MOB Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 The new Wild Cards website has a great article by Steve Perrin about the genesis of Superworld, the RPG that George RR Martin got so captivated by he reckons it "cost him a novel". Steve mentions at one stage GRRM was actually in negotiations with Chaosium for a campaign book (but went on to write Wild Cards instead). Another of roleplaying gaming's tantalizing "what ifs"... http://www.wildcardsworld.com/a-brief-history-of-superworld/ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexthug Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Its comforting to know someone is at least thinking about rebooting superworld. It would be cool if they could release an official wildcards rpg. That would work better than a generic superworld game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 4 hours ago, Vexthug said: Its comforting to know someone is at least thinking about rebooting superworld. It would be cool if they could release an official wildcards rpg. That would work better than a generic superworld game. +1 Actually, a "generic" superworld -- so folks can play whatever flavor of 4color they want -- with a specific "default setting" of WildCards. That'd be just about perfect, I think... 2 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trystero Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 There were licensed Wild Cards supplements for GURPS back in the late '80s and early '90s. I'm guessing the license has expired by now, though. Quote — “Self-discipline isn’t everything; look at Pol Pot.”—Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) On 1/30/2017 at 3:14 PM, trystero said: There were licensed Wild Cards supplements for GURPS back in the late '80s and early '90s. I'm guessing the license has expired by now, though. The license was later picked up by Green Ronin for their supers game Mutants and Masterminds. But I'm not certain of its current status. Green Ronin has developed the habit of taking a license and pursuing it finitely, as opposed to as ongoing projects (witness their recently-lapsed DC Comics license, which is basically a snapshot of the comics just before one of their more recent universal resets). Green Ronin also currently holds the RPG license for the Game of Thrones series (novels, not the TV series). Edited February 5, 2017 by Michael Hopcroft 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 On 1/24/2017 at 8:06 AM, Vexthug said: It would be cool if they could release an official wildcards rpg. I don't know much about Wildcards but it seems to have a following. Not that it's ever going to happen... but a supers setting I'd like to see fleshed out for Superworld is City of Heroes... though we've got a nice start on that here in the downloads. City of Heroes was generally lower-powered (no supermen or green lanterns) and many of the villains were straight out of old school pulps. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questbird Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Another quite good setting was Alan Moore's Top Ten, set in a city where *everybody* has super powers. The Top Ten were super cops with various abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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