D&D 5E Any News On The 5e Video Game Front?

[Kaodi]

I have not really been playing any 5e because I have no money and mostly play PbP right now, which is still mostly Pathfinder. But after what happened with the dearth of 4e D&D video games I was just wondering if there has been any news on that front so far. Much fewer out of turn actions, right? So should not be nearly as difficult to translate.

 

[Astrosicebear]

5E would translate pretty easily. Less feats than 3.5 (thinking NWN/TToEE). Mechanics are pretty straightforward for movement and conditions. Spells are simplified per damage, with ability to increase said damage built right in. Classes are pretty streamlined.

The only thing thats at issues is many of the abilities play better on an open world table than a confined video game. But those abilities could be left out or tweaked for gameplay.

Its possible, but D&D has a tumultuously bad relationship with Atari, if they even still hold the rights to video games for 5e.

 

[Eejit]

Well Beamdog have mumbled about wanting to produce a new D&D game a bunch of times after updating the old Bioware Infinity Engine ones. If that were to happen they could well use 5E.

 

[Astrosicebear]

Well Beamdog have mumbled about wanting to produce a new D&D game a bunch of times after updating the old Bioware Infinity Engine ones. If that were to happen they could well use 5E.

They could Kickstart a Bioware Infinity Engine 2.0 for 5E in a day. Prolly net $1mil easily. Id love to see a conversion of the old games as well as new games.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Looking back to 3E, I think Neverwinter Nights was the first CRPG based on the ruleset and that was about two years after the 3E rules released.

Even disregarding the other issues they're still ironing out for 5E (third parties, etc.), I don't expect to see a 5E CRPG anytime soon.

 

[Parmandur]

There is a tower defense game in the works, but that is not so heavily based in the rules I'd wager.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

The old Temple of Elemental Evil game was pretty good and it was as close to the tabletop rules as the games ever got. I think 5e could do pretty good game wise.

 

[BigVanVader]

I don't like the idea of a video game, if only because the customization potential obviously would plummet. Every Barbarian would look rather similar to each other, every Elf would have a finite number of ways to tweak themselves, etc etc etc. It's why I didn't like the D&D MMO, actually.

But, that's just me. And let's be honest, if the game was extremely fun in terms of the action, I'd definitely be a hypocrite and play it anyway.

 

[dd.stevenson]

D&D 5E was pretty clearly designed around the idea that TTRPGs do certain things better than CRPGs, and vice versa. Given that, I'm not sure it'd be an amazing starting point for a video game.

 

[Ron Jovi]

Just bring me some baldurs gate dark Alliance games for ps4