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

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I would prefer if WotC spent their time making more stuff for the D&D IP instead of trying to shoehorn other IP into D&D. Partially because it’s easier to adapt other IP into Magic the Gathering cards than it is to adapt them to D&D. There are very few IPs M:tG is incapable of adapting. There are very few I think D&D is capable of adapting well. D&D’s class system and gameplay loop don’t work well for, say, the Walking Dead, or SpongeBob, or Stranger Things, or Doctor Who, or even Lord of the Rings.

If 5e gets its equivalent of “Universes Beyond,” adapting stuff like the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age would work best, IMO. A lot of fantasy/sci-fi RPG video games are inspired by D&D, so they translate to the game far better than say Harry Potter or Mad Max or (heh) Phineas and Ferb. I have a hard time imagining how many of the suggestions in this thread would work with the 5e system.

 

[Reynard]

I would prefer if WotC spent their time making more stuff for the D&D IP instead of trying to shoehorn other IP into D&D. Partially because it’s easier to adapt other IP into Magic the Gathering cards than it is to adapt them to D&D. There are very few IPs M:tG is incapable of adapting. There are very few I think D&D is capable of adapting well. D&D’s class system and gameplay loop don’t work well for, say, the Walking Dead, or SpongeBob, or Stranger Things, or Doctor Who, or even Lord of the Rings.

If 5e gets its equivalent of “Universes Beyond,” adapting stuff like the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age would work best, IMO. A lot of fantasy/sci-fi RPG video games are inspired by D&D, so they translate to the game far better than say Harry Potter or Mad Max or (heh) Phineas and Ferb. I have a hard time imagining how many of the suggestions in this thread would work with the 5e system.

I think a Hogwarts Medieval setting would fly off the virtual shelves.

 

[MGibster]

D&D’s class system and gameplay loop don’t work well for, say, the Walking Dead, or SpongeBob, or Stranger Things, or Doctor Who, or even Lord of the Rings.

D&D's class system only works well for one thing. D&D. It doesn't work particularly well for the many fantasy books I read in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Reynard]

D&D's class system only works well for one thing. D&D. It doesn't work particularly well for the many fantasy books I read in the 80s and 90s.

Nothing else in your experience depicted zero to hero? Not even a galaxy far away? Seems sus.

 

[MGibster]

Nothing else in your experience depicted zero to hero? Not even a galaxy far away? Seems sus.

You can do zero to hero with a point buy system. D&D is really good for playing D&D. It excels at it for reasons which stump scientists to this day. I'm not knocking D&D for having it's focus, when I have the D&D itch there's no better game after all. But I figured out around 1990 or so that D&D was not so great for other types of fantasy settings let alone other genres.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think a Hogwarts Medieval setting would fly off the virtual shelves.

Possibly, but do you want it because it's a good fit for 5e's mechanics, or because it would likely sell well?

 

[Reynard]

Possibly, but do you want it because it's a good fit for 5e's mechanics, or because it would likely sell well?

I don't "want it." I am both too old to find HP compelling AND I think the author is a monster. I am just saying, from a intersection of demographics perspective, medieval Hogwarts is a winner for D&D.

 

[SteveC]

It's kind of funny. I saw this thread and like some threads do, it really got me thinking. And over time, I decided I can't think of a single IP I'd like to see drawn into the 5E world. I just saw the movie Legend last night (after watching it on VHS about 100 times) and it definitely would work as a 5E setting. But is that exciting? Would I be picking that up? Probably not, except for as a source of lore.

And that frustrated me because I don't think I've ever thought that way, even during the 4E days when there were far fewer IPs that would be appropriate to have the system explore.

 

[Reynard]

You can do zero to hero with a point buy system. D&D is really good for playing D&D. It excels at it for reasons which stump scientists to this day. I'm not knocking D&D for having it's focus, when I have the D&D itch there's no better game after all. But I figured out around 1990 or so that D&D was not so great for other types of fantasy settings let alone other genres.

I think you are too stringent in your assessment of the broader applicability of level based advancement. I don't care to convince you otherwise, but if I did I would point you to about 1000000 video games and CRPGs than manage it outside of D&D clones.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't "want it." I am both too old to find HP compelling AND I think the author is a monster. I am just saying, from a intersection of demographics perspective, medieval Hogwarts is a winner for D&D.

Canonically, that's the point in time where wizards were pooping on the floor and just magicking it away. I am, unfortunately, not kidding.

That said, a great wizard school setting -- not Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, in other words -- is definitely a good idea.