D&D (2024) What Licensed IP Do You Want For 5E?

[LuisCarlos17f]

To can adapt some franchises WotC had to playtest special game mechanics like the incarnum soulmelds, the shadow mysteries (3.5 Tome of Magic) and the (ki?) martial maneuvers (3.5 Tome of Battle: book of the nine Swords).

The franchise of Harry Potter is popular because the books told a good story and this needs a lot of work and time. If it was easy other writters and publishers had created their own IP of wizardy achademy after Harry Potter.

I had suggested Final Fantasy but now it has its own TTRPG.

* A D&D setting with a mash-up of Nintendo IPs?

Other idea is a mash-up setting based in Disney characters.

* Ravenloft could be perfect for "collabs" with lots of horror franchises, something like the "guests" in "Dead by Daylight" videogame.

* I don't like the worldbuilding of most of isekai and fantasy videogames with a low number of humanoid species

 

[Aldarc]

Of that list, I think The Incredibles, Warcraft, Diablo, James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters and the Chronicles of Narnia have the most appeal to me personally.

Warcraft, Diablo and Narnia would be relatively easy to do, as they all exist in a D&D style set-up to begin with, and would just need bespoke player-facing content to work.

IMHO, there are also pre-existing games out there that can probably do some or most of these IPs better than 5e D&D.

 

[Reynard]

IMHO, there are also pre-existing games out there that can probably do some or most of these IPs better than 5e D&D.

Again, the point is that WotC has said that D&D is going to emulate the MtG trend of bringing other IP into the game for isolated events and/or products. So the question is given that, what do you want them to do? In what form?

 

[Corinnguard]

Honestly, I don't want any books, movies, television series, or comcs that I like to be done by this design team using 5e. I would prefer they be done using one of a few other systems

What about a 5e adjacent RPG like Tales of the Valiant or Level Up? Same 5e feel, but better.

I would like to see another 5e version of Star Wars too, but I don't want WotC anywhere near it.

Any particular era within the Star Wars universe for 5e?

As for the OP's original question, I would like to see a 5e version of some anime series. Naruto, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Solo Leveling. The last one placing more focus on the world in that Urban Fantasy anime.

 

[Aldarc]

Again, the point is that WotC has said that D&D is going to emulate the MtG trend of bringing other IP into the game for isolated events and/or products. So the question is given that, what do you want them to do? In what form?

Regardless of whether they are inevitably coming or not, I don't want licensed IPs for 5e D&D. That is my answer to your question. If you are asking what licensed IPs I could see WotC use for potential cash grabs, then that's another matter entirely.

I would like to see:

• Earthsea

Ursula K. LeGuin is rolling in her grave now.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

The default gameplay assumption for 5e D&D is so tonally similar to superheroic fantasy that a marvel or DC licensed game just seems simple.

 

[Reynard]

The default gameplay assumption for 5e D&D is so tonally similar to superheroic fantasy that a marvel or DC licensed game just seems simple.

Except that comic book superpowers almost always use a fundamentally different paradigm than "resource management."

 

[Corinnguard]

Superpowers are more or less the equivalent of cantrips. A super can use their powers as many times they want. No short/long rests required.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

IMHO, there are also pre-existing games out there that can probably do some or most of these IPs better than 5e D&D.

For sure. I would prefer bespoke systems myself. But if WotC is going to go the Universes Beyond approach with D&D, these seemed like the ones that would be worth doing from their standpoint that I would be at least somewhat interested in.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ursula K. LeGuin is rolling in her grave now.

She's probably already doing so, given gestures at the planet right now