Can anyone confirm or deny?

POSTED BY: SchoolboysWink
UPDATED: Thursday, September 20, 2007 07:50
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SCHOOLBOYSWINK

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:44 PM

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Originally posted by FollowMal:
You do know, don't you that there is a RPG version of a FF/S game right? ( In fact, they've announced another 3 books in the series coming out! )

Hey, FollowMal. Good to hear from you.

Yeah, I have the tabletop RPG. In fact, I saw it at a local HobbyTown when I hadn't even seen the BDM (or FF) yet. I looked at my wife, and said "I know Joss's work, and I know a little about what this world is like. Even if the movie is bad, this would still be an AWESOME backdrop for gaming." Bought it right there. Fortunately, the show blew my mind, so it turned out to be a great purchase.

I have only run the game three times, and my player characters are reasonably-transparent rippoffs of FF/BDM characters, but they are character types the players wanted to explore, so I think everybody is having fun. In particular, my wife is challenging her gaming limits with her "Leaky brainpan" River-esque character, and though I don't have my players swearing in Chinese yet, everybody tries hard to get into the spirit of things.

(I even toyed with the idea of trying to reserve the chat room here on FFF for a regular time-slot and run a game here in chat, in case there were Browncoats that would be interested but didn't have gamer friends in their areas. I was worried that even if it hadn't already been done, though, there very likely wouldn't be enough interest, though, and that if there was there would probably be way too much, so I canned the notion.)

What IS news to me, though, is that there are supplements coming out for the game. To that let me just say: SHINY!

"When you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right!" -Jayne Cobb quotes Shepherd Book

MRBEN

Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:50 AM

Just a couple more points here from my POV:

1. The Multiverse thing isn't like a normal game development - they're not going to make the game themselves, but rather subcontract it to another company to make it using their engine.

2. Surely it would be a phenomenal waste of time/money to procure the rights and then not use them? I can't imagine Fox gives them away for free....?

I'm not saying you're wrong - it may still be vaporware - I'm just not sure they've done enough (or not done enough) to warrant the accusation just yet.

Someone asked a similar question at DragonCon to the crew of The Signal - hopefully they'll be able to get a follow-up interview.

mrben

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