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{Favorite} Non-Rpg setting you'd like to see as an RPG?

Started by Silverlion, October 24, 2007, 04:46:48 PM

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Dr Rotwang!

#15
October 25, 2007, 10:57:17 PM
Alan Cole and Chris Bunch's "Antero" series of novels could easily have their setting (and, most importantly, their mood and flavor) extracted and injected into any given FRPG.

How about a game set in the world of the astonishingly bad Italian SF films of the late 70s?
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#16
October 25, 2007, 10:59:08 PM
Ideal for MetaScapeII !!  I think I could do that.

I want to see a decent, carefully-crafted juvenile delinquent/exploitation game with real rules. I like hot cars and cutting school and raunchy music and girls that let you get to second base.
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#17
October 26, 2007, 05:31:02 AM
Steven Brust's Jhereg books.  That would rock so hard.
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#19
October 26, 2007, 06:52:09 AM
I'm pretty thoroughly obsessed with the 100 Bullets comic.  Of course, to write that setting up, you'd first have to figure out what the hell is going on.

I read Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda a couple of months ago and felt it had the makings of a rip-roaring adventure game.
 

Joey2k

#20
October 26, 2007, 08:08:36 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Alan Cole and Chris Bunch's "Antero" series of novels could easily have their setting (and, most importantly, their mood and flavor) extracted and injected into any given FRPG.

Hey! I was gonna say The Far Kingdoms too!  Lots of cool little kingdoms and civilizations both described and hinted at, with plenty of unmapped territory for expanding into as well.

Plus the elite lesbian brigade :D
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flyingmice

#21
October 26, 2007, 08:11:49 AM
Quote from: jeff379232300AD works well on that setting if you don't mind a little stretch.

Thanks, Jeff, but I wrote StarCluster as a tribute of sorts to Cherryh, Niven, and Brin. It's less of a stretch. :D

QuoteFor me, I'd like to see Pournelle's CoDominion done, with Niven's part in The Mote thrown in for good measure.

Agreed! Someone got the rights a couple years ago, but they dissappeared. The rights are out there! :D

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JohnnyWannabe

#22
October 26, 2007, 08:15:59 AM
Quote from: DrewStephen King's 'The Dark Tower' setting.

Yep. But I wouldn't trust a single existing big name publisher with it. Marco Chacon could do it justice.
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#23
October 26, 2007, 08:38:09 AM
Quote from: JohnnyWannabeYep. But I wouldn't trust a single existing big name publisher with it. Marco Chacon could do it justice.

OOOOH YEAH! Marco! Your next setting! :D

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ColonelHardisson

#24
October 26, 2007, 08:49:29 AM
Quote from: PseudoephedrineGene Wolfe's Urth.

There was a GURPS sourcebook for it.

My choice would be David Weber's "Honorverse." Yeah, I know there is a game supposedly in the works, but what little I've read about it hasn't been encouraging.

Space:Above and Beyond would make for a nice RPG setting.

Larry Niven's "Known Space" would be prime RPG real estate. It's difficult to still count the Ringworld RPG since it was published so long ago and so relatively few have even seen it.
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Joey2k

#25
October 26, 2007, 08:51:03 AM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonMy choice would be David Weber's "Honorverse." Yeah, I know there is a game supposedly in the works, but what little I've read about it hasn't been encouraging.

I thought that was just a wargame. Is there an rpg coming too?
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ColonelHardisson

#26
October 26, 2007, 08:53:08 AM
Quote from: TechnomancerI thought that was just a wargame. Is there an rpg coming too?

Supposedly. I read about it a while back. Can't recall who was slated to do it.
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Ronin

#27
October 26, 2007, 09:11:59 AM
Full Metal Alchemist
or
The Executioner series (Mack Bolan, Able Team, Phoenix Force, Stony Man)
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#28
October 26, 2007, 09:17:42 AM
Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space universe.
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Balbinus

#29
October 26, 2007, 09:54:44 AM
The Dragon Waiting by John M Ford, or in a similar vein the Damiano trilogy by RA MacAvoy.

Edit:  And maybe Viriconium, just to annoy M John Harrison.  It's my favourite fantasy work and the game would be a travesty, but it would be funny...
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