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Capcom Tabletop RPGs Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the kylie-minogue-roleplaying-encouraged dept.

Thanks to Ogre Cave for the news that tabletop RPGs are planned for some classic Capcom fighting game franchises, including Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Final Fight, and Rival Schools. Living Room Games has licensed the titles, with "...the first two releases planned for the new line... scheduled to coincide with Street Fighter's 15th anniversary in North America", and the Ogre Cave article adds: "If Living Room Games' energetic support of Earthdawn is any indication, CAPCOM's properties are in good hands, and are sure to fare better than the White Wolf Street Fighter attempt of the early '90s."

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  1. what about taking this online.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    problem: you need friends to play it with.
    solution: online computer version of the tabletop game.

    That would be a videogame of a board game of a videogame...

    It would be fairly easy to implement this as a turn-based game in the style of Pokemon...

  2. Re:Sorry, I'm only a level 5. by bain · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's like tabletop warfare, but you have RPG elements. Think something along the lines of Fantasy Warhammer, it had RPG but the characters were represented in the world and battles on a tabletop, I'm hoping they might be adding games workshop like fighting systems intot the tabletop aspect.

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  3. Re:Sorry, I'm only a level 5. by MadMoses · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can imagine tabletop RPGs like this: a bunch of friends getting together to tell stories. Every player creates one character, a protagonist in the story being told. One of the players will be the GM (game master or game moderator), who has a job not unlike a director of a movie - he guides the player characters through their adventures, tells them what happens around them, describes the scenery, comes up with exciting situations, non-player characters and creatures and plays all other persons that the player characters meet. Everything is happening in the players minds and through storytelling.

    A good explanation can be found here:
    http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Role-Playing/RPG. html

    The computer RPGs you are probably used to are based on those tabletop or "pen&paper" (because you write down your characters stats etc.) RPGs.

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