What Property That Has Never Had A TTRPG Adaptation Deserves one?

Believe me, I understand. And the fact that you're apparently now supposed to gaslight yourself and pretend you didn't enjoy the things you did because of the people involved makes it even worse...
I’ve never felt any pressure to do that. I follow in the wake of great discussions by folks like N.K. Jemisin and Kameron Hurley about the work of retaining the good while cutting loose the bad. (Including the reality they we never do this perfectly and must not expect or demand that of ourselves or others, and that it’s always work in progress.)
 

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Harry Potter is an easy one.
Not sure the system though... Free League? I'll let others puzzle that one out.
I'd rather see it done using the Sentinel Comics engine - far more open ended.
I wouldn't mind Year Zero using the d6 dice pools... but the step die version lacks the needed granularity, IMO...
I'd also not be unhappy to plonk down for a core for HP from Modiphius using 2d20. But given the things the author has said about RPGs.... I doubt it will happen.

Percy Jackson, too. Tho' the core conceits are present in Scion, Hercules & Xena, and in several other lesser known games.

Pern and the FSP setting from McCaffrey -- they're technically one in the same, BTW -- would be surefire sellers. SJG tried and noted that they were flatly told "No." (It was like #3 on the most desired setting books when they did the survey. I know it was on my list, too.)

The FT&T setting (The Pegasus novels and the Damia cycle) would also be good. (Also McCaffrey).

Sadly, Vorkosiverse Has been done... as a GURPS book... and didn't include much that wasn't in the Vorkosigan Companion... so it's not valuable as an other-game resource to anyone with the cheaper Vorkosigan Companion. Neither of them cover the last few volumes, either... unless SJG updated it, but e23 doesn't say they have.
 



Sapphire & Steel: A very gameable setting, especially for small groups, this would be great with a light, bespoke, system that really captures the weirdness of the series (seriously, this is a weird TV series). RIP, David McCallum.
I still have nightmares from the first series. "Upstairs and downstairs, upstairs and downstairs..."

Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three series comes to mind as a fun setting for an RPG adaptation.
With ranger magic the way it was intended!
 

Rowling apparently refuses to make an RPG, so even if she hadn't been saying what she has, that one's out.

Fullmetal Alchemist? Seems pretty game-y, with science-y magic with explicit rules.
 


Deus Ex would have such strong potential, no matter whether you're doing it during the time of Adam Jensen or J.C. Denton. An immersive sim with the right collection of rules (maybe rules light, or at-least something flexible?) combined with great rules on how to make quests and 'dungeons'* with multiple solutions, set up clues and things to come back to - would be a great little science fiction game.

It may need some sensitivity to comb through some conspiracy stuff** particularly for the latter era, but honestly I think I'd adore it.

* enemy bases, corporate lairs, etc. - don't know what to call it outside of fantasy TTRPG space.

** Deus Ex mainly uses conspiracies as backdrop and strongly focuses on the theme of 'corporations and capitalists as extreme dangers to society, particularly when they overtake the government' and on so on and so forth - not necessarily problematic. The problem is, of course, is that many conspiracies back then lead to more awful things down the rabbit hole, such as antisemitism, all sorts of racism, anti-vaxx etc.

And it has gotten much worse since then. The whole FEMA thing in Deus Ex, and, especially, the plague can read VERY POORLY if you don't take into account that the game was written in the later 90s, before 9/11 and before the internet enabled extreme conspiracy theories to rise to the top.

So I think those elements would need to be handled with care.

I think this is partly a big reason why the Adam Jensen games still feature the conspiracies around corporations and capitalists but focus primarily on augmentation; you are much less likely to run headfirst into actual awful beliefs people hold...
 



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