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

[DrunkonDuty]

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.

Then you get players like me who will say "but I want to play a kaiju!" And I do.

 

[The Shadow]

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

I created a homebrew version of it for M&M 1e. It's one of those settings that just cries out to be gamed in! Though I concentrated more on the Galactic Milieu books.

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

Oooh! Interesting!! Of course, there's the burning question of "which era?"

Also, are the PCs from Earth? Native to the Land? Both? If the former, are they allowed to have white gold?

 

[Hex08]

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

This would be my first choice. Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed and Arcana Evolved borrowed some elements pretty heavily from it.

I also think John Scalzi's series The Interdependency or Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space books would be great settings for games.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The most surprisingly non-existent licensed rpg continues to be Mad Max, and while I can't say it's something I particularly need, if I was going to play a post-apocalyptic game I would want it to be a Road Warrior post-apocalyptic game.

 

[Hex08]

Oooh! Interesting!! Of course, there's the burning question of "which era?"

Also, are the PCs from Earth? Native to the Land? Both? If the former, are they allowed to have white gold?

My choice would be for it to be set during the First Chronicles, or at least before the Sunbane really set in. PC's from Earth could be an option but I think I would rather them from the Land and I would have to say a hard no on them having white gold.

 

[James Gasik]

Then you get players like me who will say "but I want to play a kaiju!" And I do.

At some point it would probably turn into a Tokusatsu game.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

It could use Toon, Daleks & Doctors, Traveller. It needs to be light and flexible, for maximum improvisation.

There is nothing else in the whole of fiction which more demands a giant random table than the Infinite Improbability Drive.

 

[The Shadow]

My choice would be for it to be set during the First Chronicles, or at least before the Sunbane really set in. PC's from Earth could be an option but I think I would rather them from the Land and I would have to say a hard no on them having white gold.

There's really so many possibilities! Back in High Lord Kevin's time for really epic stuff, the First Chronicles for more "normal" fantasy, the Sunbane era for post-apocalyptic, and so on. The time between White Gold Wielder and the Sunbane seems perfect, actually - there's almost no lore to contradict, and it was a long period of ups and downs.

I might just create a thread about this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There is nothing else in the whole of fiction which more demands a giant random table than the Infinite Improbability Drive.

Forty-two pages of it.

 

[aramis erak]

Simple rule: the license can be anything, but it can't have EVER had a licensed RPG.

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