How To Do A New British RPG

GRIM · October 28, 2009, 03:50:50 PM

Quote from: Ronin;340927I would totally play an "Invasion!" game.

The newer Savage stuff is much more approachable as a game format, I'm surprised Mongoose haven't done something with it yet, would double up as a minis skirmish game using their Battlefield Evolution rules set.

Ronin · October 28, 2009, 03:54:04 PM

Quote from: GRIM;340930The newer Savage stuff is much more approachable as a game format, I'm surprised Mongoose haven't done something with it yet, would double up as a minis skirmish game using their Battlefield Evolution rules set.

It would be fantastic if they did.

Seriously how could you not want to run that?!

RPGPundit · October 28, 2009, 04:18:55 PM

I think that Starblazer and Dr. Who, between the two of them, will have got it covered.

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Ghost Whistler · October 28, 2009, 04:40:44 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;340936I think that Starblazer and Dr. Who, between the two of them, will have got it covered.

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It's barely even a start...

aramis · October 28, 2009, 05:27:51 PM

Quote from: jdurall;340877I assume you're ruling out Dragon Warriors with that qualifier.

Would Ghosts of Albion count? (Though it's somewhere between .pdf and hardcopy, a place it's been for more than a year.)

It would be great to see someone do a modern/futuristic thriller RPG with London and Europe as the focus, essentially a British version of Spycraft or something of that nature.

But it's written in the US based on a BBCi TV show written by a yankee.

(Heck, it's gender-neutral victorian Buffy...)

Hairfoot · October 28, 2009, 07:26:56 PM

Quote from: jdurall;340882If only there were a British Bourne-like character with worldwide appeal...

I assume you mean Bond, but my first choice for a British Bourne would a Frederick Forsyth protagonist.

Forsyth and Robert Ludlum write the same sort of books, but with different nationalities.

David R · October 28, 2009, 08:14:48 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;340901The world needs a modern British take on the super hero genre. It'd probably end up pretty similar to Watchmen.

Maybe not modern but :

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/k/kingdom.htm

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/goldhero.htm

What I would like to see is a Robin the Hooded Man Pendragon-ish type game.

Maybe a sourcebook on British Gangsters - 60's and contemporary.

Regards,
David R

GRIM · October 29, 2009, 02:48:30 AM

Quote from: David R;340997Maybe not modern but :
Maybe a sourcebook on British Gangsters - 60's and contemporary.

Getting there...

David R · October 29, 2009, 04:53:56 AM

What system GRIM ? (Not that it really matters to me. If it sounds cool, I'm there)

Regards,
David R

GRIM · October 29, 2009, 05:22:49 AM

Quote from: David R;341071What system GRIM ? (Not that it really matters to me. If it sounds cool, I'm there)

Regards,
David R

Like most projects at the moment it's back on the back burner due to the need to get quicker, more profitable product and freelancing out.

I originally talked about doing it with Dog Town but that kind of petered out and on reflection I'm not sure it's quite right anyway.

Current inkling is to either do it using Xpress (my own system) or a grittier implementation of D6, templates work well for criminal stereotypes.

GRIM · October 29, 2009, 06:50:26 AM

Quote from: One Horse Town;340901The world needs a modern British take on the super hero genre. It'd probably end up pretty similar to Watchmen.

I'm thinking more...

The Boys

Or Planetary.

Something of a Postmodern/Re-examination of the genre.

jibbajibba · October 29, 2009, 06:53:22 AM

Quote from: GRIM;341079I'm thinking more...

The Boys

Or Planetary.

Something of a Postmodern/Re-examination of the genre.

Zenith? New States Men?

Actually you could argue that Marshal Law (despite being set in America, much like Judge Dredd) is quintessentially British.

GRIM · October 29, 2009, 07:45:31 AM

Quote from: jibbajibba;341080Zenith? New States Men?

Actually you could argue that Marshal Law (despite being set in America, much like Judge Dredd) is quintessentially British.

Definitely.

I wrote a Zenith RPG when I was much younger, I'd be embarrassed to look at it now but it would make a good game world. Shame the opportunity for superheros is rather limited, though I suppose Dr Payne could have made more on the sly.

Ghost Whistler · October 29, 2009, 08:43:27 AM

Quote from: GRIM;341084Definitely.

I wrote a Zenith RPG when I was much younger, I'd be embarrassed to look at it now but it would make a good game world. Shame the opportunity for superheros is rather limited, though I suppose Dr Payne could have made more on the sly.

Zenith is more CoC than superheroes.

You wouldn't really be designing a game more a supplement ofr an existing SHRPG with British themed characters, and even they wouldn't be particularly different (at least mechanically).

Ghost Whistler · October 29, 2009, 08:52:11 AM

One of 2000ad's trademark style things is it's puns, the most famous example is the way city blocks in Judge Dredd get named (after famous people, usually in some way linekd to the story at hand - so there might be a ghost in Demi Moore block, or a civil rights disturbance at Rosa Parks). The comic has been doing this since day 1. Where else would you have a pair of war robots (well one who's a sewer robot) called Rojaws and Hammerstein.