RPGs That Should Exist - 2021 Edition

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I'm late to the party, so please forgive me some...
TristramEvans said:
Figure we could use a new thread for this, the old one's long gone, an sort of bogged down in a lot of posts before we really got into the wing of things.

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Ok, yes, but WHY IS IT MADE WITH ROLEMASTER?!
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Um...weren't some of the toys based off of Battletech?
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Hey! I loved that show! It also helped give rise to Disney's Tailspin cartoon!
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I've been to a few of those college halloween parties. They don't end well.
Picaroon Jack said:
My collection of Mad Max Car Wars stuff:

1st Edition:
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2nd Edition:
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2nd Edition Expansion:
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The GURPS RPG:
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If you don't know about it, you really should go download Atomic Highway off of DrvethruRPG right now.
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They just Kickstarted something almost exactly like this. No, really.
Jenx said:
Just watching this again. It's not brilliant (Tom Hardy grunts through it) but seems obvious fodder for RPGs. Can't remember if anyone done one...

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Atomic Highway. Free. On DriveThruRPG. Right now. You can build characters, customize vehicles, and be playing in 20-30 minutes.
FreeGamer said:
Yeah, I went there. This is the game that made me almost hate that Mistborn exists. Almost. :hehe:

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This. And all the damn boardgames that aren't Spycraft 3. Seriously.
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This exists. It's not Victorianna. It has its own system. It's a pretty good line.
 
That looked like one my crew used to use for MERP back in the day. Don't get me wrong, I like MERP and VsDM but I would want to play the Legend of Zelda with something lighter in rules and tone.
 
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This is a game I would kill to have been a real thing back in the 80's. Obviously it would have been a British game.

What system would it have used? My money is on either a BRP derived product, a version of Advanced Fighting Fantasy or Dragon Warriors.

Or it might have its own system probably simple and D6 based.
 
TristramEvans said:
Not eexactly... https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/battletech-the-future-of-the-80s-forever.1820/#post-53804
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I had the first series Mauler, Sloth, Infiltrator, and Banshee. IIRC we got them at a Rose's that was going out of business.

Also, I had a TON of Exo-Squad stuff.

Oh, man, speaking of "RPGs That Should Exist" I should photoshop up a EXO Squad RPG book cover. Also, mad respect for the Exo-Squad cartoon love. It really is the western Gundam (even down to paralleling the Western Front of WWII while Gundam paralleled the Eastern Front)
 
EmperorNorton said:
Also, mad respect for the Exo-Squad cartoon love. It really is the western Gundam (even down to paralleling the Western Front of WWII while Gundam paralleled the Eastern Front)
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Yeah, it came at exactly the right time for me, when I hadn't yet discovered anime, but I'd given up on Saturday morning cartoons just a few years before. And suddenly here is this epic war drama that is honestly really maturely written about some pretty complex moral issues. Don't know how many pre-adolescent viewers picked up on the allegories inherent in a genetically-engineered slave race revolt told from the POV of good people on the sorta-badder side, but it was paced well with the action and left the deeper stuff to subtext most of the time.

But this most radical thing about it was that it was long-form storytelling. That's so common for TV shows today but, outside of soaps, super rare at the time. Episodic entertainment ruled. And Exo-Squad used it so well, crafted this satisfying story with real character arcs and consequences to actions that played out naturally, and still make every episode count and leaving the viewer wanting more. I still wish we had gotten more, but the initial premise got a satisfying resolution at least.
 
TristramEvans said:
Yeah, i came at exactly the right time for me, when I hadn't yet discovered anime, but I'd given up on Saturday morning cartoons just a few years before. And suddenly here is this epic war drama that is honestly really maturely written about some pretty complex moral issues. Don't know how many pre-adolescent viewers picked up on the allegories inherent in a genetically-engineered slave race revolt told from the POV of good people on the sorta-badder side, but it was paced well with the action and left the deeper stuff to subtext most of the time.

But this most radical thing about it was that it was long-form storytelling. That's so common for TV shows today but, outside of soaps, super rare at the time. Episodic entertainment ruled. And Exo-Squad used it so well, crafted this satisfying story with real character arcs and consequences to actions that played out naturally, and still make every episode count and leaving the viewer wanting more. I still wish we had gotten more, but the initial premise got a satisfying resolution at least.
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Man, I so love Exosquad.
 
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