What licenses are left?

[Tonguez]

they recently released a miniatures game.

heh, the irony of gigantic miniatures

 

[bedir than]

I think you could do the TV show Paradise as a Twilight:2000 game. It would be a bit more modern, slightly more sci-fi and a lot more enviro-pololypse

 

[Fenris-77]

I think the show Burn Notice would be magnificent Carved in Brindlewood. It's got the two layers of exposition and all those good things.

 

[aiouh]

I'm a UC Gundam fan (less so of the alternative universes, but the most recent ones have been decent). I'm not sure how well a TTRPG would work with the franchise, but i'm sure a wargame type thing could work. In fact, they recently released a miniatures game.

https://global.bandai-hobby.net/en-us/site/gundam-assemble/

Well I thought that one of the more exciting parts of Gundam isn't necessarily just the battles but the campaigns that go with it. "A small Squad trying to link up with the rest of the Federation behind Zeon lines" sounds a lot more involved than just "Here's a bunch of skirmishes"

 

[Fenris-77]

Well I thought that one of the more exciting parts of Gundam isn't necessarily just the battles but the campaigns that go with it. "A small Squad trying to link up with the rest of the Federation behind Zeon lines" sounds a lot more involved than just "Here's a bunch of skirmishes"

"Here's a bunch of skirmishes" is a crap idea for pretty much any RPG.

 

[Mr. Lahey]

The Principality of Nouvelle Averoigne was later moved to the Nation of Glantri in the mystara setting where Étienne d'Ambreville became the Headmaster of the Great School of Magic and features in Wrath of Immortals.

I guess I need to look more closely at Mystara.

 

[Celebrim]

One question people need to be asking is, "Is this the sort of IP which is so popular, that if there is no game for it, thousands of people will already of their own initiative adapt some other system to play in that, or at least, thousands of players will already have created PCs that are thinly veiled pastiches of some character in the IP."?

Another good question might be, "Is this genre one where there is already an established and proven demand for games of that type, where the problem is the setting of the game (or lack of it) could be considered to what is holding the game back?"

So imagine for example a situation where there were generic superheroes games, but no licensed DC or Marvel content. Imagine there is generic fantasy, but no licensed Tolkien content.

That's an available license.

While Larry Niven's Ringworld is not, nor is Katherine Kurtz "Deryni" setting despite one or two obsessive fans of it.

"Babylon 5" looks on its surface like it might be a good IP, but it's not because the setting is too tightly constructed to make a really interesting open world. It has the problem that you need to actual set the story in a time period other than the one series is set in, and it turns out to be a "small world" very character driven story with the setting in the background providing gravitas. I think it could be done in the same way WEG created the Star Wars universe, but it's such a small fanbase compared to Star Wars that there is always a question, "Why not Star Wars?" Traveller in the B5 universe has always intrigued me though.

"Firefly" might be worth picking up if the reboot creates a massive new fandom. "Frieren" does the very high level D&D thing pretty well and it's looking like it might be a genuine cross-cultural hit, but I think the characters might be more interesting than the setting.

But the only thing I feel like is a good bet right now is "Tortall" and that's because it does "Knights and morality" in very much the same way that Arthurian legend does, without the disconnect of realistically medieval culture. So, you can have your girl knights without feeling like you are fighting against the setting and the source material. That is itself more valuable than the IP is itself, in the same way that HPL might not have had a huge fanbase, but it certainly fills a niche in horror RPGs.

 

[Tonguez]

I guess I need to look more closely at Mystara.

I really like Mystara - an was inspired by Karameikos to shift my focus from Tolkienesque faux-england to faux-Balkans/Eastern Europe.

Personally I didnt do much with Glantri as Im not a fan of Magocracies, but the influence is there - make sure to check out the Vaults of Pandius for all things Mystara

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

UC Gundam

UC Gundam was my safety school.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Personally I didnt do much with Glantri as Im not a fan of Magocracies

Wait, are you suggesting book smart people with unchecked power might not be the people to put in charge?

(Ack, this actually makes me want to do a very on the nose magocracy setting.)