MasterBook

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we drag out West End Games’ weird universal system, MasterBook, and its bizarre licenses. Why would you refurbish the shuttered RPG Torg into your universal game when the D6 system was right there? Why would you think the movie Species was ripe for RPG adaptation? Or Tales from the Crypt? Mysteries abound.
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[@derekbranim2416]

WEG made a DC comics game in the late 90's using the d6 system. It was really cool and so much easier to play than the two previous DC games.

[@DrTedNelson]

I started reading the Necroscope books around 1993 or so and remember seeing the RPG in a local bookstore for about 4 months before it disappeared. I flipped through it once and was surprised because the series is basically built around psychic spies fighting super-powered vampiric beings (the Wamphyri) but the RPG straight up says "uh don't use these guys - the main antagonists in the books - in your game, they'll wreck you." Without them it's basically a spy novel with psychic people, which is kind of disappointing.