GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony RPGs Also Confirmed For 2021

Undrave said:

Do you know who is a member of GI Joe? Sgt Slaughter, the real life 80's wrestler.

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Oh yeah, he did live-action host segments for the cartoon at one point too.

They did several releases of a Sgt. Slaughter action figure back in the 80's.

He wasn't the only real-world individual to get a GI Joe figure release either.

They did William "The Refrigerator" Perry as a member of GI Joe too, as a mail-in premium figure in 1986. I guess they had him enlist in the Army Reserves in the off-season from the NFL, and made him an E-5 Sergeant, posted to GI Joe as a physical fitness instructor.

* My first contact with Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) was precisely the dragon magazine when it was published to Spanish.

* And you can bet if this works Hasbro will want to publish RPGs of more franchises. Why other companies would licence their IPs for TTRPGs? To promote these, more advertising. Hasbro has seen the TTRPGs could be the way to make money with franchises for children but for teenages and young adults who don't buy toys or watch cartoons any more.

* I remember Sergeant Slaughter in Pressing Catch (and G.I.Joe cartoons). For the first Irak war Sgt. played the role of pro-Sadam evil guy for a time, and later he became pro-american again. (pure theatre, roleplaying for the masses).

* I love the idea of the crossovers but with the d20 system the power balance is broken too fast. Fighters from Mortal Kombat couldn't defeat doom marine slayer's infernal enemies, (at least not with only their own fists and any melee weapon). G.I.Joe couldn't defeat easily Overwatch squads and this couldn't survive an attack by Starcraft factions. The characters of Street Fighters couldn't face without their own firearms against shooters and gunfighters as the ones from Bleeding Edge. The fighters from Mortal Kombat can survive (hurt but no killed by one-shot) gunslingers as Erron Black, Terminator, Robocop and comingsoon Rambo. In the tabletop board this is not so easy.

* A crossover Fortnite: Save the World-Sunset Overdrive?

Oh and I forgot...

Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright was a thing as well! and I added the Yakuza franchise to the list from X Zone.

Tonguez said:

would they not work better as Races? Iirc Pretenders are robot doplegangers arent they? Combiners will be any interesting challenge - will it need rules for troupe play?

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I think what they transform into make the races (all construction equipment gets +2 strength [+1 to another stat based on subrace], etc.). The gimmicks might work as a version of sorcerer. Pretenders are basically Pathfinder Summoners that can switch between nonSyntheist and Syntheist with an action (except that you can't dismiss the pretender shell), so I was thinking that might justify a class. One interesting thing is that some Transformers have big ranged weapons (looking at you Megatron), and that might justify some kind of strength-based approach (somewhat like armor proficiency): if you have X strength, you can use weapon B that does G AoE damage, which would be nice for guns in regular D&D--give the fighter a blunderbuss or elephant gun so they have a purpose in a world with guns.

Tonguez said:

If the game starts talking about Leyline Nexuses, Potential Psychic Energy and Glitter Boys then we will know for sure the Apocalypse is nigh

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Savage Worlds got that license...
... According to locals who have played it, it's apparently a pretty good transplant of the setting.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the fan community using the My Little Pony 5E rules to come up with stats for the characters (and the campaign setting) from Them's Fightin' Herds.

Aldarc said:

It's much the same as with superheroes: If go through enough media, then you can find all sorts of ridiculous things like this. But I'm not sure how much stock I would put into things like this.

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Its one of those things that tends to have stuck. Buzzsaw, when he makes his rare appearances? Extremely powerful, but a glass cannon

(seriously the dude had firepower 7, which is equal to Skywarp, Thundercracker and Cyclonus. Buzzsaw's a monster)

Anywho as a giant Transformers fan I am Very Interested in this. Especially interested to see what the 3rd party stuff is going to be as well because, well, there's a lot of Transformers

Surprisingly though, this isn't the first crossover with D&D and Transformers. A Rust Monster flat out appears in some of the text stories

Here's hoping that G.I. Joe ends up being a decent engine for some other modern action games. And I hope it finds a good sweet spot for the Joes, which for me is that Larry Hama combination of real-world military detail, 80s ninja mysticism, and straight-up comic book nonsense.

JPL said:

Here's hoping that G.I. Joe ends up being a decent engine for some other modern action games. And I hope it finds a good sweet spot for the Joes, which for me is that Larry Hama combination of real-world military detail, 80s ninja mysticism, and straight-up comic book nonsense.

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Yeah, GI Joe gets boring if you take it too seriously.

Alzrius said:

Personally, I'm looking forward to the fan community using the My Little Pony 5E rules to come up with stats for the characters (and the campaign setting) from Them's Fightin' Herds.

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Mecheon said:

Anywho as a giant Transformers fan I am Very Interested in this. Especially interested to see what the 3rd party stuff is going to be as well because, well, there's a lot of Transformers

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I'm looking forward to stats for the crew of the Lost Light, so you could play their further adventure in whatever universe they ended up in!

Depending on how compatible it ends up with 5e proper, just send them to one of the 5e setting! Swerve would love to join an adventurer's guild and go on Quests! Also...

Cyclonus: "You did WHAT?!"
Whirl: "I multiclassed into Warlock!"