Games that need a new edition

Llew ap Hywel · August 16, 2017, 01:43:37 AM

Cool

KingCheops · August 16, 2017, 11:53:43 AM

Quote from: Krimson;983840I'll be keeping an eye open on the generic version of that system for sure.

Yup. Hopefully the price point is a lot cheaper than Star Wars due to the lack of an expensive license.

Anglachel · August 17, 2017, 06:48:45 AM

Quote from: KingCheops;984214Yup. Hopefully the price point is a lot cheaper than Star Wars due to the lack of an expensive license.

That's information easily available if you wanted to know. Corebooks for the SW lines are 59.95$ each. The Genesys corebook is 39.95$ (at least that is the price given on FFG's product page at the moment).

That being said, you can get the SW corebooks cheaper as well...for example via amazon.

KingCheops · August 17, 2017, 12:18:09 PM

Quote from: Anglachel;984492That's information easily available if you wanted to know. Corebooks for the SW lines are 59.95$ each. The Genesys corebook is 39.95$ (at least that is the price given on FFG's product page at the moment).

That being said, you can get the SW corebooks cheaper as well...for example via amazon.

Ah yeah but I'm thinking more along the lines of what sorts of rules are included. For instance if I were to run Shadowrun ever again I'd do so using FFG Star Wars. However, the rules for everything is scattered across nearly a dozen books. I already own those but for someone looking to do Cyberpunk with Genesys do they just need 2 $40 books?

RPGPundit · August 26, 2017, 12:06:14 AM

Well, I decided that the Appendix P rules in Dark Albion required a larger, more complete edition. Hence, the upcoming Lion & Dragon game.

remial · August 27, 2017, 06:10:43 AM

I'd like to see a Pathfinder 2nd edition.
In part to clean up a lot of crap that is in the system, and also because it would make so many of the Pathfinder fanboys' heads explode with rage that "all their books are now obsolete!!!!1one"

Shawn Driscoll · August 27, 2017, 11:22:02 AM

Just make all RPGs subscription. With free errata updates every mid-year. And paid renewals every year, to stay current with the rules.

Larsdangly · August 27, 2017, 02:25:49 PM

We live in a world replete with editions and clones of a vast array of old games, which is cool, but The Fantasy Trip got mostly left by the wayside for IP reasons. You could argue that the 4 editions of GURPS are the legacy of TFT, but GURPS is a much bigger, fussier game so I tend to think of it as its own thing. I'd love to see (or even better, make!) a second edition of TFT that was done as a polished boxed set with the rules pretty similar to the original, just organized properly and perhaps edited and tweaked for content to tidy up a few things all the old grognards know could have been improved. It would be amazing.

Dumarest · August 28, 2017, 11:34:13 AM

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;987115Just make all RPGs subscription. With free errata updates every mid-year. And paid renewals every year, to stay current with the rules.

Or better yet, do them right the first time and move on to a new project.

Dumarest · August 28, 2017, 11:34:45 AM

Quote from: Larsdangly;987132We live in a world replete with editions and clones of a vast array of old games, which is cool, but The Fantasy Trip got mostly left by the wayside for IP reasons. You could argue that the 4 editions of GURPS are the legacy of TFT, but GURPS is a much bigger, fussier game so I tend to think of it as its own thing. I'd love to see (or even better, make!) a second edition of TFT that was done as a polished boxed set with the rules pretty similar to the original, just organized properly and perhaps edited and tweaked for content to tidy up a few things all the old grognards know could have been improved. It would be amazing.

Yes, it would be.

Simlasa · August 28, 2017, 12:54:43 PM

Quote from: Larsdangly;987132I'd love to see (or even better, make!) a second edition of TFT that was done as a polished boxed set with the rules pretty similar to the original, just organized properly and perhaps edited and tweaked for content to tidy up a few things all the old grognards know could have been improved. It would be amazing.

Why can't you?
I mean, you can't call it 'The Fantasy Trip', but other than changing names of things it seems like it ought to work.
Not that it would be profitable enough to justify a boxed set, or anything more than a labor of love.

Dumarest · August 28, 2017, 01:08:31 PM

Quote from: Simlasa;987345Not that it would be profitable enough to justify a boxed set, or anything more than a labor of love.

That applies to almost every RPG.

DavetheLost · August 28, 2017, 01:54:38 PM

A TFT retroclone would be nice to see.

An RPG that actually made money for a small, independant creator would also be nice to see.

Larsdangly · August 28, 2017, 02:03:27 PM

Ive got a couple different versions of TFT kicking around my hard drive, with more and less modification for house rules. The main thing that keeps me from polishing one of them up and sending it out the door is that I can't be confident Ive really scrubbed every sentence of original material out of any of them. I don't think I can publish a retroclone that plagarizes the original. I suppose with enough work I could get it street legal, but it irks me to spend weeks picking through something that is perfectly good as it is, re-writing sentences for no good reason.

Schwartzwald · August 28, 2017, 10:23:11 PM

I'd like to see ringworld redone. I think BRP is a great system and the KS setting was good even if I hate Niven personally.

It could use a vehicle/device construction system.