What Lost, Abandoned or Short Lived TTRPG would you like to see get a re-issue and new support?

[Birmy]

Here's one: Shatterzone, West End Games's answer to losing the Star Wars license. Really intense, gritty, of-its-time sci-fi setting that used the MasterBook system. Precis Intermedia has the rights and have reprinted most of the old supplements. Ripe for an update.

 

[Professor Murder]

Yes? The kickstarter is over, the game is available to buy

I'd love to know where.

 

[The Soloist]

I wish they’d release the PDFs for sale.

It would be cool, but to do that they would have to remember they own it... Not sure there is anyone left at WoTC who knows that.

 

[Umbran]

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[Mannahnin]

How about Mekton?

Or Teenagers From Outer Space?

Lace and Steel.

I barely remember the rules but recall they were interesting. However any game who's core ancestries includes Satyr needs to be more popular in my opinion.
That it was one of 3, alongside human and "I forget", made it all the better. A tight core where each therefore had room to have depth and lore.

Human, Satyr, Centaur and Harpy, IIRC. A Pauli Kidd design with Donna Barr art, to my recollection. Pretty sure the rules included card-based systems for dueling, for magic, and for social repartee.

 

[darjr]

It would be cool, but to do that they would have to remember they own it... Not sure there is anyone left at WoTC who knows that.

Well yea, someone would have too. Who can we get to do that?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

How about Mekton?

When I was in Austin in the early 1990s, our group had a rule where everyone was responsible for running a campaign (we had a rotation system) and everyone had to make a PC for each campaign. One guy was BIG into anime, and wanted to run some kind of campaign where we were all mech pilots.

He had good ideas…but never quite found a system that he liked enough to run long term. He’d run something for 2-3 sessions, then scrap it and start anew in a different system.

Mekton was one of the systems he tried. TBH, I don’t remember much of it or which particular mech-jockey I ran in it (30+ years ago) but it definitely didn’t get in my way while designing a PC.

 

[Mannahnin]

When I was in Austin in the early 1990s, our group had a rule where everyone was responsible for running a campaign (we had a rotation system) and everyone had to make a PC for each campaign. One guy was BIG into anime, and wanted to run some kind of campaign where we were all mech pilots.

He had good ideas…but never quite found a system that he liked enough to run long term. He’d run something for 2-3 sessions, then scrap it and start anew in a different system.

Mekton was one of the systems he tried. TBH, I don’t remember much of it or which particular mech-jockey I ran in it (30+ years ago) but it definitely didn’t get in my way while designing a PC.

I remembered the game having some balance issues (Reflex being the god-stat even above Dex in D&D), and dug up some interesting post-mortem posts from Reddit on the game.

I did love the setting and feel, though (I think I still have my copies of the game and at least one expansion), so it seems like a good candidate for a fix/redesign. Although apparently Mike Pondsmith kickstarted a new edition in 2013-2018 but it never panned out and he wound up refunding backers.

 

[chuckdee]

Systems
Underground
Whispering Vault
Nephilim
Continuum
Nexus
and being cynical, I also say Cortex Prime

Settings Books/Supplements
Powder Mage
Supernatural
Firefly
Stormbringer
Judge Dredd
Iron Heroes

 

[el-remmen]

Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (using the SAGA card system) even if it needs to be re-printed without any Marvel branding.