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Offical Transformers RPG, plus GI Joe, etc, etc.

Started by Ratman_tf, September 01, 2021, 12:11:35 AM

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Oddend

#15
September 01, 2021, 09:51:01 PM
While licensed products are nothing new, and many licensed products are dope AF, this simultaneous rollout of three analogous licensed product lines does make me wonder what will be different between them, other than the pictures (or even the text).

Almost_Useless

#16
September 01, 2021, 10:12:08 PM
Quote from: Squidi on September 01, 2021, 12:34:17 PM
...and every adventure would require somebody to play as Shipwreck, for no discernible reason.

Okay, stay with me.  We do a convention one-shot.  COBRA has some kind of dimension shifting machine and GI Joes from alternate timelines team up to shut it down.  They're all different versions of Shipwreck.  U.S. Navy Shipwreck.  Atlantis-Never-Sank Shipwreck.  Steampunk Airship Shipwreck.  Colonies-Lost-in-1776 British Shipwreck. But everybody's bird is exactly the same.

palaeomerus

#17
September 01, 2021, 10:42:22 PM
I find your lack of robot cowboy centaur Shipwreck (& the other three kooky teen agers that make up the rest of the rock band he plays in as they travel the forests of Jupiter's lost moon Sylvanus looking for gigs and solving mysteries) most disturbing.
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zircher

#18
September 01, 2021, 11:24:02 PM
The thing I find most interesting is that Hasbro did NOT go to WotC to make these games.  I think Hasbro knows the flaming SJW train wreck that Wizards would make of these properties.
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Ratman_tf

#19
September 01, 2021, 11:26:41 PM
Quote from: Oddend on September 01, 2021, 09:51:01 PM
While licensed products are nothing new, and many licensed products are dope AF, this simultaneous rollout of three analogous licensed product lines does make me wonder what will be different between them, other than the pictures (or even the text).

Yeah. I put even odds it's a "generic" system that doesn't really match any of the specific properties.
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jeff37923

#20
September 01, 2021, 11:50:54 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 01, 2021, 01:22:39 PM
A 2001: A Space Odyssey RPG adaptation? Uh...

Kinda having a tough time figuring that one out.

2001 and 2010 were made for Star Frontiers and as movie tie-ins were OK. As adventures, they absolutely sucked ass. You have never seen a railroad like a movie adaptation adventure.
"Meh."

jeff37923

#21
September 01, 2021, 11:55:57 PM
And to be honest, I've stolen designs from the Buck Rogers TV series for my own Star Wars games.
"Meh."

Ratman_tf

#22
September 02, 2021, 10:31:40 AM
Quote from: jeff37923 on September 01, 2021, 11:55:57 PM
And to be honest, I've stolen designs from the Buck Rogers TV series for my own Star Wars games.

I love the Scorpion model. It's a super neat kitbash.
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rocksfalleverybodydies

#23
September 02, 2021, 12:59:16 PM
Quote from: palaeomerus on September 01, 2021, 07:59:10 PM
Oh you sweet summer children, I have such things to show you....

The story-gamer types would have loved Dallas no doubt.  Talk about high fantasy roleplaying.
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Anon Adderlan

#24
September 04, 2021, 04:14:08 AM
Quote from: Pat on September 01, 2021, 09:37:03 PM
But if you want a really obscure license, how about a game based on an animated early aughts webcomic about a cyberpunk dystopian future NYC with wormtrains, giant cockroaches, zombie mooks, and the eponymous innocent girl in indestructible, living armor?



Oh hey I have this one.

Quote from: zircher on September 01, 2021, 11:24:02 PM
The thing I find most interesting is that Hasbro did NOT go to WotC to make these games.  I think Hasbro knows the flaming SJW train wreck that Wizards would make of these properties.

Interesting indeed.

Armchair Gamer

#25
September 04, 2021, 09:20:25 AM
Quote from: zircher on September 01, 2021, 11:24:02 PM
The thing I find most interesting is that Hasbro did NOT go to WotC to make these games.  I think Hasbro knows the flaming SJW train wreck that Wizards would make of these properties.

  I suspect it's more that going to WotC would require Hasbro to either divert resources from D&D, or invest more resources into WotC, which might not be cost-effective.

Shawn Driscoll

#26
September 04, 2021, 02:43:38 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on September 01, 2021, 12:11:35 AM
I was googling for Tranformers themed dice and came across Renegade studios who are making an official RPG for Transformers, and a bunch of other Hasbro IPs, including GI Joe.

https://renegadegamestudios.com/transformers-roleplaying-game-core-rulebook-pre-order/
I prefer the animated RPG over the CG version.

Ratman_tf

#27
September 04, 2021, 04:40:41 PM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on September 04, 2021, 02:43:38 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on September 01, 2021, 12:11:35 AM
I was googling for Tranformers themed dice and came across Renegade studios who are making an official RPG for Transformers, and a bunch of other Hasbro IPs, including GI Joe.

https://renegadegamestudios.com/transformers-roleplaying-game-core-rulebook-pre-order/
I prefer the animated RPG over the CG version.

If you mean the cartoon over the live action films, I'd agree with you.
But then there's been a zillion cartoon and comic adaptations. It's hard to pin down one source for the IP.

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Shasarak

#28
September 04, 2021, 05:55:47 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on September 04, 2021, 04:40:41 PM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on September 04, 2021, 02:43:38 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on September 01, 2021, 12:11:35 AM
I was googling for Tranformers themed dice and came across Renegade studios who are making an official RPG for Transformers, and a bunch of other Hasbro IPs, including GI Joe.

https://renegadegamestudios.com/transformers-roleplaying-game-core-rulebook-pre-order/
I prefer the animated RPG over the CG version.

If you mean the cartoon over the live action films, I'd agree with you.
But then there's been a zillion cartoon and comic adaptations. It's hard to pin down one source for the IP.

Put me down for G1
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Armchair Gamer

#29
September 04, 2021, 06:58:01 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on September 04, 2021, 04:40:41 PM
If you mean the cartoon over the live action films, I'd agree with you.
But then there's been a zillion cartoon and comic adaptations. It's hard to pin down one source for the IP.

  Going by the cover, it looks like the baseline is the current (IDW/War for Cybertron?) reinterpretation of G1. Tough for me to be sure, since with the exception of Regeneration One (I bought into it since I was following the G1 comic when it was new on newsstands, sporadically at first but with a continuous run from #47-80), I haven't kept up with the IP much since the start of Energon or so.
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