Your Favorite Crossovers - Tabletop RPG edition
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 3:52 am
So yeah, crossover junkie Ares decided to throw this in here as well.
I'd actually decided against this initially, since to my knowledge RPG crossovers are about the only thing more rare than cartoon crossovers. Now, crossovers within a single company aren't unheard of. Dungeons and Dragons had long used Spelljammer, Planescape and Ravenloft to allow for crossovers between their various worlds. White Wolf had arranged things so that their various World of Darkness source books existed in the same world for crossover purposes. But you rarely saw anything where two distinct properties crossed over. Even when Green Ronin had the DC Comics license, we never saw a "DC Universe vs M&M Earth Prime" type crossover.
The only time I'd ever heard about two RPG companies collaborating on a crossover book was Reality Storm, where the Champions of Hero Games met with the heroes of the Silver Age Sentinels setting of Guardians of Order. The cover of the book even has the classic "heroes opposing each other" comics cover style to it. It's actually very fun and really feels like a JLAvengers style crossover.
Recently tho, I found out that British RPG company Modiphius Entertainment had teamed up with Arc Dream Publishing to do a crossover of the former's Achtung! Cthulhu setting and the latter's Godlike setting. Since both games are more of a 'pulp adventure in WWII' style book, the two settings actually mesh pretty well together. Modiphius also has done a crossover of Achtung! Cthulhu and Paolo Parente’s DUST setting, throwing in WEIRD SCIENCE into the mix. So technically, you could do a WWII Cthulhu/Godlike/Dust crossover with zero problems. Throw in the option of being a masked mystery man and it sounds like a fun setting.
Any other unique setting mashups like this that you guys are aware of? It's always kind of cool to find out stuff like this. And feel free to talk about settings like TORG, Feng Shui or Rifts that focused on Genre Crossovers if not setting crossovers.
I'd actually decided against this initially, since to my knowledge RPG crossovers are about the only thing more rare than cartoon crossovers. Now, crossovers within a single company aren't unheard of. Dungeons and Dragons had long used Spelljammer, Planescape and Ravenloft to allow for crossovers between their various worlds. White Wolf had arranged things so that their various World of Darkness source books existed in the same world for crossover purposes. But you rarely saw anything where two distinct properties crossed over. Even when Green Ronin had the DC Comics license, we never saw a "DC Universe vs M&M Earth Prime" type crossover.
The only time I'd ever heard about two RPG companies collaborating on a crossover book was Reality Storm, where the Champions of Hero Games met with the heroes of the Silver Age Sentinels setting of Guardians of Order. The cover of the book even has the classic "heroes opposing each other" comics cover style to it. It's actually very fun and really feels like a JLAvengers style crossover.
Recently tho, I found out that British RPG company Modiphius Entertainment had teamed up with Arc Dream Publishing to do a crossover of the former's Achtung! Cthulhu setting and the latter's Godlike setting. Since both games are more of a 'pulp adventure in WWII' style book, the two settings actually mesh pretty well together. Modiphius also has done a crossover of Achtung! Cthulhu and Paolo Parente’s DUST setting, throwing in WEIRD SCIENCE into the mix. So technically, you could do a WWII Cthulhu/Godlike/Dust crossover with zero problems. Throw in the option of being a masked mystery man and it sounds like a fun setting.
Any other unique setting mashups like this that you guys are aware of? It's always kind of cool to find out stuff like this. And feel free to talk about settings like TORG, Feng Shui or Rifts that focused on Genre Crossovers if not setting crossovers.