Comics & D&D/d20

[Darke]

I tink they are some comics out there which fit nicely into D&D/d20.

BattleChasers
Steampunk
Soul Saga
Warlands

Battlechasers, I think, are the most D&D like with Warlands a close second one.

Any more comics that fit nicely into D&D/d20?

Any Comic-to-D&D/d20-conversions out there?

das Darke

 

[Blacksad]

Any more comics that fit nicely into D&D/d20?

Kränn
Lanfeust
De Cape et de Croc
Garulfo
Thorgal
Le quète de l'oiseau du temps
Marlysa
Troll
Troll de Troy
Arkel
Terra Incognita
Les Feux d'Askel
Les chroniques de la lune noire (by Froideval himself of Oriental Adventures fame, and other 1st edition AD&D books).
Le vent des dieux
Bizu
L'épée de Cristal
Aria
Atalante
etc...

oops! did you meant american-comics?

 

[Khan the Warlord]

Many of the CrossGen comics fill this role (Sojourn is just... NICE).

http://crossgen.com/flash/flashplanet.htm

 

[Neo]

Well there are Kenzers actual D&D comics of course but they are all mini series mostly 4 to 6 issues long. The art in them is good the colouring great, the stories good but rushed...

Still they are worth checking out I've enjoyed them so far, though my hopes hold out for an ongoing series from them at some point.

 

[drowdude]

I would love to see a d20 version of Battlechasers.

 

[paulewaug]

battlechasers

I agree Battlechasers d20 would be great!

I'm so bummed that the comic seems to have passed away!?

Battlechasers is a good example of what I think you could use 4CtF to play a Fantasy supers rather than a Modern supers game.

But an Official game would be Much better.

I never read Warlands or Sojourn..
But they must be pretty good then?
Battlechasers was pretty much the only comic I was reading anymore

Poison Elves is inspired by the writer's D&D gaming.

I haven't read it for a while but it was good.
Although the main character was packing a .45 with a "Rune of Eternity" so it never ran out of bullets so it was a little
"non-DnD-ish" IMHO.

 

[Darke]

@ Blacksad:

Well, I had mostly american comics in my mind, but I do know most of the titles you mentioned - over here in germany we have most (all?) of them translated.

@all:

Yeah, Battlechasers d20 would be great - I hope that the comic is not really dead, even if it seems so - well, we'll see about that.

@paulewaug:

Warlands is great - it reminds me a lot of Record of Lodoss War, but even darker (and with Vampires! *g). They are at the moment in the second turn: Warlands: Age of Ice and have some other sub-series too like Banished Knights or Shidima (Shidima is like a great OA book btw). Take a look, it's worth the time.

das Darke

 

[Siridar]

Battlechasers was cool. Too bad it never got past eight or nine issues.

I picked up the first Warlands story arc. A good solid fantasy comic.

I picked up the first few issues of Red Star and that seemed like a pretty nifty futuristic mixed with fantasy type series, but then I stopped picking it up for some reason.

 

[Neo]

Warlands is excellent..... only problem with Image/top cow comics however is too few pages of story and too many pages of adverts

 

[Voneth]

Ahem, Cross Gen's two fantasy issues, Sojourn and Scion. Heck they even advertise Sojourn in Dragon magazine, so could anyone miss putting Sojourn on this post before me is beyond me.

Sojourn has a classic DND plot, instead of a 7 peice rod of might, it is a 5 piece magic bow that is supposed to call forth a legend and smite down the bad guy. One twist to the story is that in the Cross Gen universe a lot of the heroes seem to have a certain mark on them that give them a lot of power, while in Sojourn it was given to the evil lich instead.

Scion is attractive to me as a DND setting because the background world is simple, yet can be easily expanded. The set up is any race other than human has been genticly created to serve mankind and technology is used only when they have to. So you can have armies men on horses using "lightsabers" logical, not really, but very cool.

Some Dark Age has lost some tech and knowlege, but it is not a "tech is magic" gothic mood. It's more like Dragonstar in that they fully understand the tech they use, they just lost other things such as the knowledge that their ancestors were kicked out of the undersea colonies by underwater servant species. That sort of thing is just legend to them. I hear that CG plans some more fantasy titles in the future as well.