Tell us about the one great RPG that you would improve, $$$ + Pool of Great Talent + Your Guidance = Glory! Options

[Wesley Street]

Congratulations! Gary Gygax has mysteriously left you a large lump sum of cash in his will with the stipulation that you use it to "continue great games and bring glory to pen and paper role-playing experiences." What one existing property would you snatch up in a hostile takeover and why? What would you do with it?

Here's mine:

2300AD - This is the only hard science-fiction game I've ever seen and is the first RPG I actually bought with my own hard-earned dog-sitting money at age 12. You could literally role-play anything from a farmer on a frontier world to a corporate troubleshooter to a Swiss Space Marine. What would I do differently? First, I would sever all ties to Twilight 2000 and re-write the timeline. To avoid dating the game there would be no mention of human society prior to, say, 2050, in any published material. I would update all the technology to reflect current trends in communication, engineering and sociology and then kick it forward 300 years. I would hire a group of futurists to help design starships, weapons and tech without ripping off existing sci-fi films or video-games. I would create a semi-utopian Earth that was crazy and imaginative but at peace with itself and that was in direct contrast with far-flung colonies suffering from Kafer attack, homeworld corporate machinations, and internal disputes. Think Cherryh's Downbelow Station and the "Merchanter" books. In terms of game play itself, I would keep the crazy amount of character generation but make the actual dice-rolling and number crunching much simpler. All core rule books would come with a digital table top program on a CD-ROM or a Flash drive but they wouldn't be required if you didn't have access to a laptop... or were a Luddite. There would also be a boxed set Star Cruiser tactical game that uses plastic pieces instead of cardboard chits, a fat book of space battles to recreate as well as rules on creating your own. The core system would be a boxed set with nice hard-backed rules books and a fold-out star map.

How about you?