Quote from: Willie the Duck;989941Skeletor and his minions were already unleashed into the modern world in the live-action movie, and we don't talk about it.

The movie was pretty good, until they came to earth.

First one that came to mind is the 87 BBC hard SF series Star Cops. I'd do it with either Star Frontiers with most of the odd SF stripped out. Or more likely use Albedo with humans and set around Earth instead.

Airwolf from 84. We actually added into Star Frontiers using the vehicle rules from Dragon.

Quote from: estar;989460Robin of Sherwood

Graham Staplehurst beat you to it. The Sherwood Forest setting in Robin Hood the RPG (ICE Rolemaster/Fantasy Hero supplement) is heavily inspired by Robin of Sherwood. The author went on to write a couple of Robin of Sherwood gamebooks as well.

Quote from: Willie the Duck;989941Skeletor and his minions were already unleashed into the modern world in the live-action movie, and we don't talk about it.

Off topic, but did you know why they did that?  And why it was called Masters of The Universe?  They didn't actually have the rights to the characters or settings.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;991188Off topic, but did you know why they did that?  And why it was called Masters of The Universe?  They didn't actually have the rights to the characters or settings.

   The movie was done largely on Earth for budgetary reasons--indeed, the budget was so tight and mishandled that a) Mattel had to kick in a bunch of extra money at the last minute, and b) they had to do the final battle last-minute on a shoestring or else they were going to shut down production without doing it.

   The name was Masters of the Universe because it was licensed from Mattel and based purely on the toyline. The rights to various MotU characters and elements have been a tangle over the years. But He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was the title of the Filmation cartoon, and I think preproduction had started on the movie by the time the cartoon launched.

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;989465I would really love to play Miami Vice (blame GTA Vice City), but I think The A Team might be more feasible.

Precis Intermedia has it: Precis Intermedia :: Vice Squad Bundle.
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Quote from: Dumarest;989560G.I. Joe or Transformers could be fun, too.

There's a couple of GI Joe-type ("military fantasy") games out there. The thing is, I don't recall anyone ever dying in the TV-show.

In fact, in a lot of 80's TV-shows no one ever died.

Quote from: 3rik;991202Precis Intermedia has it: Precis Intermedia :: Vice Squad Bundle.
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There's a couple of GI Joe-type ("military fantasy") games out there. The thing is, I don't recall anyone ever dying in the TV-show.

In fact, in a lot of 80's TV-shows no one ever died.

Most TV shows, no one ever dies unless an actor dies or leaves the show.

Quote from: Dumarest;991210Most TV shows, no one ever dies unless an actor dies or leaves the show.

Which is contrary to assumptions about the consequences of combat in most RPGs. Now, I don't mean there shouldn't be any risk of severe injury or death, but in order to play a proper Masters of the Universe game, Skeletor really shouldn't ever die, no matter what happens, and it's not because he is immortal.

Quote from: Robyo;989495Wizards and Warriors

Beaten to the punch.

http://www.wizardsandwarriors.org/

I didn't watch much TV in the 80's, ...well, except for movies on cable, ...HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, and MTV. Public TV was like a cesspool, everyone was flocking away in droves ponying up $10 a month for cable, just so no one would have to watch commercials anymore, ...ever. The only fantasy show I even remember being a stupid, stupid show, Wizards & Warriors where the TV people just got busy making fun of geeks. It was pathetic, lame, and didn't survive after the pilot episode. CBS actually did let the it run through its inaugural eight episodes, but I watched less than ten minutes of the pilot and switched channels for anything better.

You want to talk about good gameworthy fantasy and sci-fi from TV, you need to get into the nineties, because by then, the TV folk finally figured out that quality Sci-fi and Fantasy was bankable. Then we started seeing (and I started watching) some of these really good shows like Hercules, Xena, Buffy, Highlander, Beastmaster, the Adventures of Sinbad, Conan, Roar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World (A hidden gem this one), X-files, Babylon 5, Stargate, Space: Above & Beyond, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Lexx, Quantum Leap, Seaquest: DSV, Earth 2, Aoen Flux. just to name a few.

Quote from: 3rik;991216Which is contrary to assumptions about the consequences of combat in most RPGs. Now, I don't mean there shouldn't be any risk of severe injury or death, but in order to play a proper Masters of the Universe game, Skeletor really shouldn't ever die, no matter what happens, and it's not because he is immortal.

Just adapt DC Heroes and give him lots of Hero Points for last ditch defenses and such. Also, get players who understand the setting and aren't just running around killing. No problem.

Generally, I would not be comfortable running anything in Middle-Earth, but if someone said that they would like to play a 4th age Hobbit/Shire campaign, Darling Buds of May would be perfek for a lark.

How about robotech with a good system?  Honestly HERO or gurps wow be better.  Rtg's Melton zeta would be better.

Quote from: Barghest;991114I think it says more about the apathetic carelessness of a random selection of gamers...

No science applied, but so far the suggestions seem to favor those decades before and after (or neither began or ended in it). There were some programs that established long term story arcs (or like MASH, establishing and end point at the end of the war), but not many.

Quote from: Omega;991127That was a pretty good animated show. One of the French/Japanese collabs?. You could almost do it with something like Call of Cthulhu.

Yep. It's conquistadors plus techno-magic in service of a coming-of-age adventure. A good sourcebook for the Americas is all you'd really need. Borrow selectively from the AD&D 2e historical sourcebook A Mighty Fortress, which is about more or less the right era.

However! It turns out that a (French) rpg based on this series was actually made. Or at least an excellent mock-up of the cover of one: I'm having a hard time finding out anything about it. EDIT ha ha I am a silly-billy. The whole thing was an April Fools joke, fml.