D&D 5E Video Game Worlds You Wish Were D&D 5E Settings

[Reynard]

Some of the coolest world building in fantasy comes out of video games these days. There is a broad diversity of worlds, from traditional orc-elf-dragon settings to steampunk inspired settings to quasi-historical ones. Among the many worlds of video games, which ones would you love to see made for 5E (either "officially" or as simply on a fan level)?

As much as the actual game play of World of Warcraft, I think the world and lore is really interesting and think it would make a great 5E setting. I also desperately want a good Elder Scrolls D&D setting book, because Skyrim.

 

[Beleriphon]

Avernum, Avadon and the Geneforge world. All created by the fine folks at Spiderweb Software. I think that Avernum is probably the one that fits best since it the one that seems to be most straight forward heroic fantasy, but they're all great game with fantastic worlds.

http://spidweb.com/

 

[Paraxis]

I have not played the game yet, it was just released but the setting for Pillars of Eternity looks interesting.

http://eternity.obsidian.net/game

I loved the old PC game Arcanum: of steamworks and magick obscura, I have set a campaign it years ago using savage worlds system, but a D&D translation would be great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura

I think an adaptation of the Legend of Zelda world would be interesting.

 

[neobolts]

Oh wow, I would LOVE to see Guild Wars 2 made into a tabletop setting. It just screams D&D setting. Jeff Grubb (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jeff_Grubb) had a big part in the world and lore for Guild Wars 2, and there is a D&D sensibility throughout as a result.

Other than that, some classics...
Secret of Mana could make for a fun, rules light game.
The classic Wild Arms RPG series.
The MMO setting in Final Fantasy XI. (The lore is far better than the gameplay IMO).

 

[Imaro]

I would love to see a Dark Souls setting... though I do wonder how they would get that difficult gritty feel without having everyone constantly making new characters... maybe create an "undead" template for the PHB races...

 

[iserith]

The Mushroom Kingdom from Super Mario. It's got it all.

Hmm. Maybe I'll make a short-form scenario based on this and post it.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I think an adaptation of the Legend of Zelda world would be interesting.

Zelda was my first fantasy game. I also am still playing older games of it down loaded to my Wii. I've used it a few tines for inspirations... But I would kill for a setting based on it...

Not even hyrule per say, but a world with a handful of kingdoms, with a shadow version of the world, a profacy of a featuring hero, and a series of artifacts... Add in some basic fantasy tropes and you are golden... Heck even the first game is great for dungeon exploration

 

[ExploderWizard]

The world of Rastan.

 

[procproc]

Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (English, i.e., 4 and 6 Japanese). Both of those games just had tremendous flavor and good settings. For that matter, I really liked FF7's feel, as well.

I mean, the newer games may have been great too -- I just haven't played them.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

Final Fantasy (the original) - I have actually tried to run campaigns there using BECMI - it pretty much is a D&D world, complete with mind flayers, Tiamat, Bahamut, a dark elf, and a bunch of other classic monsters.

The Elder Scrolls - I haven't actually played these, just watched over my wife's shoulder as she played them, and they are huge and quite detailed, ripe for further exploration.

I would say Dragon Age, but there's already a tabletop RPG for that.

Assassin's Creed, believe it or not, would be nifty. Maybe not the literal settings, but the overall concept of plugging in, Total Recall style, and reliving another life - except instead of a past life in Earth's history, an alternate life in another reality, a fantasy reality.