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« Reply #45 on: January 01, 2016, 01:47:58 PM »
I would love to see Disgaea or Persona as a licensed setting. A comedy horror game set on Earth, Celestia, and Hell for Disgaea. A dark horror setting for high schoolers, college students, or people just establishing themselves in modern professions forced to face their inner demons and shadows as well as deal with real life problems in Persona.

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« Reply #46 on: January 01, 2016, 02:11:38 PM »
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Fallout - although I'm running a rather successful game of it so far using GURPS, which makes sense, since that was the "engine" Fallout was originally going to use. My only difficulty at the moment is scaling the encounters for a group of 5-6 instead of just 1 (as in the games), but I'm making progress and everyone's enjoying it. I would like decent stats for the actual Fallout weapons (instead of just using ones from the regular GURPS books) and stats for the critters however.

Someone upstream mentioned X-Com - I LOVE THAT GAME SERIES. I think GURPS would work well for that as well, using supplements like Black Ops which is very X-Comish, and Special Forces.


Fallouts based loosely on Wasteland which is uses Tunnels & Trolls, or more Specifically Ninjas, Spies & Private Eyes. So wouldnt be too hard to convert over if you have the NSP book. Which I have not seen in decades. Friend had it.

Warcraft had an official RPG book for d20. Only saw in passing and have no clue how good or bad it was.

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« Reply #47 on: January 01, 2016, 02:16:36 PM »
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PLEASE find that RQ6 Elder Scrolls, I've not been able to find it. I did find the hack of WFRP2.0, which was really well done. I think RQ6 would be a perfect fit. Thanks for looking.


There's this, for one: http://uesrpg.blogspot.com/

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« Reply #48 on: January 01, 2016, 02:20:55 PM »
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I played a lot of video games in the 80s and very early 90s on my Apple IIGS and nintendo. I played a bit when playstation came out as well. So I am pretty rusty with video game settings. But I remember loving the King's Quest stuff (or pretty much anything put out by Sierra at the time). Zelda would be on my list as well. The Bards Tale games and the Sword of Vermillion. But i honestly can't remember many details about the settings beyond simply enjoying them. Phantasy Star might be interesting because it is so weird.


Kings Quest allways struck me as something that would make a good fantasy version of Paranoia.

Theres been some tries at converting Zelda to a tabletop RPG.

The original Bards Tale series would be interesting. I think perhaps Tunnels & Trolls would fit it. Just need to stat out Mangar's Mind Mallet and Rime of Duotime and off we go. ahem.

Phantasy Star might fit Gamma World with a little upgrade in civilization levels. Maybe with a little BX D&D added.

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« Reply #49 on: January 01, 2016, 02:21:10 PM »
I'd go with Mortal Kombat.

Although a fighting game might seem like a weird choice, the setting's presentation is sufficiently grim that it's a world that's self-evidently crying out for heroes. Moreover, there's been subtle variations in how the threats are portrayed; you can have a group of people trying to keep Earth safe from Outworld threats, or you can go with a full-on dimensional invasion, or even play as people living in Outworld trying to free other, already-conquered dimensions (e.g. Edenia).

I also like that the setting keeps a fairly tight rein on magic, compared to most fantasy stories. Most special powers are tightly focused around combat applications, and even sorcerers and deities are very limited in the scope of how mutable their magic is.

That, and there's such a wide range of what sort of characters can be made. Humans, vampires, cyborgs, demons, gods. The game does a surprisingly good job of making so many disparate elements fit together, while still having a sense that many different things are possible.

And hey, if you have rules that put emphasis on fighting, well, the series lends itself to that quite well.

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« Reply #50 on: January 01, 2016, 02:25:20 PM »
Mass Effect. D6 Mass Effect.  :D

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« Reply #51 on: January 01, 2016, 03:29:29 PM »
Yeah, Mass Effect would be solid.

The Starcraft universe might also make for good sci fi sandbox play.

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« Reply #52 on: January 01, 2016, 03:33:37 PM »
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I'd go with Mortal Kombat.



White Wolf did a little book that more or less did that. Think was called Combat! or somesuch.

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« Reply #53 on: January 01, 2016, 03:42:53 PM »
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White Wolf did a little book that more or less did that. Think was called Combat! or somesuch.


There was Streetfighter: The Storytelling game

and World Of Darkness: Combat which adapted the previous game's combat system to the World of Darkness.

Edit: And the Burn Legend setting in Shards of the Exalted Dream, sort of a variant Exalted setting with combat system that resembled those previous two.
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« Reply #54 on: January 01, 2016, 03:48:06 PM »
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I'd go with Mortal Kombat.


I'd like to see this one too. The setting actually seems pretty developed and interesting as seen in the story mode cut scenes, particularly in the more recent games with descent characterization and change across the line.

I'd like to see one for the Streetfighter franchise too. I didn't care for White Wolf's version (Storyteller is not the rule set I'd use for high combat cinematic action).

Fight!: The Fighting game rpg does a great emulating the broad genre but I'd like to see some  make something more specific for both franchises.
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« Reply #55 on: January 01, 2016, 04:24:58 PM »
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The issue I have with the Souls series is that people ascribe a lot of lore, that frankly, they just make up.  There are several incidents in the each of the Dark series (I didn't get far in the Demon's Souls game to make any sense of it) that are linked together, but there's nothing in any of the lore bits that actually connects them.  They could be happening centuries, days or hours apart.  But we're never told.


See that is a benefit.  Your suppose to be searching out the truth and coming up to your own conclusion.  Also if you stick a campaign in its separate era you can make up your own lure.

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« Reply #56 on: January 01, 2016, 04:35:35 PM »
The obvious one for me is the Witcher series, especially the most recent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHc3JZixRY
For the most part a brilliantly realised setting that puts most other video games to shame. It also already feels close to what a RuneQuest game I imagine would be like, probably because it feels very grounded in its setting and playing it always seems risky.

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« Reply #57 on: January 01, 2016, 05:55:19 PM »
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I'd go with Mortal Kombat.

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I'd like to see one for the Streetfighter franchise too. I didn't care for White Wolf's version (Storyteller is not the rule set I'd use for high combat cinematic action).

I spent far too many coins at these arcade games. Love the idea.

I once drafted a Ninjas & Superspies adventure I never got to run called Tournament of Blood. It was pretty much Bloodsport with a side order of Eric Van Lustbader and the usual Palladium madness of cybernetic implants and mystic martial arts powers.

You had this Bloodsport-like underground fighting tournament with martial artists from all over the world competing, and high-roller criminals and despots from all over the world coming to watch, bet, socialize, seal new deals and settle old scores.

Players all played martial artists. Whether they were there for the prize, to settle a score (classic "guy who killed your father figure is competing as well") or as undercover law enforcement (or hitman, or bounty hunter) to nab a crime boss, that'd be entirely up to them.

I know it's not, strictly speaking, Street Fighter (which had its own RPG, and a solid one too, or so I'm told), but once the cyborg soldier and the mystic martial artist are trading blows, it's at very least the next best thing. Plus there's intrigue and unlikely alliances and vast criminal empires rising and falling.

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« Reply #58 on: January 01, 2016, 06:06:35 PM »
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Why haven't anyone mentioned Bioshock yet?
I've only played Infinite but I'm not really seeing the wider potential for it in a TTRPG. The city location it takes place in is big and detailed... but as presented in the game it's not a place I'd want to explore so much as escape... or destroy. Some Dystopian games like Deus Ex seem open to potential... the world has gone to shit but it feels like you might be able to make it better... fighting for the citizens, whereas in Bioshock you're fighting against the citizens and the only way to fix it is to burn it down.

It certainly has potential as a nasty area to end up in during a wider campaign, but since the outside world isn't shown there's no clue where you'd be coming from or returning to.
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« Reply #59 on: January 01, 2016, 06:34:48 PM »
Let me be the first to suggest Super Mario Brothers. Take the series as a whole, with the CRPGs included, and you have a fantastic backdrop for all kinds of adventures. Scrape the candy coating off of everything and you have a setting that is metal as fuck.

I'll also second Street Fighter. I'm a big fan of the White Wolf game, but Street Fighter has gone through a lot since the SFII days, and there was plenty of room for expansion and refinement in the game rules.

BioWare's getting a lot of love already, but I'd say that Jade Empire deserves a full RPG treatment-- an amazing game with an amazing setting.
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