Until this morning.
Now that pay day has come and gone and bills are paid, tuition for my daughter’s school sent church tithes paid and food purchased, I turned my eyes to my wishlist. To find no “Highlander: The New Era”. I was somewhat bummed but figured the mistake had been on my part so I did a general search on RPGnow and Drivethru and found nothing. A Google Search revealed this:
and when clicked:
This makes me wonder what happened. The first thing that shoots to mind is that Studio 7a UK did not have the rights to or permission of the creators/license holders and either they or Onebookself received a cease & desist notice from the creators/license holders.
This in some ways makes me sad. Highlander (The Series more than the movies) was of profound effect on me in earlier teens and up through my mid-twenties. Highlander is why I love Queen, why I got into sword fighting and why I almost spent a night in jail during high school (Someone called in a bomb threat, I liked wearing trench coats because of Highlander and Columbine had just happened.). Six years ago I was bouncing off the walls to the idea of a Highlander video game (now cancelled) and I’ve watched the anime movie nearly as much as the original trilogy (1 and Final Dimension are good). I have the TCG, yes there was a TCG, that no one frigging played and was really complicated!
In the end I’m left to wonder would Highlander work as a Tabletop RPG? Wouldn’t the various teammates eventually try to take each other’s heads? Or do the players play as a gorup of Watchers? If the later is the case, than honestly a new system isn’t needed, just nWoD mortals.
Now I’m babbling so I shall stop!
