What games do you want to play/run? - Existing material

[Silus]

So I'm curious, what are some games you want to either play or run that are based off of or inspired from already existing material?

This material can be anything such as books, movies, TV shows, even music. Just something you see and you're like "Man, I REALLY wanna play that".

For me, I'd like to play a game based around Log Horizon (I am aware that there's a TTRPG of it but it's not been translated) and one that's a combination of Maoyuu Maou Yuusha and Spice And Wolf. An economic game that's not 100% "Go out and kill the thing to save the world".

So what about ya'll? I'm curious.

[BoardPep]

I think Soul Eater would be interesting to base a game on.

I'd probably run it something like... Meisters are non-magical classes (or those with only secondary magic) and Weapons are magical classes (which become weapons and cast / use abilities while they are weapons).

[Amphetryon]

Trinity Blood would be nice.

[Silus]

Ooooh, The Shadow Over Innsmouth (or At The Mountains of Madness) + Alien: Isolation.

[dream]

Smoking Aces or Wanted covered in GURPS.

[Vitruviansquid]

I want to put Futurama into a fantasy setting. In essence, a magical world of elves and dragons that is just as stupid and tacky as the real world.

[Oberon Kenobi]

A friend of mine recently almost ran a game in the Nobilis setting, only using Hillfolk's DramaSystem to make all the narratively interesting bits of the setting (Codes and Factions, relationships between Nobles, the Code Fidelitatis, etc.) take center stage. I really want to see that happen, even if I have to run it myself.

Also, I really want to run Phoenix Wright using the conspiracy investigation mechanics from Eagle Eyes FAE.

I want to put Futurama into a fantasy setting. In essence, a magical world of elves and dragons that is just as stupid and tacky as the real world.

I would play the heck out of that!

[Forrestfire]

I'd really like to run a rehash of Guardians of the Galaxy set in Spelljammer, with the Rod of Seven Parts taking the place of the Infinity Stones, and Asmodeus as Thanos.

[Excession]

Burn Notice: Waterdeep. No idea what system could model it well.

Runner up: Deadwood Fantasy Edition. Simpler, so I'm much more likely to run this one.

[MrStabby]

I don't know if this counts but I am currently plotting an adventure for my group that is pretty heavily based on Shakespeare. We open with the Tempest and a shipwreck, then there is a palace intrigue involving murderous uncles, portentous ghosts and an invasion from the north. Add in a dose of Witches, rebellion, more ghosts... It is a shameless ripoff but should be fun.

The other setting I think would be fun is Terry Pratchett's discworld - specifically the 5th elephant. A number of different factions, different characters all wanting different things, quite a bit of combat: monsters, assassins, vampires, werewolves, dwarfs, humans...

[Actana]

Metal Gear Rising using Fate Core's Jadepunk rules and setting. Instead of cyberpunk wuxia (which is what MGR is, effectively), we have steampunk wuxia.

[Mastikator]

The Traveller game/setting is something I've always wanted to try

[DigoDragon]

I want to run a Fallout campaign in the central Florida area. I'm even putting together a campaign book to use with d20 Modern. Hit a bit of a bum mood though due to a lack of feedback anywhere on my concept thus far. Still hopeful though.


The other idea I want to run is a My Little Pony gothic horror campaign based loosely on a marriage between Expedition to Castle Ravenloft and Castlevania 2. Not sure of the system, though someone recomended I check out Tri-Stat dX (for its simplicity and that it's free online).

[Arcuriel]

A campaign where the characters are agents of an organization dedicated to finding and imprisoning things from the Far Realm, with the motto Secure, Contain, Protect Restrain, Flank, Defend

[Flickerdart]

There are two books that would make excellent D&D settings.

Monday Begins on Saturday is a 1960s Soviet novel about a public research university that studies magic, chock full of things like dragon firing ranges, infinite libraries, literal Maxwell demons as doormen, Merlin as one of the professors, etc. The book's POV protagonist is a beleaguered computer programmer who doesn't really do the whole magic thing, but there's no reason the PCs couldn't. Who needs a Masquerade when you can get federal research grants?

A Canticle for Leibowitz is about a post-nuclear war America that has descended to medieval-level tech and feudalism, with the Church trying to rediscover lost science. Mutants and "dungeons" aren't hard to come by, which means loot, loot, loot!

[TheThan]

The other idea I want to run is a My Little Pony gothic horror campaign based loosely on a marriage between Expedition to Castle Ravenloft and Castlevania 2. Not sure of the system, though someone recomended I check out Tri-Stat dX (for its simplicity and that it's free online).

As long as you include incredibly cryptic clues to incredibly obtuse puzzles and super-pausing text that completely interrupts the flow of the platforming, then by all means.

I’ve been wanting to play/Dm a mashup of Firefly and star trek. A ragtag crew of a tramp freighter trying to survive on the fringes of galactic society. Each of the standard trek factions pose their own unique threats. The Klingons will kill you; the Romulans will use you, the Kardassians will jail you, the Ferengi which will cheat you, the borg which will assimilate you, and the Federation will bog you down in red tape.

When you look at trek as a whole, we see little glimpses of what life is like on the fringe, and even meet some interesting characters, Harry Mudd, Vash, Kassidy Yates, Cyrano Jones, heck Quark in his bar. But we never really get to fully explore the idea; we just get these little glimpses of it here and there.

I should really go back to work on it. Especially since I’m doing a lets watch of TOS.

[dream]

Lord of the Rings or Valhalla Rising using the Rules Cyclopedia/BECM.

[hiryuu]

I want to run a Fallout campaign in the central Florida area. I'm even putting together a campaign book to use with d20 Modern. Hit a bit of a bum mood though due to a lack of feedback anywhere on my concept thus far. Still hopeful though.

Oh! I have done this before! They fought a giant alligator ghoul from inside a piloted version of the big robot from 3. Also, there were so many mutants. So many.

I will likely do so again. I might be persuaded to forum or skype it, but I have never done forum games before.

I made a lot of handouts.

I will look at your thing! ...as soon as my browser starts to cooperate.

*ahem*
I have always wanted to run a game based on "Magical Kingdom for Sale SOLD." My concept title is "Nobles Wanted for Magical Kingdom Position Filled."

Want to run Geist as a space opera, because Harlock was a thing of greatness.

Speaking of Geist, want to run it as a toku drama. Because Kamen Rider and Super Sentai are awesome.

Want to run a game where the PCs are government agents working for the United States and Costa Rica to do cleanup/management of Isla Sorna/Site B.

[Eisenheim]

I've recently gotten the idea of running a prequel to the Roger Zelazny story Lord of Light with the new fate world Gods and Monsters.

[HolyCouncilMagi]

Earthsea. The author was already spoken to and said no to the possibility, so I know I'll never get to enjoy it on its own dedicated system, but if it had one I would play it to death and back. As it is, subpar shoe-ins on other systems are my only option.

[Zombimode]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Been there, done that. As an adaptation. Set in the Forgotten Realms, even. Don't ask, it worked.



My list of franchises I want to run as campaign is growing steadily.

On the top are the first 12 books of the Lone Wolf game book series, recreated as a long campaign using GURPS.

Then I dream of a Vvardenfell game (that is where Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is set). I like the Elder Scrolls setting in general, but Morrowind is the pinnacle of how the world at large, and Vvardenfell itself, is presented. Probably using D&D 3.5 for this one.

A modern survival game set in in confined Zone of radioactivity, mutants and weird phenomenons, preferably in the Ukraine. Yes, the capitalization was intentional: I'm talking about STALKER. GURPS or Savage World should suffice.

Rather similar, I think that the setting of the original Gothic (the video game) would make an excellent location for a game. Again, hacking something together with GURPS or Savage World would fit.

And recently I thought a lot about a game set in Black Mesa, during the Black Mesa Incicent. I have NO idea how make a game like this work and actively doubt that this would be a good idea, but... a free man can dream

[ScrivenerofDoom]

I would love to run Dragonstar (FFG's dragons-and-magic-in-space d20 campaign world) using a combination of Numenera and the Cypher system which I think would work really well.

[DigoDragon]

As long as you include incredibly cryptic clues to incredibly obtuse puzzles and super-pausing text that completely interrupts the flow of the platforming, then by all means.

Heh, I dunno if I want to be that mean to my players. XD

I’ve been wanting to play/Dm a mashup of Firefly and star trek.

I was in one of those, but the GM became flaky and disorganized after a few sessions. I didn't stay for the whole campaign. It did start off pretty fun. One PC was the ship captain with the cargo ship and we all show up for the job offer the captain put out on the... whatever is the Trek equivalent of Monster.com So basically we all got to do introductions as a sort of "Interview" with the captain and then we're hired.

Oh! I have done this before! They fought a giant alligator ghoul from inside a piloted version of the big robot from 3. Also, there were so many mutants. So many.

That Florida map is cool! Did you make that yourself? :D

I will definitely take advice if you got any. O-Town is going to be my hub for the campaign (obvious reason) and I'm branching out ideas from there.

[Anonymouswizard]

I have an itching to run an Alan Wake style game where the players have influence over reality itself, but everything must make sense and balance (think a party of AoSues with the need to be careful or else reality weakens).

There's also the Mass Effect inspired Space Opera I'm working on, but it's becoming it's own thing.

I actually have plans for a Kamen Rider game using Fate or a simple homebrew system, but know nobody who would be interested.

Oh, and 'Tier 1 Wizard Madoka Magica', for the ****s and giggles of trying to make the setting work in 3.5 core only. It will either be able to get the feeling of the series across or fall flat on it's face.

[hiryuu]

That Florida map is cool! Did you make that yourself? :D

I will definitely take advice if you got any. O-Town is going to be my hub for the campaign (obvious reason) and I'm branching out ideas from there.

In Fallout canon, the southeastern US is not a wasteland - it's a teeming mass of mutant plants due to an accident involving sevral GECKs and the bombs themselves. There may or may not be intelligent gators there.

I gave myself rules.

1. Anyone trying to rebuild the past directly is doomed to failure - this is why the Brotherhood is falling apart, it's refusing to change its ways to match the situtation. It's why the NCR is stretched too thin, it's trying too hard to be America as it was believed to be. It's why the Enclave was doomed from the start. It's why the Legion is turning into a monster that will destroy as much as (or more than) it builds. Things are different now, they're new. Trying to touch what lies beyond the veil of atomic fire will inevitably destroy the hand that reaches.

2. Mutations are crazy in Florida. We're talking the Hill Have Eyes, and It's Maybe Six or Seven Per Arm type mutations. All the water from the Appalachians and central plains region eventually rolls down into the Florida acquifer - there's so much radiation the ecosystem likely depends on it entirely, and it's fading since the events of Fallout 3, opening the doors.

3. Fallout is the "X-treme" 90s version of everything you'd find in the given area - you can't turn around in the Capitol Wastes without seeing an Enclave flag or some kind of constant skirmishing, fighting, themes of freedom and imprisonment, and political backhand. You can't walk across the Mojave unless you're a lone gunslinger fighting to save/destroy anything you come across. Florida should be the same - the cicadas will kill you with their high-decibel cries, there's so much racial tension you could drizzle it on the pancakes you made at DeLeon springs, and the nights under the trees are so dark and humid that you could practically cut it into a loaf of bread. Made myself learn a lot about the state's weird history before I start setting things up.

[TheThan]

I was in one of those, but the GM became flaky and disorganized after a few sessions. I didn't stay for the whole campaign. It did start off pretty fun. One PC was the ship captain with the cargo ship and we all show up for the job offer the captain put out on the... whatever is the Trek equivalent of Monster.com So basically we all got to do introductions as a sort of "Interview" with the captain and then we're hired.

Cool! What system did you use?
I’m looking at Fate Core, just to keep things simple. Gurps is another obvious choice but I’m not familiar with the system at all (little bit intimidated honestly).

[erikun]

I'd like to give a few systems a try, namely Fate and HeroQuest. Perhaps try hacking together something with FUDGE. I just don't have the time to piece together something at the moment. Plus, any opportunities for roleplaying locally are probably focused on Pathfinder at the moment.

As for fiction works, I'd really like a game based on exploration, something like Legend of Zelda or maybe Kino's Journey. Something where the wandering around and finding stuff is more than just narration between combats, or where there is more there than skill rolls and saving throws to avoiding damage.

[DigoDragon]

In Fallout canon, the southeastern US is not a wasteland - it's a teeming mass of mutant plants due to an accident involving sevral GECKs and the bombs themselves. There may or may not be intelligent gators there.

I was thinking of the animated movie Nausicaä, and how they present the toxic forest. Lethal is most areas, but there are spots where the toxins have been leeched out of the ground by the forest and what grows in these "oasis" areas is safe and clean. Course finding them is another matter... ;) It's a nice change of scenery from the usual desert/plains kind of wasteland.

Florida should be the same - the cicadas will kill you with their high-decibel cries, there's so much racial tension you could drizzle it on the pancakes you made at DeLeon springs, and the nights under the trees are so dark and humid that you could practically cut it into a loaf of bread.

Nice to see that my state is practically unchanged post Great War.

Cool! What system did you use?
I’m looking at Fate Core, just to keep things simple. Gurps is another obvious choice but I’m not familiar with the system at all (little bit intimidated honestly).

We used GURPS 4e with the High-Tech supplement book. Although Star Trek era weapons are deadly, we were in the fringes and thus the GM scaled back what was available to us (makes sense, fringe space is sparse in "modern" comforts). Our captain used an old fashion slug thrower (flavored as rebuilt to be a low-powered Gauss handgun).

Though I think most of our actual fights were bar room brawls. :3

[Lord Torath]

I'd love to play Spelljammer. I'd run it if I felt I was up to the task.

I'd also love to play Robotech (either Macross or Third Invid War).

[hiryuu]

I was thinking of the animated movie Nausicaä, and how they present the toxic forest. Lethal is most areas, but there are spots where the toxins have been leeched out of the ground by the forest and what grows in these "oasis" areas is safe and clean. Course finding them is another matter... ;) It's a nice change of scenery from the usual desert/plains kind of wasteland.

Yes!

Nice to see that my state is practically unchanged post Great War.

What can I say? Been living here all my life - mostly on the fringes of civilization. Working on a book that documents the weird junk I've dealt with, mostly because someone from up Narth done told me that there "Southern Gothic" genre was an exagerration, and that ain't right. I know perfectly well what the shadows in the woods at night hide, and Southern Gothic ain't an exagerration - it's the wailing of our predicament.