! Thanks!