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<blockquote data-quote="KainGuru" data-source="post: 8290616" data-attributes="member: 31667"><p>With respect to Gamma World et al there are interesting things happening on Kickstarter through the likes of Troll Lords. They've redone Jim Wards original Metamorphous Alpha as 'Starship Warden': rules agnostic BUT prepped for use in TL's own Star Siege (being printed for delivery as I type). A lot of these old properties are being rebooted by their original authors using other systems (licenced or brand new). eg: Though not sci-fi, but a TSR non-fantasy original, Rasmussen re-did his original 'Top Secret' thru kickstarter - now called 'Top Secret - New World Order'. </p><p></p><p>But the market is niche and best served as kickstarter fodder. WoTC won't get The Expanse, that's already been RPG'ed, again thru kickstarter with heavy input from the series' authors. Modiphius has Star Trek and Fantasy Flight has a stranglehold on everything tabletop for Star Wars. I believe Modiphius has already scored the Dune IP (if someone knows I'd be glad of some clarification) </p><p></p><p>WoTC basically gave up the rights to 'Star Frontiers' ages ago: there's a website that's been running for 20 years now with all the original Star Frontiers stuff free to download <em>with the permission of WoTC </em>(the owner of the site specifically sought out WoTC's permission and it was granted provided the IP wasn't being distributed for profit - ie it has to remain free). </p><p></p><p>WoTC may have cornered the Fantasy RPG market but it appears for non-fantasy stuff most people go elsewhere. IMHO I think it's likely a long lasting reflex to the glut of D20 (3.x) IP conversions that flooded the market on the early 2000's . . . and didn't do very well - mainly (again IMHO) because the system that was a good fit for a certain type of genre fantasy didn't always translate well to other, IP specific, genres (I'm remembering the likes of Judge Dredd D20 and Call of Cthulhu D20 here).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KainGuru, post: 8290616, member: 31667"] With respect to Gamma World et al there are interesting things happening on Kickstarter through the likes of Troll Lords. They've redone Jim Wards original Metamorphous Alpha as 'Starship Warden': rules agnostic BUT prepped for use in TL's own Star Siege (being printed for delivery as I type). A lot of these old properties are being rebooted by their original authors using other systems (licenced or brand new). eg: Though not sci-fi, but a TSR non-fantasy original, Rasmussen re-did his original 'Top Secret' thru kickstarter - now called 'Top Secret - New World Order'. But the market is niche and best served as kickstarter fodder. WoTC won't get The Expanse, that's already been RPG'ed, again thru kickstarter with heavy input from the series' authors. Modiphius has Star Trek and Fantasy Flight has a stranglehold on everything tabletop for Star Wars. I believe Modiphius has already scored the Dune IP (if someone knows I'd be glad of some clarification) WoTC basically gave up the rights to 'Star Frontiers' ages ago: there's a website that's been running for 20 years now with all the original Star Frontiers stuff free to download [I]with the permission of WoTC [/I](the owner of the site specifically sought out WoTC's permission and it was granted provided the IP wasn't being distributed for profit - ie it has to remain free). WoTC may have cornered the Fantasy RPG market but it appears for non-fantasy stuff most people go elsewhere. IMHO I think it's likely a long lasting reflex to the glut of D20 (3.x) IP conversions that flooded the market on the early 2000's . . . and didn't do very well - mainly (again IMHO) because the system that was a good fit for a certain type of genre fantasy didn't always translate well to other, IP specific, genres (I'm remembering the likes of Judge Dredd D20 and Call of Cthulhu D20 here). [/QUOTE]
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