Since battlefield earth came up in another thread, and we were asked to stop talking about it there, here's a thread to talk about it.
I'd say if the book, which i read and survived, had been written in the 30's-50's it might be considered a great classic scifi novel. I'm certain it was meant to be a tribute to the golden age, the Gernsback era. it sure read like a massive 30's pulp scifi novel.
The movie...bleah.
(Did the main actor, who played taylor, ever get another role? haver to bing that.)
But the book had a massive amount of storyline in it ad i suppose it wouldn't be too hard to make a fairly detailed RPG sourcebook for it. Obviously as to a system, a simple one would be best. Fate, savage worlds, hell, even FAST.
I know there's a 30's scifi style rpg setting for savage worlds called slipstream meant to do the 30's style serial scifi like flash gordon. Plus they have a flash gordon setting so those would work.
Since at least a couple people here like the novel i wondered what they'd think of a RPG setting for it. I don't think it'd be my thing, i like high tech more than retro. I will say the connection to scientology wouldn't bother me much, I don't care for scientology but honestly, I think that it's bullshit that scientology gets so much shit thrown at it but no one slams on Nation of Islam, which is far worse.