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Hello there.

I was browsing the forums when a thought hit me. Other than Warhammer 40,000 (among other GW titles), what Sci-Fi or Fantasy miniature wargaming franchises would you like to see get adapted to a medium other than that of the tabletop variety? It can be anything from books and video games (a path that GW is no stranger to in this day and age) to more unexpected mediums like film and television. Or for more variety, what sci-fi or fantasy franchises would you like to see get adapted into miniature wargames? Two prominent wargame adaptations I can think of is Fantasy Flight Games's Star Wars titles and Spartan Games's Halo titles.

Anyways, thanks for your time and I hope you have a great day!

Quick answer to the final question so it won't bog down the thread: all of them.

As for which tabletop games I would like to see expand into books or other media: all of them.

A surprising number of games already have tie in novels. Most of those are enjoyable on some level or another.

I find that if I enjoy the game (i.e. the setting) the tie in novels are usually enjoyable even if the they aren't great. They're no brainers for game makers and IP holders.

What I'd like to see though is some serious tv/movie stuff. It doesn't have to be the best. I'll watch it anyway so long as they at least make it fun, which really shouldn't be that hard *glares at Games Workshop and wonders how they manage to feth it up* But of course, we know that it is hard because they keep fething it up *glares at Games Workshop harder*

Personally, I'd like to see some Battletech content on the screen, we need more mecha damnit. I've really fallen in love with the lore of Legend of the Five Rings too and think it could make a really nice pseudo-anime series/movie. Call of Cthulu, and other Lovecraftian stuff, has been making quite a few inroads of late with lots of video game adaptations that seem to be spawned from the tabletop game.

Im struggling to think of franchises that havent been ported to some other medium - books especially are an easy translate for tabletop games.

 LordofHats wrote:
I find that if I enjoy the game (i.e. the setting) the tie in novels are usually enjoyable even if the they aren't great. They're no brainers for game makers and IP holders.

What I'd like to see though is some serious tv/movie stuff. It doesn't have to be the best. I'll watch it anyway so long as they at least make it fun, which really shouldn't be that hard *glares at Games Workshop and wonders how they manage to feth it up* But of course, we know that it is hard because they keep fething it up *glares at Games Workshop harder*

Personally, I'd like to see some Battletech content on the screen, we need more mecha damnit. I've really fallen in love with the lore of Legend of the Five Rings too and think it could make a really nice pseudo-anime series/movie. Call of Cthulu, and other Lovecraftian stuff, has been making quite a few inroads of late with lots of video game adaptations that seem to be spawned from the tabletop game.

There’s at least 1 Legend of 5 rings comic from before ffg bought it and it is pretty good, I think it might still be available on DriveThruRPG.

I enjoy consuming other works of fiction in settings that I game in, but I don't enjoy them just because they're in that setting. I don't read everything from Black Library because a lot of it's gak. I also don't really understand the idea that the faction I collect miniatures for should determine which books I should read.

One thing I forgot to mention in the OP is that BattleTech is another example of a wargaming franchise besides 40k that has made the jump to the video games and book(?) market. So with that out of the way, here's a list of Tabletop Wargaming IPs that I'd like to see get video games, books or television spinoffs:

1. Infinity by Corvus Belli

2. Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles by Dream Pod 9

3. Twilight Imperium by Fantasy Flight Games

4. Crimson Skies by FASA/Catalyst Game Labs

5. Warpath by Mantic Games

6. Warmachine, Hordes and Mosterpocalypse by Privateer Press (or have PP take a page from GW and have them create their own sci-fi setting similar in scale to their Warmahordes line. Unless MonPoc already serves the role of PP's flagship Sci-Fi Wargame, that is.)

7. AT-43 from Rackham

8. Dystopian Wars and Firestorm Armada from Spartan Games/Warcradle Studios

Here are a few honorable mentions:

1. Team Yankee from Battlefront Miniatures

2. Full Thrust from Ground Zero Games

 K9ofChaos wrote:
4. Crimson Skies by FASA/Catalyst Game Labs

There are Crimson Skies books, but I've no idea if they're any good.

 K9ofChaos wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention in the OP is that BattleTech is another example of a wargaming franchise besides 40k that has made the jump to the video games and book(?) market. So with that out of the way, here's a list of Tabletop Wargaming IPs that I'd like to see get video games, books or television spinoffs:

1. Infinity by Corvus Belli

2. Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles by Dream Pod 9

3. Twilight Imperium by Fantasy Flight Games

4. Crimson Skies by FASA/Catalyst Game Labs

5. Warpath by Mantic Games

6. Warmachine, Hordes and Mosterpocalypse by Privateer Press (or have PP take a page from GW and have them create their own sci-fi setting similar in scale to their Warmahordes line. Unless MonPoc already serves the role of PP's flagship Sci-Fi Wargame, that is.)

7. AT-43 from Rackham

8. Dystopian Wars and Firestorm Armada from Spartan Games/Warcradle Studios

Here are a few honorable mentions:

1. Team Yankee from Battlefront Miniatures

2. Full Thrust from Ground Zero Games

Warmachine and Warpath already have tie in novels. So does Crimson Skies. I'd love to see Infinity and AT-43 novels. I'm not sure Twilight Imperium wasn't already a knock off of an existing book or trope; Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis seems very similar in setting from what I can tell. And didn't Tom Clancy and his contemporaries cover Team Yankee?

This is one for Togusa's "A fun story that made me die a little inside. " thread.

Team Yankee already is a book published in 1987. Battlefront were pretty open about that at the start; now with the game covering the late 1980s in general rather than the period and units specifically covered in the novel that's not as obvious now.

In addition to a pretty extensive series of novels and video games Battletech also had a (pretty crap if I'm honest) cartoon show too, it only ran for a single season so that should give some idea of how successful it was.

Team Yankee is also already a comic.

I have the graphic novel of it.