RPGaDay 27: Favorite idea for merging two games into one

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First, let me just give credit to the guy who came up with the idea of merging Star Wars and Steampunk.




But for me, I think my favorite idea was to merge Mekton (giant anime robots) and Dune, a concept I floated back in my college days.  Somewhere in my long-term memory I have the concepts for giant robots for the Bene Gesserit, Houses Harkonnen and Atreides, the Sardukar, and the Freemen (who have both the small, still-suit robot frames and the giant kick-ass sandworms).

Why hasn't someone done the manga/anime version of Dune yet?  You'd think the way Herbert's kids have prostituted out their literary inheritance they would have done this already.

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  1. KonsumterraAugust 27, 2015 at 11:03 AM

    i thought years ago should remake original trilogy as steampunk

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  2. BlacksteelAugust 28, 2015 at 8:50 AM

    There's certainly some visual support for a Steampunk Star Wars out there now. If you want to get into specific games I think the Savage Worlds version of Space 1889 + Star Wars could probably lead somewhere interesting.

    As far as Dune, I am still surprised there isn't a Dune RPG. I know somebody was working on one a few years back (Last Unicorn? Decipher?) but the total absence of a Dune RPG is one of the more surprising gaps in the RPG universe.

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