D&D General Dungeons & Dragons Gets a My Little Pony Crossover

In Demand Toys, a store in Norwich, Norfolk, posted a photo to its Facebook group over the weekend showing a Dungeons & Dragons themed My Little Pony set.

It's part of a line called the "Cutie Marks" which also has versions for other Hasbro brands (Transformers, Power Rangers, etc).

The box contains five pony models, each of which is based on a D&D class (the druid also has a "blink bunny" familiar). There's also a custom d20 and a DM screen. The five classes are barbarian, bard, druid, rogue; plus either a wizard or a cleric.

Of course, there's already a My Little Pony RPG, and there have been other unofficial crossovers like Ponyfinder for Pathfinder.

No release date has been posted, but the store said they would be available for pre-order soon.

 

[EthanSental]

Smart to keep cross branding to hit as many potential customers that aren’t or might not be playing D&D.

 

[Stormonu]

50 years old, and I can't believe I'll be buying this.

Also, worth mentioning Wizkids (who does minis for D&D and Pathfinder) has some MLP miniatures of the mane 6. There are also Transformer minis, in robot mode (I'm planning to pick up a "skywarp").

Now, we just need some GI Joe minis and I'll be all set.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Of course, there's already a My Little Pony RPG from Ninja Division

Um, the Tails of Equestria officially licensed RPG from River Horse in the UK?

The Ninja Division website doesn't show anything related to MLP when I looked just now.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Um, the Tails of Equestria officially licensed RPG from River Horse in the UK?

The Ninja Division website doesn't show anything related to MLP when I looked just now.

Yeah Tails of Equestria is the one, it is here;

My Little Pony: Tails of Equestria – River Horse

riverhorse.eu

If you have kids and want to play an RPG that doesn't include violence, this is actually a good pick. Seems to have a fair selection of adventures driven entirely around mysteries and exploration. And the starter set literally involves going into a dragon's lair, so it is D&D adjacent.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I've been running Tails of Equestria for my 7 year old for a while (she got the corebook and the Curse of the Statuettes boxed set, which includes an adventure, dice and a screen for Christmas). The third adventure in the linked trilogy of adventures that starts in the core book is an homage to D&D, complete with flumphs, mimics and an evil spider queen ruling from a city deep under Equestria.

I'm not convinced it scales terribly well after a few levels, but it's a solid RPG with some fun ideas -- like Kids on Bikes, it uses different size die instead of stats to demonstrate characters' abilities.

My daughter is already looking to jump into D&D, so we aren't likely to get a lot more Tails of Equestria stuff, but what we have has been mostly enjoyable.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not sure that's who these, or MLP itself is really directed at anymore, but maybe.

Hasbro still has a lot of MLP clothing licenses out there for little kids, like my daughter.

Bronycon held their last convention last year and called it a day, after years of declining attendance. Their final attendance numbers would comfortably fit inside the largest single room at Comic-Con, for comparison's sake.

I'm sure we'll see MLP stuff at other conventions, like we do for other fandoms, but I think the fandom is now mostly with the kids again, especially as the TV show ended last October.

 

[Alzrius]

As a fan of both properties, I'm quite happy about this. Money is tighter than it's been for a while, but hopefully I'll be able to pick them up.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm guessing the screen won't be as robust as the deluxe D&D screen, but I'm thinking about splitting this set with my daughter for our home games.

 

[Alzrius]

And the starter set literally involves going into a dragon's lair, so it is D&D adjacent.

The Starter Set is the starteriest startest set that I've ever seen for an RPG. The enclosed adventure is essentially a read-aloud choose-your-own-adventure with a few instances where your characters (which are pregens with their own character sheets) roll some dice. As a note, the pregen characters are supposed to be level 0, but have level 1 statistics.

 

[ugavine]

My wife is going to love these.