Just like the thread title says.

There's a great abundance of fantasy OSR/retroclone games, but damned if the pickings for non-fantasy aren't still pretty slim.

For my part I put out Hulks and Horrors of course for SF, and SWN offers a different take, and on the docket for the future I'd like to try tackling cyberpunk at some point, and I've seen one or two kinda weak attempts at supers or pulp, but overall it seems like there's still kind of a small number out there.

Any genres you're particularly interested in seeing get old-school-D&D-ified?

Modern-day spy thrillers.

I'd love to see a TSR-era-D&D-powered game in which players are a mercenary black ops outfit taking missions in a world of military, political and corporate intrigue set up sandbox-style.

No magic, but maybe we could have a Gadgeteer class and a big ol' gadget list, from prosaic surveillance equipment and gun sights, to crazy James Bond stuff like laser pens and explosive cufflinks.

To top it off, endgame procedures for PCs to become movers and shakers and spin their own webs of intrigue. Unless of course they'd rather retire to a tropical paradise or remote island.

I dunno if its OSR and maybe this doesn't answer your question, but I'd like to see some throwback Spy game, even in its setting. Some 1980s era spy/action stuff. That could be cool.

Quote from: The Butcher;643413Modern-day spy thrillers.

I'd love to see a TSR-era-D&D-powered game in which players are a mercenary black ops outfit taking missions in a world of military, political and corporate intrigue set up sandbox-style.

No magic, but maybe we could have a Gadgeteer class and a big ol' gadget list, from prosaic surveillance equipment and gun sights, to crazy James Bond stuff like laser pens and explosive cufflinks.

To top it off, endgame procedures for PCs to become movers and shakers and spin their own webs of intrigue. Unless of course they'd rather retire to a tropical paradise or remote island.

This, totally this. Except maybe minus the gagets, and gadgeteers. Ive always been more partial to John le Carré than James Bond.

Quote from: Ronin;643421This, totally this. Except maybe minus the gagets, and gadgeteers. Ive always been more partial to John le Carré than James Bond.

I'd say that, if we're talking typical DnDish mechanics, it'd be a cross between Fleming's and le Carre's depictions of modern espionage - on one hand, indeed the film gadget's best be gone, or related to the status of "magic items", so to speak, but on the other - since given the typical DnD mechanic Mechanical Power = Position, you'd need to take care of the notions of "falling from grace", loosing your social standing to Do The Right Thing, and the moral and sanity - depriving decisions, that are common in le Carre's characters.

What about a Western setting? I mean, DnD's lbasically taking a Wild West ideas of equality and Skill=Social Standing to the fantasy setting. I'd certainly see a potential for "mechanics - light" Western game. Deadlands, while an interesting setting, have a far too odd mechanic for me, and Aces and Eights, while my current favourite on the Western Front, aren't rules - light for sure.

And as said - even the name levels'd fit. Depending on the class, you'd get a goldmine, town, sheriff's office or a parish...etc.etc.

Within the fantasy genre, I'd love to see two OSR things: one that genuinely feels like the myths and and legends of antiquity and the middle ages, and one that does High Fantasy well.

Outside medieval fantasy... not sure. Something that puts an adventuring spin on 20th century warfare, perhaps in the register of Kelly's Heroes, might be fun.

After watching The Walking Dead, I have been interested in Survival Horror. It would seem to have both a strong sandbox and lethality feel to it.

I've said it many times: '50s atomic age horror.

Personally, I'm also really kind of itching to tackle some kind of urban fantasy. Somewhere between Dresden Files and the "D&D meets Modern Day" stuff they teased at but never really properly handled in D20 Modern.

Commando-esque (as in the Shwartzenegger movie) action movies.

Postnuke!  Some T2k-like or Aftermath! or Morrow Project.

Quote from: talysman;643441I've said it many times: '50s atomic age horror.

Yes this as well. Bring on the Jonny Quest style adventure!!!!

Quote from: J Arcane;643479Personally, I'm also really kind of itching to tackle some kind of urban fantasy. Somewhere between Dresden Files and the "D&D meets Modern Day" stuff they teased at but never really properly handled in D20 Modern.

Yeah the Urban Arcana setting was lacking at best.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;643482Postnuke!  Some T2k-like or Aftermath! or Morrow Project.

Serious Post-Apoc would be welcome as well. Seriously this thread is made of win. So many ideas, so little time......

Quote from: Ronin;643629Yeah the Urban Arcana setting was lacking at best.

It was a seriously cool idea, it just seemed very perfunctory and the boring d20 Modern classes didn't really sell it.

I want to do something like the 2e game my friends and I tried as a lad, where D&D stuff straight up manifested and we were all playing actual D&D classes.

So like, wizards and stuff are still there, but the wizard can carry a .44.