What the game World needs Now-An Opnion

Up on a Dice Box. An editorial/Opinion

I apologize to any one who is thinking of Publishing any RPG product this year but I do not believe the Market needs any more Offerings for Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons at this time.
Not only do an average of 200-300 Titles come out a Year world wide for D20, there are literally dozens of titles dating back to 3.5 OGL that are just gathering dust on the Shelf’s of your Local game Shop that could easily be used as Inspiration for a game of D20 Role Playing.

No I believe for something to make a Dent in the market right now, it has to be something DIFRENT.

It has to be this generations GURPS, this generations WORLD OF DARKNES, this Generations CYBERPUNK.

When GURPS came out the market place was an endless dessert of D20 Product, then along comes this simple Little GENERIC System and it changed everything. Within days everyone was playing GURPS and Loving the seamless Open Way it could be used to duplicate any type of Role Playing environment from Fantasy to Super Heroes. By the end of the Year there were Dozens of Generic system coming out and to this day the aftermath of GURPS can be felt with such game lines as FATE and SAVAGE WORLDS.

My love/hate relationship with GURPS is a well known story, but I can not argue the effect this game had on the market. Because it was something new and different!

I am a huge fan of the Short lived Cyberpunk genera from the Mid 80's. I wanted my future to be the dirty working Future of BLADE RUNNER and this genera was a perfect place to live out my Role Playing for a while.
R. Talsorin Games CYBERPUNK 2020 and its many fellow Cyberpunk games Were hugely popular and spun off many strange sub genres. Splatter Punk, Arcane Punk, Steam Punk, Diesel punk, Weird West, ETC.

Much like it's motto, Cyberpunk burnt out but for a while it was King of the Hill because it was new, different, exciting.

WORLD OF DARKNESS and its Main product line VAMPIRE THE MASQURADE is another example of a game that took the Idea of Elf’s and Dragons and tossed them out and embraced the rising popularity of Vampire Chic! Thanks to Ann Rice and her Lastat, Vampires were cool and this led to the sudden popularity of this Game System and pretty much birthed the LARP movement.

Remember the short lived TV show “Kindred,the Embrace” Would we have Sokki or Rachel or even Buffy if not for this game?

What the game World of 2014 needs is not more D20 OGL Product. Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons 5^th are fine, if you want to be successful in the game market today you need to change the Game. Alter the Paradigm, be aware of the hunger out there for something new and embrace it.

I don't know what it will be, but I know the market is ready!

So grab your Imagination, plug in to the net, create something amazing but most of all...Be Excellent!