D&D (2024) What Licensed IP Do You Want For 5E?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Want? I'm with @Morrus here -- I'd rather everything get its own bespoke system when possible. That said, WotC's Star Wars was pretty nifty, so if they devote enough resources and the right developer to these projects, they could get enough tweaks to make it work, depending on the property.

Just going off of franchises that don't, to my knowledge, have a current RPG license, here are ones that I think could work, although I don't know that I, personally, am in the market for any of them:

• Pokemon
• Frozen/Disney Princesses/Kingdom Hearts/Dreamlight Valley Disney RPG
• Harry Potter
• Looney Tunes
• The Incredibles
• Warcraft
• Diablo
• Grand Theft Auto
• Jurassic Park
• James Bond
• Mario Bros.
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Scooby Doo
• Assassin's Creed
• Mission: Impossible
• Indiana Jones
• Ghostbusters
• The Matrix
• Chronicles of Narnia

Of that list, I think The Incredibles, Warcraft, Diablo, James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters and the Chronicles of Narnia have the most appeal to me personally.

Warcraft, Diablo and Narnia would be relatively easy to do, as they all exist in a D&D style set-up to begin with, and would just need bespoke player-facing content to work.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'd spend real money on a 5th Edition D&D campaign setting for:

• Final Fantasy VI (video game)
• Diablo II (computer game)
• The Strain (television series)
• Stardew Valley (video game)
• Max Max: Fury Road (movie)
• Zombieland (movie)

 

[Muso]

I used to want Dark Sun or Birthright, but after recent releases - I don't want WotC within 100 yards of either.

I can agree with you.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Want? I'm with @Morrus here -- I'd rather everything get its own bespoke system when possible. That said, WotC's Star Wars was pretty nifty, so if they devote enough resources and the right developer to these projects, they could get enough tweaks to make it work, depending on the property.

Just going off of franchises that don't, to my knowledge, have a current RPG license, here are ones that I think could work, although I don't know that I, personally, am in the market for any of them:

• Pokemon
• Frozen/Disney Princesses/Kingdom Hearts/Dreamlight Valley Disney RPG
• Harry Potter
• Looney Tunes
• The Incredibles
• Warcraft
• Diablo
• Grand Theft Auto
• Jurassic Park
• James Bond
• Mario Bros.
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Scooby Doo
• Assassin's Creed
• Mission: Impossible
• Indiana Jones
• Ghostbusters
• The Matrix
• Chronicles of Narnia

Of that list, I think The Incredibles, Warcraft, Diablo, James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters and the Chronicles of Narnia have the most appeal to me personally.

Warcraft, Diablo and Narnia would be relatively easy to do, as they all exist in a D&D style set-up to begin with, and would just need bespoke player-facing content to work.

As big a franchise as Potter is and how they are not ashamed to slap their logo on any kind of product (Harry Potter the Flame Thrower!) I am actually shocked there hasn't been an official Potter RPG in the past 20 years.

 

[MGibster]

What licensed IP -- movies, books, games, comics, whatever -- do you want to see given the 5E (presumably 2024) treatment by WotC? What form (dice, minis, setting book,adventure, map pack, etc) would you want it to take?

As someone who has PTSD from his experience with the great d20 glut of the early 21st century, I can still acknowledge there were a lot of surprisingly good adaptations. One of the best d20 products was Call of Cthulhu d20. If this was anyone's first introduction to CoC, they lucked out, because this product was a homerun. It might be nice to see a decent horror game adapted to 5th edition.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As big a franchise as Potter is and how they are not ashamed to slap their logo on any kind of product (Harry Potter the Flame Thrower!) I am actually shocked there hasn't been an official Potter RPG in the past 20 years.

The legend is that the author had a real problem with people doing stuff with her characters and setting that she didn't approve of, and RPGs throw the doors open to that in a way that few other adaptations do. I don't know how true that story is, but it's been repeated for decades at this point.

 

[MGibster]

Hell, while we're wishing....I demand a 5th edition adaptation of The Littles.

 

[DarkCrisis]

As someone who has PTSD from his experience with the great d20 glut of the early 21st century, I can still acknowledge there were a lot of surprisingly good adaptations. One of the best d20 products was Call of Cthulhu d20. If this was anyone's first introduction to CoC, they lucked out, because this product was a homerun. It might be nice to see a decent horror game adapted to 5th edition.

You are the first person I have ever seen say CoC D20 was good. I whole heartedly disagree, and I bought it day one. Much like WoD D20 it was just... not good.

Then again I had played regular CoC (and WoD), and all I saw in those books was D&D. They only D20 system that I thought worked was Star Wars. Can probably blame KotR for that.

 

[dave2008]

Yet they are coming anyway.

Just because Chris said it was coming doesn't mean it actually will. Companies fail to deliver on things all the time.

 

[Reynard]

Just because Chris said it was coming doesn't mean it actually will. Companies fail to deliver on things all the time.

I would be surprised if they did not try at least a couple items before deciding whether to scrap the idea.

Given demographics, i wonder if something like one Piece would fly?