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Author Topic: {Favorite} Non-Rpg setting you'd like to see as an RPG?  (Read 3065 times)

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« Reply #45 on: October 28, 2007, 02:43:01 PM »
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Silent Mobius Zeta for Hero System by Subrook's Stuff http://surbrook.devermore.net/worldbooks/smz/silentmobius.html


Cheers


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sweet!  thanks, QM!  i don't know the HERO system but i'm sure i can figure something out from all of that.  nice resource!

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« Reply #46 on: November 24, 2007, 06:39:26 PM »
Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series. I know about the board game and I wonder if it has gameable info in it. I do see that SJGames was planning on doing a GURPS book.

Anyway there is enough room to avoid the main characters or shove them into the background and adventure through the multiverse. With the Bazaar being home base, of coarse.

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« Reply #47 on: November 24, 2007, 08:05:41 PM »
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Full Metal Alchemist

Seconded.

I'd add Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, and Ghost in the Shell to that list. Also the Akira manga (I'm still kinda nonplussed by the movie). Oh, and Hellboy in some system that isn't GURPS. I hear they're doing the Girl Genius webcomic setting in GURPS too. I think there's a Trigun D20 somewhere out there.

Also, Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto (can somebody please tell me what any of that means so I don't have to type it out any more?), Black Lagoon, and Code Geass strike me as pretty gameable.

Wanting to run a game based on FLCL is like wanting to fly. It sucks because you know you'd only hurt yourself trying.

Snow Crash is something I'd game in. Likewise Dune.

The DrMcninja webcomic is also something I'd play in.

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« Reply #48 on: November 25, 2007, 05:44:06 PM »
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Full Metal Alchemist
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The Executioner series (Mack Bolan, Able Team, Phoenix Force, Stony Man)


I have run games based on these books - many years ago using the Delta Force rules and then another campaign more recently using Spycraft/Stargate rules. Worked pretty well. Just used the scenarios straight out of the novels.

Virinconium by M John Harrison - yes, I thought those would be great for gaming.

Stardust - after reading the book several years ago I nearly knocked a game together, then seeing the movie recently, I really want to do something in that setting.

How about the World of Tiers, by Phillip Jose Farmer?

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« Reply #49 on: November 26, 2007, 03:42:56 AM »
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How about the World of Tiers, by Phillip Jose Farmer?

There it is:
http://www.roliste.com/jeu.jsp?id=465
Swords & Wizardry & Manga ... oh my.
(Beware. This is a Kickstarter link.)

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« Reply #50 on: November 26, 2007, 03:10:56 PM »
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There it is:
http://www.roliste.com/jeu.jsp?id=465


Yeah, I found this after I mentioned it. Now all I have to do is learn to read French.....

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« Reply #51 on: November 27, 2007, 06:42:20 AM »
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Stardust - after reading the book several years ago I nearly knocked a game together, then seeing the movie recently, I really want to do something in that setting.


1PGs Idyll + Stardust is one sweet combo

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« Reply #52 on: November 27, 2007, 11:57:08 AM »
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1PGs Idyll + Stardust is one sweet combo


Yeah, I have Idyll (and all the other 1PG games). Never thought of that - I'll give it a look.

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« Reply #53 on: November 27, 2007, 12:54:26 PM »
maybe use bloode island for the skyship ?

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« Reply #54 on: November 27, 2007, 02:10:48 PM »
Jack Vance's Big Planet