TSR What TSR-era RPG should get an official 5e reboot?

[lowkey13]

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[Nutation]

The DragonQuest RPG. Pure brilliance.
It'll never happen. But a boy can dream.

DragonQuest, though fondly remembered, was an SPI game. TSR acquired SPI, so it's not quite the same thing. Would Wizards publish multiple fantasy RPGs?

Skills. Essentially fixed hit points. Wonky colleges of magic. I would like to see it again.

 

[akr71]

Since I could only vote for one, I chose Gamma World, but I would gladly buy Star Frontiers and Top Secret too.

 

[Guest 6801718]

I went with Gamma World, for all that mutant and post-apocalyptic craziness. I was tempted to go with Marvel at first. Though there are some really great superhero games out there, like Mutants & Masterminds and Worlds in Peril, that really capture comic superheroes awesomely. You can play whatever you want and it's easy to integrate stuff like Marvel and DC into them if you want. So since someone updated some of the superhero games already, Gamma World get's my vote.

 

[AmerginLiath]

I voted Boot Hill, but for the Old West setting rather than “the guns.” D&D has always had a frontier outlook that (especially in the original High Gygaxian) borrows as much from the American Wild West as it does from the European Middle Ages. It would interesting to see the game take a side trip into seeing how to put those ideas back into their proper setting (and also be a neat way of creating a grittier take on 5e while not changing some of the core adventuring and frontier aspects of the game).

 

[Yaarel]

Marvel Super Heroes is a fun intuitive game.

It is probably difficult to translate into D&D 5e mechanics.

I would mainly make a super the Warrior Mage class: a 5e Wizard with a ‘Fighter tradition’. (It feels like a Basic D&D Elf class, a 3e Wizard/Fighter gestalt, and a 4e Swordmage class.) Then focus on thematic ‘domains’ for the spell lists.

Allow other classes too, of course: Batman as Rogue, and so on. But Warrior Mage covers most of the super archetypes, depending on cantrip and spell selection. They are mages that can brawl.

 

[Thakazum]

Star Frontiers was more like the Marvel game it relied on the d10 system and the stats worked the same and I still have the original books of that game

Star Frontiers used a d100 system. Abilities and skills were on a scale of 1 to 100. It didn't have classes but did have Primary Skill Areas: Military, Technological, Biosocial.

 

[Azzy]

Star Frontiers used a d100 system. Abilities and skills were on a scale of 1 to 100. It didn't have classes but did have Primary Skill Areas: Military, Technological, Biosocial.

In Zebulon's Guide, the tried to turn it into a MSH-like chart system.

 

[Thakazum]

In Zebulon's Guide, the tried to turn it into a MSH-like chart system.

True. I tend to ignore Zeb's. It was after my time when I was into SF as a kid and never got into it more recently when I revisited the game.

 

[Bacon Bits]

Meh. I'd rather play those settings in Savage Worlds.