WotC What anime franchises could be adapted into D&D?

[Urriak Uruk]

Reading Berserk now, it pretty much works.

I'll say though, what is the likelihood of any of these crossovers? Seems pretty small to me; the likeliest I can see is perhaps Castlevania (the Netflix show but also the games) because WotC actually seems to only want to crossover with properties that are very popular in the Western audience. Rick and Morty and Stranger Things are both extremely American-audience focused, and I believe any crossovers will likely remain there.

That said, WotC has done crossovers before; Warhammer (that one is extremely old in the days of their shared magazine), Diablo, World of Warcraft. I'd personally like to see something like Zelda, but that's just me.

 

[jasper]

Jackie Chan adventurers. Speed Racer. Wolf and Spice.

 

[Alzrius]

Most of my D&D games end up as Slayers even if I try to avoid it.

Hence the old axiom:

"Record of Lodoss War is what every D&D campaign wants to be. Slayers is what they end up actually becoming."

 

[Alzrius]

That said, WotC has done crossovers before; Warhammer (that one is extremely old in the days of their shared magazine), Diabo, World of Warcraft.

Don't forget the old StarCraft boxed set.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Bleach
Naruto

 

[TiwazTyrsfist]

Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, and Rune Soldier Louie are all either Ur-examples or potentially excluded form being reverse examples.

All three are based on the various authors D&D campaigns.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I bet a Cowboy Bebop Spelljammer campaign would be fun.

See you space wizard.

I don't use Spelljammer, but I am going to run a Cowboy Bebop inspired short campaign set in a DnD space galaxy.

 

[Azzy]

Crazy idea: I kinda-sorta want to run an rpg Isekai as an actual rpg, where not only the pc's but most of the npcs are fully aware of the fact that they're in a game that runs on the rules of Dungeons and Dragons.

Maybe tack in some mmorpg tropes while I'm at it.

I've had this same thought, too, since I first watched Log Horizon. I've never done anything with the idea, though.

 

[Azzy]

Wolf and Spice.

Do your players really want a disertation on fantasy medival economics?

 

[Azzy]

Record of Lodoss War

Insert obligatory post about how Lodoss-tou Senki started as an actual D&D (BECMI) game that was serialized in a magazine as a sort of a "hey check out this new thing" to their readers. And how it became really popular and turned into a light novel series. After which, the creators wanted to release it as a licenced D&D setting in Japan (and TSR, being stupid, declined) so they instead created their own system for it. And then there's that whole anime.... And, well, that story's been done to death.