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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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flyingmice

#30
October 26, 2007, 10:19:12 AM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonThere 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.

Hi Colonel!

The only reason I didn't mention it was the Ringworld RPG. I have it and the Companion, and it's excellent!

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GrimJesta

#31
October 26, 2007, 02:30:06 PM
I hate to admit it, but I'd love to see Elder Scrolls: Oblivion/Morrowind, a.k.a. Tamriel. I mean hell, if Warcraft and Everquest can get RPGs, why can't Elder Scrolls, a more detailed and deep setting?

I know. I know. I'm lame.

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#32
October 26, 2007, 02:38:58 PM
I second Avatar and Elder Scrolls.

Also, the Malazan Book of the Fallen series started out (like most fantasy series) in a RPG campaign. Don't quote me but, it started out as a GURPS game. And supposedly Steven Erikson was looking to sell the RPG rights for his setting, but that's purely rumor and speculation, from what little I've gathered.

I think the massive difference in powerful levels would be difficult to represent in game terms for MBotF. With the ascendants, Master of the Deck, et al.

But how fun would it be to play a Bridgeburner? I submit that it would be pretty sweet.
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ColonelHardisson

#33
October 26, 2007, 06:29:56 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceHi Colonel!

The only reason I didn't mention it was the Ringworld RPG. I have it and the Companion, and it's excellent!

-clash

I just wish someone would get the permission to reprint all that stuff. What I've seen and heard of it looks like it'd be good source material for any given scifi RPG.
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#34
October 26, 2007, 07:45:32 PM
Quote from: GrimJestaI'd love to see Elder Scrolls: Oblivion/Morrowind

Yep, I could see that.
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#35
October 26, 2007, 08:17:43 PM
Quote from: Nick BowerSteven Brust's Jhereg books.  That would rock so hard.

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#36
October 26, 2007, 09:52:12 PM
I wanted to see a published adaptation of the Voltron series.

Koltar

#37
October 26, 2007, 10:35:35 PM
Anne McCaffrey's PERN - but I'm not sure it would work or what kind of campaign you could run there.

 Just something about it is appealing.


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#38
October 26, 2007, 11:00:37 PM
Quote from: KoltarAnne McCaffrey's PERN - but I'm not sure it would work or what kind of campaign you could run there.

 Just something about it is appealing.


- Ed C.

I think it would be interesting as a side trek, or as something like those pocket universes/other planets in Queen of the Demonweb Pits. I don't know if I'd want to run a full-blown campaign in it, but I'm sure there are a lot of McCaffrey fans who would.

Like others, I think Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" setting would be interesting. Along the same lines, I think Vernor Vinge's setting for "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky" would be great fodder for a scifi RPG.
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beeber

#39
October 27, 2007, 06:19:46 AM
the dirty pair, either the original or the adam warren stuff.  as long as there's high-tech utter carnage!
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#40
October 27, 2007, 06:48:41 AM
How 'bout a Belgariad RPG where you have character advancement rules but no character advancement?

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#41
October 27, 2007, 09:46:52 AM
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#42
October 27, 2007, 05:03:27 PM
i would totally do a silent mobius game!  you could probably run it with palladium/rifts pretty easily.

mmm. . . temple maidens. . . .:keke:

TheQuestionMan

#43
October 28, 2007, 03:12:47 AM
Silent Mobius Zeta for Hero System by Subrook's Stuff http://surbrook.devermore.net/worldbooks/smz/silentmobius.html


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#44
October 28, 2007, 05:38:45 AM
I'd want a "Gotham" rpg, based upon the Batman comic book miniseries written and drawn by Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). You could have an entire rpg revolving around Gotham City. It would be grim and gritty, and the rules for WFRP 2e would work just fine for it, though it should have a completely new list of careers and equipment. :D

Characters in this setting might be somewhat more powerful than Warhammer, but that's okay. If DC Comics published a game like this, I'd buy it, and I don't normally go for superhero games.
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