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It's really hard to not be inspired by some part of DnD when you make heroic fantasy but that also depends on what you feel DnD is. For me it's the rules not the settings. (And personally, I think parts of Forgotten Realms and a very cosmopolitan Greyhawk would make far more sense and be better...

The current classes have domains annexed in the radius, if future classes do across the diameter then it might be something like arcana & blade or codex & bone.

Class removed from what? DnD? Well yes, this game isn't DnD even if its high fantasy adventures. It doesn't need to adhere to the player's handbook — I wish they'd been a little more inventive with the classes as is and had a different magic class than wizard.

It might be possible they're keeping Exandria in D&D, but if it were me I'd really want a campaign in another system and world after 9 years (on stream).

I mean, I can see the marines influence in the 40k, but thats the most boring part of Aliens to me — I like the working-class horror of the first movie and the spiritual-clinging-to-hope-when-we-deserve-none of the third. And I for me, horror and grimdark isn't really the same thing. It's hard...

I don't know since I'm not getting any of those vibes. But then again, I don't care about wh40k at all so... What I do get is what if Saladin Ahmed wrote Blade Runner/Alien crossed with Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space.

My group likes to roll dice a lot more than Free League wants us to. We like the chance of things going sideways. It's just that we had far too many roll 12d6 plus reroll and still no 6s in sight — even if we had played it as written and far less rolls, it still would have sucked the fun out of it.

I really don't like setting metaplot through published campaigns and made me roll my eyes hard. Still like the game and core setting so had no problem deciding not to have the campaign info be canon. And if this uses the 2d6 base and step dice from Blade Runner? I'm all for this.

Big company executives are constantly moving about, this is like a law of (un-)nature. But even if the people he liked had stayed, I doubt it would have ended differently: he spent years on the script that didn't get picked up by any distributors. Without that, it couldn't go forwards. Every...

Sorry I missed that. But it's not even "Golden Age of Streaming". Guillermo Del Toro has had Frankenstein in on and off development since 2008 — at least. And he's Guillermo Del Toro! And for this, add that Paramount already has another D&D series in development and the other big streamers...

I did a 7th Sea/Genesys campaign based on a William Elliott Whitmore song. » And sometimes our dreams they float like anchors In hopeless waters oh way down deep Sometimes it seems that all that matters Most are all the things that you can't keep «

I think we and everyone else here is also ignoring a very big part of the tv-series not going forwards: they still didn't have a distributor for it. None of the streaming services were interested for now and after a certain time of that can't just continue to throw development money at it.

The recent D&D movie doesn't really care about the game at all, and if you ask me, it's still a D&D movie.

There we really disagree. Game mechanics are fine in a game, but they're there for balance and game play. Both of those are terrible things to build a story on. It goes the other direction as well. If you're making an RPG based on a video game, you shouldn't transpose those mechanics as they...

What are your requirements for it to count as D&D then? Because from what I can see and since a lot of the game is set in own campaign worlds: an official logo. But that says nothing about the contents really.

Disclaimer: I never read the books when I was 14 but rather tried to do so during the pandemic as an adult — it did not go well without the nostalgic filter. It's probably good books for early teens, but that's it. I suspect that this bullet is a bit of the problem apart from Hasbro selling...

We had a "Hasbro is looking to sell WotC!!" in 2020, and I'm quite certain there were another one around 2017. It's a recurring click-bait by now. And I don't think I've heard of Hasbro selling an IP ever — if it's not profitable for now they'll shut it down and let it rest for ten to fifteen...

For me the setting is a big plus. It's okay for a horror game to not be Cthulhu Mythos or adjacent cosmic horror.. The fantasy world but sliding slightly into the art deco period rather than faux renaissance period dressed down as dark ages and then be a horror game? We don't have too many of...

There was but only as a Secret Lair Drop. At least the BG3 characters were in a set. And apart from the "Dungeons and Dragons what?" factor of the movie, it came out in a weekend with Super Mario Bros just around the corner as well as at the tail of a pandemic close-down. A rock and a hard...

I think Game of Thrones are two things: the books and the tv-show and they both cast very different shadow over fantasy. The books I think lost their influence quite early, there were other movements that picked up: the grimdark action ones for example. Sanderson is one of the few that still...