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RPG YOU’D LIKE TO SEE ON TV.
It has to be Liminal, the incredible urban fantasy RPG from Dr. Paul “Tweedmeister” Mitchener, landlord of the ever popular Mitchester Arms, drop in on Friday for a beer and a chinwag.
I cannot imagine a more perfect setting for TV than the juxtaposition of the Liminal world of The Hidden and UK grim. Not least because you have so much of the inspiration for this from the artist Jason Behnke, check out his Liminal Gallery.
There are so many stories to be told, each local region has their own tales to astound, terrify and mystify. In my head I’ve already secured the cast I would just lift the main protagonists from Lockwood & Co.
Next, throw in assorted Mark Rylance (Martin Jaeger), Ibris Elba (Anton Dupont), Florence Pugh (Professor Clementine Walters), Riz Ahmed (The Winter King) - look it’s my dream, I can choose who I want - and perhaps round it all off with Gary Oldman as P-Divison superintendent Mark Lloyd or should he be Reverend Michael Gamble, from the Order of St. Bede. Big decisions.
Of course, young Dave Peters, he of Dr. Frankenstein’s RPG podcast, will be kept busy with his various podcast guests, churning out the scripts to ever-ridiculous deadlines and an escalating special FX budget… yes, this is all making so much sense, coming to a screen near you in 202…