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TraverseTravis 06-28-07, 03:59 PM

This d20 RPG would develop the Kingdom Hearts cosmology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_of_Kingdom_Hearts), where the various cartoon and live-action worlds of Disney, and the worlds of Final Fantasy meet. The RPG would include all of the continuity of the Kingdom Hearts video game series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_%28series%29), along with their manga and novels series. Conceivably, every Disney-owned cartoon and live-action Intellectual Property, regardless of its medium, would have a place somewhere in the cosmology of Kingdom Hearts...except perhaps later-acquired IPs not traditionally associated with the Walt Disney Company (such as The Muppets and Power Rangers...though conceivably these could fit into the cosmology as well, just as Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Woods is included in Kingdom Hearts even though Disney is only a Pooh licensee). Likewise, each of the various worlds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Final_Fantasy_titles) of the Square Epix's Final Fantasy series (and related manga, novels, and radio shows) would be connected to the Kingdom Hearts cosmology. The title of the RPG would use the plural "Worlds" instead of the television show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_World_of_Disney) title "Wonderful World of Disney", for three reasons: 1) Each Disney setting in the Kingdom Hearts video game is its own world. 2) There is a precedent in the 1965 "The Wonderful Worlds of Walt Disney" book (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220113676887&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX&refitem=190124181840&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget#ebayphotohostin g). 3) The plural title includes the Final Fantasy worlds too. Following the core book, there'd be sourcebooks released for each major Disney and Final Fantasy world, with RPG stats for iconic characters, monsters, equipment, and artifacts, along with one or more adventures for players to use either the iconic characters or their own Disney-style or Final Fantasy-style character. It is conceivable, that, in addition to the tiny realms visited in the Kingdom Hearts games, there is a unified "Disney Earth" that is a live-action world with a cartoon "doppelganger realm". On Disney Earth, men and cartoons can pass back and forth between the two realms, and even interact side-by-side, such as when Donald Duck's uncle, Ludwig von Drake visits with Walt Disney (photo here (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Walt_Disney_Presents_title_image.jpg)). Even the Disney theme parks would conceivably exist in Disney Earth, so the parks themselves would be part of the cosmology. The Mickey Mouse Club would physically exist somewhere on the face of Disney Earth. Lastly, WotC would have the RPG translated the into Japanese and would market it heavily in Japan, in hopes of re-ignited Japanese interest in tabletop RPGs that waned after D&D's early 1980s peak. Travis