»Where is the Matrix RPG book?«

I`m an avid roleplayer and my collection is extensive. I would love the opportunity to table top roleplay in the Matrix universe, but no such game exists. Does anyone know anything as to why this is? Such a thing would be a great opportunity to publish information on the trilogy and characters and there are already RPG's out for stargate, star trek and goodness knows what else. What gives with the Wachowskis? I would have thought they would be very pro roleplay, but this seems not to be the case.

What have you all heard? Are there any articles out there discussing this?

I did hear of one Matrix roleplay that someone had put onto a Cd that was available for sale...any leads on this?

people still play pen-and-paper RPGs? wouldnt that be incredibly boring and slow? but a 3d video game would be interesting like the upcoming Matrix Online MMORPG

I actually enjoy spendingf time with my friends. Being parked in front of a computer for that is not so good, despite the lovely graphics.

Besides, most people I meet online, especially in MMORPG's are idiots and powergamers. Better to know the people you play with.

ok thats a good point. nothing matches playing with ur friends.

but then y not have a lan party? a card-based rpg would be too predictable.

pen and paper rpgs own!

why do u think they own?

well i think they suck-
1. there are only a few possible permutations. imagine the hundreds of billions of possibilities with the Ghz level processors we have now.
2. the size of the worlds and information regarding them and the units(characters) in them is SOOOO limited in an PnP rpg. all of it has to be in a book. in a pc u can have whole gigabytes of worlds and creatures and characters.
3. only a few people can play. MMORPGs are called 'massively' for a reason. u really need more players for a truer rpg experience
4. bcuz of the above reasons the PnP is far less complex, more predictable,
and hence a lot less fun.
5. PnP is so damn slow and hence unrealistic and un-exciting

First of all dnd was invented 30 years ago...by an evil man with a beard and i can tell you that playing dnd with your friends is more fun than playing baldurs gate...

Hehe, as an EverQuest player of long standing experience, i can reliably say that online roleplay can be one of the most repetetive experiences ever and that even when you have a hundred people in an area all at once, most of them say the same thing and really are not worth talking to anyway. You can play a MMORPG and find no roleplay there for days, if not weeks.

ok i guess i'll have to take ur word for it since i've never played either an MMO or cardbased RPG. *sheepish smile* since a broadband connection is something of a premium in india.

but theorotically at least it seems to me that an MMO or LAN party offers far better entertainment than a card-based RPG.

ralph_angelus wrote:

people still play pen-and-paper RPGs? wouldnt that be incredibly boring and slow? but a 3d video game would be interesting like the upcoming Matrix Online MMORPG

There are still people who sits down and moves pixels to kill other pixels? Isn't better to got a gun and play GTA in the real life?

Now more seriously; video games are much more predictable and linear than rolegames. I play because I like to create and live stories (that's why people goes to cinemas), but rather than witness I like to take part in the story.
Of course I'm not talking of card RPGs, this is about entertaining doing a story. Of course you have to put imagination, if you don't have it, you better use artificial imagination which is worked by others. Once again, I rather create than witness.

Answering to the roleplayer guy, it seems that there are people working in an ambientation for GURPS, but as a separated RPG with original rules, don't know. I'm going to purpose to a friend adapt FUDGE or something alike. Anyway there are RPGs in Internet worked out by fans, take a look but I saw some of them and are rather incomplete.