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It's not an RPG if you can't fireball Killer Bob.
Those are great books but i dont see how any of that would make for an rpg. The Long Sun otoh would be a better fit.
Dishonored, love that setting.
Star Trek, but playing as a Klingon within the Empire. Game should be a squad-based tactical combat game where you start out with a run-down Bird of Prey and a crew of rejects and misfits. Over time you attract better mercenaries and get to do missions like raid lesser species, privateering, sabotage between rivaling Klingon Houses, and perhaps even black ops against other major powers in the Star Trek universe.
You could play Morrowind.Ancient Mesopotamian setting, possibly centered around the hero Gilgamesh.
Those are great books but i dont see how any of that would make for an rpg. The Long Sun otoh would be a better fit.
That's Shadowrun: Hong Kong more or less.I think there is an untapped potential in the Chinatown from Vampire Bloodlines, together with Hong Kong from Deus Ex. Modern setting with influences from Chinese mythology and urban legends. Main inspiration: John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China.
I'll pile on to the Black Company and Traveller bandwagons. Either game would be great fun to start out as a low-level scrub and progress from there. Battle Brothers is a relatively good stand-in for Black Co. but the game world isn't as cool as the Black Co. universe.
Also, a Rance clone based on the Flashman books.
I'll pile on to the Black Company and Traveller bandwagons. Either game would be great fun to start out as a low-level scrub and progress from there. Battle Brothers is a relatively good stand-in for Black Co. but the game world isn't as cool as the Black Co. universe.
Also, a Rance clone based on the Flashman books.
As Avellone pointed out when he was taking questions last year, it’s so easy to make a Black Company knockoff that nobody’s going to pay Glen Cook for the rights. Who needs Soulcatcher when you can make The Voices of Nerat? Why pay for The Ten Who Were Taken vs The Circle of Eighteen when Myth already ripped them off with The Fallen Lords vs The Nine?
Those are great books but i dont see how any of that would make for an rpg. The Long Sun otoh would be a better fit.
Totally agree. The Book of the New Sun is fantastic, but it relies on a number of devices that make it ill-suited for a video game.
Severian’s narration--how do you translate any of that into a game unless you’re just rehashing the story as Severian? That’s hardly the stuff of CRPGs.
But even if we cut Severian or made him a peripheral figure, The Book of the New Sun's setting would lose so much if you tried to translate it from the written word into a visual medium. Wolfe’s worldbuilding is ingenious: he uses obscure old words, often taken from Greek and Latin, to describe Urth. When Severian talks about peltasts patrolling the streets or riding his destrier into battle—without ever really detailing what those things are—it creates sense of enormous distance from the present. Wolfe goes to great lengths to make the world seem alien to us: a future so distant that it has, in many ways, come to resemble the past. But technology has made incredible advances, it’s just that Severian rarely explains this stuff in any depth because it’s mostly unremarkable to him.
The end result lends the books an almost dreamlike quality. The way Wolfe includes details, figuring out what the world looks like is almost like solving a mystery. Severian grew up in a grounded spaceship! That's a cool thing you find out based on how he describes some of the rooms; it would lose its magic in a video game where the Matachin Tower just looks like a spaceship.
Most of the stuff that makes it special would be lost, leaving you with something that's not so different from any other dying earth setting.
Black Company could be done like those Banner Saga games but with a bigger budget.I'll pile on to the Black Company and Traveller bandwagons. Either game would be great fun to start out as a low-level scrub and progress from there. Battle Brothers is a relatively good stand-in for Black Co. but the game world isn't as cool as the Black Co. universe.
Also, a Rance clone based on the Flashman books.
The one in the back has a quest to give me