What RPG Would You Turn into a TV Show?

Once a week we go behind the bar at Apathy Games and discuss gaming in more personal terms and ask you to respond. The best response will be featured the following week.

Bold and daring adventures every week are the heart of Roleplaying. They’re also the heart of Television. As such, it would seem a natural fit that an interesting roleplaying game would make a great show.

If I had the excess pocket change to realize my favorite setting, it would be Shadowrun. Truth be told, we really haven’t had a good Cyberpunk show as it is, let alone one with Trolls and Mages. But the plots are there. The characters are there. And there is a rich twenty-year history for them to draw off of.

I want to see street magic. I want to see the Halloweeners biker gang and the election of the Great Dragon Dunklezahn to president. And I want to see all the cool toys.

It would have to be an HBO show, though. It’s not exactly family friendly.  It’s full of dark themes, violence, racism, and criminal behavior.  Like the Sopranos with roto-drones.

Now Your Turn: What RPG Would You Turn into a TV Show?

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  • http://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/ Wrathofzombie

    First I’m gonna cheat here for a moment.. I would LOVE it if they put Firefly/Serenity back on the air.. It was such a great show that really felt like it was an RPG made to TV..

    I wouldn’t say no to a Shadowrun series either. I also wouldn’t say no (although I would worry about it being hoaky) to a Pathfinder game set in Golarion.

  • _D_

    I’d want to see Deadlands on TV. A western…with twists!

  • http://twitter.com/entonfire Andrew Linstrom

    Shadowrun came to mind immediately when I saw the post title on Twitter, even before reading the article. It’s rich and has the advantage of being set in a version of the real world.

    I want to see an Iron Kingdoms animated series, done up with the strong lines and flat blacks of Mike Mignola’s style.

  • http://www.ApathyGames.com Jeff Carlsen

    It’s like you read my brain with a twelve megawatt oscillating psycho-receiver.

  • Przybyla9

    Mike Mignola is one of my favorite comic artists of all time. I have some old Fafrd and the Grey Mouser stuff he drew, which is awesome.

  • Hillary Crenshaw

    I fully endorse this, let’s try it at once.

  • 77IM

    Two I’d like to see…

    1) Mutant City Blues: Police procedural in a world where 1% of the populace has spontaneously developed mutant super-powers. It would be like CSI meets Heroes. It seems like such a no-brainer I’d be surprised if an idea like this hadn’t already been pitched to some studio execs.

    2) Fading Suns: Dark epic space-fantasy that’s really hard to describe without making it sound corny. But done right it would make these “Dune” and “Clone Wars” TV shows look positively tame. It will probably never happen due to the budget required, although maybe some excellent writers and a decent animation studio would work…