PolarBlues
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There's a Mutant Chronicles movie??
Oh yes, with a pretty decent cast too. THe IMDB 5.2 rating seems very harsh to me. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/
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There's a Mutant Chronicles movie??
Runequest III: The Search For Pendragon?I think someone may have made a game out of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
I think someone may have made a game out of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Only very roughly, if I remember correctly. Not the same stats, not the same classes (no clerics), energy points for magic instead of Vancian casting. Actually mostly good ideas ;)
I think someone may have made a game out of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie: The Game
The Roleplaying Game based on the Movie Based on the Roleplaying Game
Buy now and get a special discount on The Lord of the Rings: The novelization of the movies based on the novels by JRR Tolkien by Alan Dean Foster.
Wasn't there a d20 / 3E D&D World of Warcraft?
Should have remembered that... I actually have it!Don’t forget the EverQuest RPG
Played that one. It’s shit.I think someone may have made a game out of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
I mean, how could they ever capture the feel when there weren't any rules for the DM's villain chewing the scenery.Played that one. It’s shit.
Burn Heretic!Possibly, I've never played either games
Decipher's Lord of the Rings. RPG based specifically on the Peter Jackson movies based on the books. Steve Long says that he didn't take that into account when writing it, but that was the nature and restriction of the license that it had to be based on the movies, not the books.
Damn, I forgot I had that hiding somewhere. How I didn't lose it to time.
Great cast, writing was not there and I think the actor's phoned it in. It was not even passable. It had a speck or two that made you go 'MAYBE?' then threw that away before the next breath. Sighs.Oh yes, with a pretty decent cast too. THe IMDB 5.2 rating seems very harsh to me. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/
I mean, how could they ever capture the feel when there weren't any rules for the DM's villain chewing the scenery.
Very similar to blue balls.I still want to know what bonuses having blue lips gives my character.
Dying, and then staying dead?I mean really, is there anything that hasn't been true at some point in the Marvel universe?
Dying, and then staying dead?
OK. I haven't followed Marvel in a while. Uncle Ben I'll agree with, but isn't the Winter Soldier Bucky?During Shooter's run as EIC, one of the rules was that there were only two characters who had to stay dead: Bucky and Uncle Ben.
OK. I haven't followed Marvel in a while. Uncle Ben I'll agree with, but isn't the Winter Soldier Bucky?
So it's not just my imagination.
Yeah, that story came 20 years later. This was Bucky back then:
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An embarrassing reminder of the sidekick trend of the Golden Age started by Robin The Boy Wonder
For example: he actually wore full pants ...To be fair, by Golden Age sidekick standards, he actually had one of the better costumes.
To be fair, by Golden Age sidekick standards, he actually had one of the better costumes.
I think Cyberpunk 2020 had a module licensed off a novel series?
When Gravity Fails
The book was good, the RPG supplement was really excellent.There was indeed a setting supplement for both When Gravity Fails and Hardwired. The one for When Gravity Fails was best in my opinion.
It won't be as good as the one they made from the cartoon.I think someone may have made a game out of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
She's an idiot... as if that's going to stop anyone who wants to play in Hogwarts, through homebrew or some 'not-Potter' but close enough product. It's just an arrogant finger to her fans that like RPGs.
So the putative writers of a licensed HP property has to invent things, that become quasi-canon at the minimum.
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This is the mother of all snake pits, and for a woman with more money than God, what could possibly be the benefit to diving in?
Well, no ... nothing will stop gamers from doing anything they want, which isn't at all the point. I know I'm coming late to the party here, but you've got to look under the hood.
For one thing, licensed properties are complete pain in the ass all around. Alright, what do you need to know to run the Potterverse as a game? What do we actually know about the gameworld from the original books? Damn near nothing. We know about Hogwarts. We know about Diagon Alley and the Ministry. We know about Beauxbatons and Durmstrang ... but we don't know where they actually are. (Hell, Beauxbatons could be in Belgium or the French-speaking parts of Switzerland, for all we know.) We know that there are wizards in Godric's Hollow, but that Hogsmeade is the sole wizarding-only community in Britain. You can't run a game on that little.
So the putative writers of a licensed HP property has to invent things, that become quasi-canon at the minimum. And the property owners universally despite that. (Hell, the Tolkien estate compelled Iron Crown to write most of their plotlines centuries earlier than LotR, however much JRRT was many years in the ground and not writing anything more.) From my personal experience, for example, DC Heroes didn't want anything created that might tie the hands of the writers of their current comics.
Those same license writers then have to confront contradictions, inconsistencies and often the sheer illogic of their settings. I don't need to parrot the Potterverse's shortcomings in these areas; tens of thousands of writers on fanfiction.net alone have done that. (I do question how ready the average gamer are -- soaked in the premise that the PCs are the cocks of the walk and the masters of all they survey -- to play in a game setting involving a stultifying and thoroughly corrupt parliamentary dictatorship, where the routine reaction to children being tortured and abused is "Gosh, what a shame.")
Then you have those 64 Knut questions such as: movie or books? Do we include Fantastic Beasts? Can we touch the material on Pottermore? Is Cursed Child in play? What about Rowling's interviews, the initial source of the material about Dumbledore's sexuality, for instance? Does Rowling have control over all of that? (I'd have to think not exclusive over the movie content, anyway.) What she certainly doesn't have control over is the vast backlog of fannish/fanon presumptions choking the setting like weeds. Remember how the fanbase went bonkers over Hermione played by a black actress in Cursed Child ... with Rowling asking rhetorically, in the background, precisely when she'd stipulated that HG was white?
Finally, as is commonly the case with licensed properties, the more intense the fan, the more they're likely to hate the result. They gave HOW many points to Potter? To Dumbledore? To Voldemort? Whaddaya mean there are men attending Beauxbatons -- there weren't any in the movie!!! Did you see that those bastards decided there was a school of magic in WALES??? The characters they loved weren't prominently featured, the characters they loathed were, and so on and so forth.
This is the mother of all snake pits, and for a woman with more money than God, what could possibly be the benefit to diving in?
Isn't a lot of the basic premise of Hogwarts minus the magic, basically just life in an English boarding school? Probably any boarding school really, with just a change of accent, add some magic and Dead Poets Society could be "Not Harry Potter".
Hmm add some Cthulhu instead of regular magic and the Dead Poet's could have been a much darker society.
Tom Brown's School Days is in the public domain, and what worked for Flashman could also work for sorcerers.Isn't a lot of the basic premise of Hogwarts minus the magic, basically just life in an English boarding school? Probably any boarding school really, with just a change of accent, add some magic and Dead Poets Society could be "Not Harry Potter".
The main thing I take from licensed RPGs is that they are doomed. Maybe not in the first or second year, but they'll struggle to keep paying those royalty cheques to the rights holder in year 3, 4 and 5
What have been the best licensed RPGs - not just in rules or presentation, but support and sheer enjoyment that they give for playing in that particular universe?
A British boarding school of the Thirties. Perhaps earlier. Like 'Stalky & Co.', 'To Serve Them All My Days', or the 'St Trinians' series were the source material. It was astoundingly retro. They didn't even have telephones.Isn't a lot of the basic premise of Hogwarts minus the magic, basically just life in an English boarding school?
Yeah, all the stuff about the pains of dealing with a licensed IP aside, you don't really need to know every detail about the Potterverse to build a game around it. You could base it all in Hogwarts and call it "Harry Potter: Adventures in Hogwarts!" or something like that, and maybe include a few minor details about the world for flavor to provide a general idea of what it is about, but just focus it all in the school and students getting into trouble going off on crazy adventures and that could be enough.
There's enough stuff in the books about the Ministry of Magic, Diagon Alley and magical society to extrapolate from it and provide some basic guidelines without going into full hog detail about the world at large in every corner of the planet.