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D&D 5E Non fantasy setting book or books for 5th edition

Which one do you want the most?

  • Modern

    Votes: 15 25.4%
  • Sci Fi

    Votes: 39 66.1%
  • Horror

    Votes: 18 30.5%
  • Super hero

    Votes: 11 18.6%

dwayne

Adventurer
What other non fantasy setting book or books would you like to see for 5th edition D&D, this is in addition to any they make for fogottenrealms, greyhawk and ect..

1 Modern, from old west to now the age of modern fire arms and through the industrial age: IE, Old est, pirates with powered weapons, steam punk, dirty dozen, modern mercenary, expendables.
2 Sci Fi, future, from low space travel with in system to dimensional travel between realities and through time: From star trek to star wars, aliens, enhanced humans, robots and AI, to to DNA splicing also post apocalyptic could be a part of this with mutations and radiation effects and a barter system.
3 Horror, could be from a modern infused slasher type gender to a Cthulhu themed sci fi setting in space: Event Horizon, Friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street, silent hill, ect...
4 Super hero, from people with small abilities to give a slight advantage to high powered costume wearing heroes and villains: Any thing from like buffy the vampire slayer, flash, agents of shield, or I am number 4, ect..
 

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dwayne

Adventurer
D&D is not a generic system, I don't think any of these genres would work well with the rules we have.

Which is why the added books to help run a game to cover any added rules and such, as far as the system its good enough and has good enough frame work to work with to add rules.
 

Which is why the added books to help run a game to cover any added rules and such, as far as the system its good enough and has good enough frame work to work with to add rules.

I understand your point of view, but to make myself completely clear: in my opinion, in order to play in any of these genres, you would have to get rid of all existing D&D rules and replace them with different rules.
 

steeldragons

Steeliest of the dragons
Epic
Sorry, not biting. No interest. The game system is "Dungeons & Dragons." It's capable of various levels on the dials of dungeons and dials of dragons: from low-magic to high-magic, gritty to heroic to deity/epic, low "goth" to high "goth", dark ages to clockwork and renaissance-level tech to steam-punkery-ish to ubiquitous magi-tech. Simply put, it's fantasy. That's what D&D does.

"D&D: Modern" is an oxymoron.

If you want horror, sci-fi, superheroes, etc... there are a plethora of amazing individual games that handle those genres and/or game systems that are designed to be used across genres (Fantastic Heroes & Witchery, for example, does great with D&D-type fantasy or sci-fi or cthulu-esque occult/paranormal stuff). D&D is just not one of those games or systems.
 
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wrenofwar

First Post
I think that Gamma World would be great and would mesh well enough with the D&D rules since it is already a pretty fantastic (though in a different sense) world. I've never played a Gamma World game, but if I did, it would be like Adventure Time which combines D&D fantasy (explicitly at times) with the post-apocolypic zaniness of Gamma World.
 


Fátima Little

First Post
Hi, my choice for a book is science fiction because I'm curious about the life in other planets. I wanted to know the reality about the story behind Mars which is said to be like Earth. Relatively, I wish to travel in space.
 

dwayne

Adventurer
Sorry, not biting. No interest. The game system is "Dungeons & Dragons." It's capable of various levels on the dials of dungeons and dials of dragons: from low-magic to high-magic, gritty to heroic to deity/epic, low "goth" to high "goth", dark ages to clockwork and renaissance-level tech to steam-punkery-ish to ubiquitous magi-tech. Simply put, it's fantasy. That's what D&D does.

"D&D: Modern" is an oxymoron.

If you want horror, sci-fi, superheroes, etc... there are a plethora of amazing individual games that handle those genres and/or game systems that are designed to be used across genres (Fantastic Heroes & Witchery, for example, does great with D&D-type fantasy or sci-fi or cthulu-esque occult/paranormal stuff). D&D is just not one of those games or systems.

Well you must live under a rock because they have done it many times with d20 modern and Cthulhu d20 old gamma world alternity, star frontiers, so you comment is invalid, move along .
 

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