What Property Do You Still Want to See Get a TTRPG Adaptation

[J.Quondam]

I think a rpg based on The Prisoner would be nice for a short campaign. I know GURPS did a supplement for the series, but not sure if it's been attempted since.

 

[aramis erak]

THE RULES: No game that has a CURRENTLY PUBLISHED licensed TTRPG -- so no Lord of the Rings, no Marvel, etc.

So, simple question: what media property (books, video games, series, films, comics, whatever) that does not have a TTRPG adaptation do you wish had one. Also, who should make it? What sort of system should it have? What kind of product line?

For my part, I would really like to see a new Star Wars RPG (I think it qualifies; the Genisys version is dead AFAIK).

Still in print, and they just started shipping dice again. So definitely NOT dead. Moribund? Yes. But there's new content yet to monetize. (Edge probably are not the right studio for it... and their multilation of Rokugan in their 5E-sup... )


Cole and Bunch's Sten series. Unlikely, as one or both authors are dead.

Original Battlestar Galactica; the BSG RPG was NBSG. And was Cortex Classic.

McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern series and its spinoffs; also her Shell series (Ship Who Sang, etc) and FSP series (To Ride Pegasus and The Rowan and the rest of those lines)

Niven's Known Space series... yes, I know there was a Chaosium book for Ringworld... but it's so out of date even on just the Ringworld setting that it's not really that viable. Ringworld Throne and Ringworld's Children both post-date it and have lots more on the Pak.

the 1979 Buck Rogers series... the TSR XXVc game was for the radio version from the 40's... an almost totally, but not quite exactly, unlike setting from the TV show. And neither of them does the comics of the 20's... Let alone the Armageddon: 2419 novel which started it all.

Might be nice to have the Phule's Company series as a sourcebook.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Still in print, and they just started shipping dice again. So definitely NOT dead. Moribund? Yes. But there's new content yet to monetize. (Edge probably are not the right studio for it... and their multilation of Rokugan in their 5E-sup... )


Cole and Bunch's Sten series. Unlikely, as one or both authors are dead.

Original Battlestar Galactica; the BSG RPG was NBSG. And was Cortex Classic.

McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern series and its spinoffs; also her Shell series (Ship Who Sang, etc) and FSP series (To Ride Pegasus and The Rowan and the rest of those lines)

Niven's Known Space series... yes, I know there was a Chaosium book for Ringworld... but it's so out of date even on just the Ringworld setting that it's not really that viable. Ringworld Throne and Ringworld's Children both post-date it and have lots more on the Pak.

the 1979 Buck Rogers series... the TSR XXVc game was for the radio version from the 40's... an almost totally, but not quite exactly, unlike setting from the TV show. And neither of them does the comics of the 20's... Let alone the Armageddon: 2419 novel which started it all.

Might be nice to have the Phule's Company series as a sourcebook.

I loved the heck out of Phule's Company!

 

[aramis erak]

Interestingly, you can still get the Buffy game books legally.

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The license never expired from Eden.

False.
Fox did not extend their license; Fox allows existing product to be sold until a new licensee, provided they get their royalties, and considers PDFs to remain in stock until further notice...
I asked back when Eden was still selling after announced end of license.

It's a clause of the original license, interpreted for maximum profit for Fox.

 

[Micah Sweet]

true

False.
Fox did not extend their license; Fox allows existing product to be sold until a new licensee, provided they get their royalties, and considers PDFs to remain in stock until further notice...
I asked back when Eden was still selling after announced end of license.

It's a clause of the original license, interpreted for maximum profit for Fox.

Weird that they still do that even after being bought by Disney.

 

[Reynard]

Weird that they still do that even after being bought by Disney.

Wait, Buffy is a Disney Princess?

 

[aramis erak]

Wait, Buffy is a Disney Princess?

Yup.

Disney hasn't absorbed Fox the way it did Marvel - too many useful legal safeties... especially distancing from Fox News and the often crude and crass shows of Fox TV... It's a mostly or wholly owned subsidiary...

And I don't think we'll see Buffy crew Cast Members at the Disney parks... Only Buffy, Xander, and maybe Kendra and Faith have anything distinctive enough in terms of dress to be recognizable, and the characters are so chatty a cast member might have issues. but once the legal issues of Deep-fakes are wrangled, we might see CG 3d interactives...

 

[MichaelSomething]

I'd always wondered what a TTRPG inspired by David Bowie would be like...

 

[payn]

I'd always wondered what a TTRPG inspired by David Bowie would be like...

Omikron: The Nomad Soul?

 

[jian]

The World of the Five Gods (Curse of Chalion, Penric and Desdemona, etc) by Lois McMaster Bujold. A late medieval (15th century or so, mostly) alternate Europe (the countries are all renamed - Chalion is Castile, Darthaca is France, etc) where the five gods are worshipped, very real, and yet unable to touch the world except via us mortals. The Gods have no hands but ours, and those who open themselves to the Gods become saints; those who take on a demon become sorcerers. It’s a very consistent and well-written world, I personally recommend using Chronica Feudalis.

The Anvil of the World, by Kage Baker, based on the book of the same name - the others are The House of the Stag and The Bird of the River. The world is roughly classical Europe in flavour and setting (around 0 CE, though there are anachronisms like fireworks) and there are three peoples in it - the Children of the Sun, who love machines and feuds (and are most like humans), the Earthborn, who love nature and medicine (and are somewhat like elves) and the Air-born who are immaterial spirits (and who are called Demons by everyone else). I’d probably use something like Exalted for Mortals.