The 'Raven' series by 'Richard Kirk', mostly notable for the Achilleos & Royo book covers.  The writing is pretty terrible but it's an interesting setting for  '80s swords & sorcery.

Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar series of novels. The setting was actually originally for a play by mail game he ran. The novels apparently don't sell well, so I doubt it would, but it would be kinda neat to see.

I'd also like to see Timothy Zahn's stand alone (AFAIK) novel Triplet. It's set in a science fiction setting that has a fantasy world "inside" a world that has alien ruins. Basically you walk inside a gateway and you end up inside a fantasy world. Except it's not real fantasy, but fantasy in the Clarke's law sense (super high technology) But then there is yet another fantasy world inside that one, that actually is a fantasy world with nor real notable technology, but spirits that can be summoned.  It's a surprisingly well developed idea for what I guess was a throw away novel for Baen Books.  Curiously, the cover was re-used by Steve Jackson Games for one of their GURPs supplements. Magic, maybe? It's a purple blue-ish cover of a guy summoning something.

And if you are talking Public Domain stuff, then I would go with H. Beam Piper's Space Viking. He had a whole universe (well, galaxy) developed that I am quite fond of. Is Paratime Police stories might also work

I'd go with U.F.O. but maybe not Gerry Anderson's series, pain to get the license. Same concept.

How about a War of the Worlds 2 based on the H G. Wells classic novel with a "second wave" invading a more prepared earth. I would give the Martians a few weaknesses besides germs to make it interesting.  Steam punk horror sf.

Basing a game on the anime "Dirty pair" universe could be cool.

Masamune Shirow's Appleseed would likely be top of the list. His lesser known "Tank police" anime/manga could be good too.

Quote from: darthfozzywig;985531Plus, I still have my Eagle Lander ship from when I was little. The three-foot-long spaceship.

You are a metal god.

Quote from: WillInNewHaven;985535Thanks all. Great ideas, although I think DEEDS would be expensive. I like the public domain suggestions. If anyone wants to give more suggestions or tell me to go to Hell or whatever, I will be checking for responses now and then.

It may be but you won't know until you contact the author or her agent. Sometime you will be surprised at the result of a friendly contact.

The newer novels have gotten me thinking about Buck Rogers (the late 70s-early 80s TV series) again, and how it would pair well with D6.

Quote from: Schwartzwald;985598How about a War of the Worlds 2 based on the H G. Wells classic novel with a "second wave" invading a more prepared earth.

There was a TV series that was kind of about such a thing when I was a kid. I never watched it, but from what I recall of glimpses I caught it looked like they went for an espionage/horror approach, with the Martians creating human clones agents... or something like that.

EDIT: Reading the synopsis of the show on Wikipedia tells me that my guesses about the show are all sorts of wrong... but apparently the first season of the show was pretty good.

R. Scott Bakker's world of Earwa from his series "The Prince of Nothing". Hellenic/Byzantine iron-age sword-and-super-sorcery. It's the Silmarillion meets Cthulhu and they make sweet tentacle-love and produce a pretty amazing and dark world. With at least one laser gun. And a big spaceship. That ending tho...

Quote from: Technomancer;985654The newer novels have gotten me thinking about Buck Rogers (the late 70s-early 80s TV series) again, and how it would pair well with D6.

Very well, actually. I've been converting the spacecraft from Buck Rogers, Old Battlestar Galactica, Space Academy, and Jason of Star Command to d6 Star Wars. It is pretty nice because the models were all made by the same special effects crews.

Quote from: Simlasa;985522I think all the Clark Ashton Smith stuff is in public domain now as well... despite what Arkham House might like to think. So I'd say Zothique, Hyperborea, Averoigne... and his scifi stories.

I think this could take off at a cult/OSR level.

Keith Laumer's Retief setting for a science fiction/fantasy one.

William Hope Hodgson's Nightland

Quote from: Simlasa;985561the greater Andersonverse... which would meld U.F.O. and Space 1999 and Captain Scarlett and The Thunderbirds and Joe 90 and Stingray and Fireball XL-5 and Space Precinct...

Don't forget Terrahawks!

Anyway, mine would be Hawk the Slayer. Hula-hoop, rubber ball, and silly string sorcery for the win!

Don't know if this is "obscure," but neither are many of the other entries up above...

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Quote from: David Johansen;985552Jack Vance, The Dragon Lords: a lost colony genetically engineers gargantuan fighting steeds from captured alien invaders.

I remember that! I was probably 13 when I read it, but I loved it at the time. I drew a lot of saurian-riddled battles after that.