WotC D&D Universes Beyond

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

WotC appears to be at least considering creating a Universes Beyond-style line of D&D products.

If, like me, you don't play Magic: the Gathering, Universes Beyond is a line of branded sets that take MTG mechanics and produce Spider-Man, Final Fantasy, Ghostbusters and other card games.

Although Hasbro has previously licensed out a number of their IP to Renegade Game Studios to produce Transformers, GI Joe and My Little Pony RPGs, it sounds like, going forward, the goal will be to do this kind of thing in-house, presumably with Hasbro IP, but maybe others as well. (After all, Final Fantasy doesn't belong to Hasbro.)

So, what products do you expect D&D's Universes Beyond line to tackle? Which ones do you hope it will? Do you want Monopoly to be an urban D&D setting? A Clue-branded mystery adventure? Do your players continually ask to meet Peppa Pig?

 

[bedir than]

Of Hasbro properties I like Clue for this

Of non-Hasbro (because UB has included many more non-Hasbro than it has Hasbro) I want Dragaera, The Hunger and The Dusk, Shadow and Bone, and Legends & Lattes

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Of Hasbro properties I like Clue for this

Of non-Hasbro (because UB has included many more non-Hasbro than it has Hasbro) I want Dragaera, The Hunger and The Dusk, Shadow and Bone, and Legends & Lattes

If I were the Legends & Latte author (who is a former big-time videogame developer, as I recall), I would have Kickstarted a sourcebook yesterday.

 

[bedir than]

If I were the Legends & Latte author (who is a former big-time videogame developer, as I recall), I would have Kickstarted a sourcebook yesterday.

Travis is also very local to WotC (like from the same part of the metro area).

 

[Stormonu]

Didn't they already do a D&D clue back in 3E with the iconics? And as good as Renegade's games are, I am surprised that Hasbro didn't do the RPGs for Transformers, GI Joe and MLP in-house and by someone on the D&D crew in the first place.

As for Universes Beyond, give me a D&D Axis and Allies please, using Dragonlance's War of the Lance.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Addams Family
The Monkees
Land of the Lost
Syd and Marty Kroft world
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
The signing of the Magna Carta

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Didn't they already do a D&D clue back in 3E with the iconics

They did one in the 5e era, set in Baldur’s Gate, with Minsc & co.

But that is D&D in Clue, not Clue in D&D.

 

[Jim Cummins]

Thundaar the barbarian lots of room for creative Saturday morning cartoon options
the Dresden files - Jim Butcher a modern wizard with cops, robbers, fae queens and evil angels
Amber series - Rodger Zelazny a universe of options in the war between order and chaos across the shadows
Spellstone of Shaltus - Linda E bushyager cool options with power stones and psionics and a species of humans tied to nature
The Disc World - Terry Prachet, just pure fun
Maybe something Manga, I'm not really a fan, but it could draw in a whole new player base

 

[Stormonu]

There was a Game of Thrones article in Dragon, with a map of one of the keeps back in the day. It would be nice to see them do a full-blown D&D campaign world tied to Game of Thrones now, especially if they went the One Ring/Middle Earth route and were willing to modify the base game to fit GoT more closely.

 

[Charlaquin]

Ugh. More blended-up pop culture slop? This decade sucks.