The Harry Potter game news has me thinking that I'd much rather have a game based on this series. There would be so many more options if done properly IMO
The_Creep_2020 posted...
I would adore an RPG set in the Dresden Files world
DarthAragorn posted...
It'd be like throwing Harry Potter, Supernatural and The Witcher 3 into a blender. Dream game right there.
I'm a little torn on how I'd want it done though, it'd have to be noncanon if you want player choice, especially if there's different factions you can ally with which I think would need to be a thing to reach full potential. White or Black Council, Denarians, Summer or Winter, maybe vampires.... But if it's noncanon you might as well not play as Harry at all in which case do you set it somewhere else in the world and not acknowledge his existence, or have him (and the other established characters) be an ally or enemy depending on choices? All the most fun uses of magic, gameplay wise, would be pretty at odds with the White Council and therefore Harry, so.... Yeah I don't know.
The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game is written as an in-universe artifact: a draft of tabletop role-playing game written by Billy Borden in order to explain to both his werewolf pack and to mortals how the supernatural world works. He hopes that in-universe it will allow him to reveal the weaknesses of supernatural creatures, making the rest of the supernatural world as vulnerable as the publication of Dracula made "Black Court" Vampires.
Because it is supposedly a draft copy of the game, the book is covered in annotations by Harry Dresden, Bob the talking skull, and Billy Borden and these take the form of highlights, notes in the margin, and post-it notes attached to the pages both as explanations of the rules and as snark between the characters. It is also split into two separate books; "Your Story" containing the rules and setting notes, and "Our World" containing a list of the movers and shakers in the Dresden Files universe as well as statistics for most supernatural creature types in the Dresden Files universe along the lines of a monster manual in Dungeons & Dragons.
