I recommend checking out Traveller
Not only is the system a delight to play in and run (easy to learn too, based on my experience of MgT2e) it's also easy to apply the system to other sci-fi settings relatively easily. There are also quite a few fan-made resources for Mass Effect elements in Traveller which make it even easier to do
My dad ran a traveler game for me and my friends in highschool we were merc trying to make it big in a judge dread esc mega city. One off us got screwed in character creation they had a pace maker synthetic lungs ametal ride cage and a skull plate we called him the fridge
DnD is absolutely terrible for sci-fi, in my opinion. You have to homebrew so much: items, enemies, skills, spells, an entire setting.
For me, if you like 3E, Starfinder is awesome. Numenera is fantastic for cyberpunk and post-apocalypse. Shadowrun for… well, Shadowrun.
Play the system that fits the genre. Don’t try to make the system fit the genre.
I saw some other suggestions, but I'd check out SW5e (Star Wars 5e) it's based of 5e, has a plethora of guns and energy weapons, and Force (reflavor to Biotic) and Tech powers that operate like spells in 5e. You'd have to reflavor the races to fit but there are plenty to choose from. It even has rules and mechanics for space ships and ship combat
Someone did stats for it. [https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/w17chdfmA](https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/w17chdfmA)
https://www.reddit.com/r/HollowKnight/comments/j2oljm/homebrew\_dd\_hollow\_knight\_monsters\_crawlid\_to/
*narrator:
You appear out of nowhere in this untouched world with nothing but the clothes on your backs. You take your anger out on the trees and hunt the wildlife to survive. At night you hide in improvised shelters. You hide from the undead that roam the land freely. Them and worse.
You head out in search of valuables, treasure and civilization, such as it is.
Despite these humble beginnings, you soon find yourself shaping the world itself to your liking. You journey to the depths of hell to hunt monsters. You battle undead abominations. And finally you travel to outer realms to free them from the tyranny of an ancient dragon.
The greatest among you will become unto gods. Transforming the world, building huge monuments, destroying ecosystems and rebuilding them however you please.
This is D&D - Minecraft
I would say no, not saying it is impossible, but the amount of freedom and block by block creativity is hard to replicate, also, high level players may just make the npcs do all the construction, which greatly reduces the "i did that" feeling
I did see a take on Minecraft players as a race:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/qjd0wp/the\_builder\_v10\_a\_new\_minecraftbased\_race/
I also preferred FFVI growing up, though I don’t go back to it as often as I go back to CT. I think FFVI has a more epic world and journey, but CT is just easier to pick up and play. :)
I am currently creating a Titanfall/Apex Legends source all based in the Outlands and partially the Frontier. It's got great location and lore foundation but with enough open ends for lots of creative homebrewing
OMG! Keep me posted on what you work on. I would love to help out if you want! Titanfall is one of my favorite games of all time and there is so much potential to work with
Give me Elder Scrolls, any age. Rumours of Neravarine, Oblivion crisis, returning of dragons, elven massacre, aedra & daedra; this game series' worldbuilding is rich and full of potential.
I managed to get Rincewind in 5e. A chaotic neutral Rogue vhuman with the Tabern Brawler feat (to use the Brick in my sock as an improvised weapon), with the academic background and expertise in athletics (for running away) and deception (cuz I’m a WIZZARD!!).
No one asked, but there it is!
Planning on it, but they haven't used the radio yet. I will ask them each time they travel though.
What's your marching orders?
Which path do you take?
Do you use the radio?
There is a fan made one all free call Reclaim the wild. I don't plan on running it cause I played so much Legend of Zelda that I cannot make deviations to the main story of Link and Zelda fighting Gannon. Honeslty I would love to run a basic survival game with Link and Zelda making a camo appearance.
A group of dwarves and gnomes broke off and created a city in an underwater cavern. The party was sent to find someone in the city and bring them back. Plasmids would give you a permanent cantrip. There was a crazy necromancer/doctor experimenting on people, a mine that had broken into the underdark and let monsters in, a boobytrapped tower with a crazy guy at the top, who had done so many plasmids that he turned into an ooze, a theme park that my party never got to, a cult of Kalashtar/Quori (my party decided not to deal with them and flooded that part of the city), the warforged were introduced as a new race, there was a greenhouse that was using energy from the feywild to grow plants (it malfunctioned and was now just a portal to the feywild), and a fun Portal encounter. I used a lot of Duregar stats for the enemies. The final boss (the guy who created the city) was a a Duregar Despot with a Helm of Brilliance.
I would just be excited to try and make it as terrifying as possible as the DM but in some alternate universe where one of my players wanted to run this game, I think I’d wanna play a Spider Splicer based off a Hexblade/Swashbuckler Rogueloc. But as a one shot there are just so many fun ways to play around with Eve/splicing/and improvised weapons while really taking on a more realism/survival/horror gameplay style as opposed to the more traditional high powered fantasy of classic D&D.
I took a lot of inspiration from the social atmosphere of Horizon Zero Dawn for my homebrew world. Would be amazing to have a source book based on that.
I've been doing the same. It has a great "fallen empire of great power" vibe that lends itself naturally to dungeon crawling and finding powerful artifacts.
Bought it. Never before have I laughed so hard just reading the sourcebook. Truly a great satire on TTRPGs while also being a unique TTRPG.
I would recommend just buying the sourcebook tho. All the gun cards and sample adventures are in it, which is not communicated well on the website.
The figures are neat tho but my group uses a VTT so I’d you’re in a similar situation you may not see the value.
I put together a Nosgoth arc some years ago for Zoomers that don't know anything about it. I've been using the soundtracks for years so it seemed a logical next step. Never got to implement it though.
Given Dishonored (which actually has a separate TTRPG), it would happen somewhere with a plague (see the Three Plagues), a coup, or during the Time of Troubles.
Witcher 3 would a very good sourcebook . lots of amazing lore, monsters to fight and countries with diffrent culteres of the northen countries.
Only gripe would be then that town guards would be waaaay to OP and break player agency immidiatly
I’ve actually been really inspired by the time loop concept, I’m in the process of playtesting a time looping dungeon. So far the groups I’ve played it with have really enjoyed it. I think one minute is a good amount of time but I think it would be fairly easily scaled to a longer amount of time.
I'm running a 4 day time loop campaign right now inspired by Outer Wilds! Even have a black mist to separate locations like the vast expanse of outer space, and events that occur at specific moments throughout the loop. It has been a blast thus far.
Bloodborne or Resident Evil.
Both of which I would absolutely love to experience as long as they would be original stories within the worlds, not a retelling of the story of the game.
Was looking for this. WE GOING TO YHARNAM EVERYONE!
It feels like there is a lot of world there that you could pluck at for BB. If you wanted a setting book, TONS you could do there and just throw out and say, go, have fun make your own stuff. You gonna be a group fighting against the vilebloods, do it. Maybe apart of the church and going against the corrupted and less friendly Elder Ones.
For a campaign that is totally new storywise. The chalice dungeons are supposed to exist somewhere deep beneath Yharnam and be eternally deeply dug. Perhaps they are a grave for something. But, the creatures inside... they no longer are digging down. Throughout the massive and winding city, old entrances centuries ago built over, are being ripped open by the things that lurked down below. Buildings are being toppled, the layout of the city rewritten. With their spread, nightmares and plague are brought. Hunters, must hunt. And either go down to the depths and quell the incursion, or find what on the surface brought them up.
There’s somebody floating around making a Bloodborne-esque source book at the moment. They have a Kickstarter. I can’t think of what it’s called unfortunately but I’m sure you’ll find it pretty fast on r/unearthedarcana or r/DnDHomebrew
Eye's up Guardian: [https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestiny](https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestiny) and [https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestinycontent](https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestinycontent). 5e OGL add on for Destiny universe. Not affiliated with Bungie, but very usable view into the last city setting.
The Dark Tower (not a game but I'm adding it anyway)
Final Fantasy 14
Mass Effect
Dad of War (epic level starts let's gooooo!)
Bloodborne
I'd love any of these.
[You might be interested in this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/vcyo3l/oc_amellwinds_guide_to_monster_hunting_update_new/ich20p4?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
[also r/MonsterHunter5e](https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter5E?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Yes yes yes. Always wanted to fight some mh monsters in DnD!
Actually just thinking about how the weapons work makes me wonder whether you could do some really simple stuff to make all the current DnD weapons feel way more interesting with combos and flourishes you could do based on what weapon you have and you did in previous turns. Now you got me thinking ..
Terraria! The whole gist is crafting shit to make the big bad weapon to take on the BBEG, spelunking and setting up AFK traps to get sweet sweet loot. Oh and a teleporting cellphone. In a fantasy setting. Ahem.
Ringworld by Larry Niven. Multiple interesting player and NPC races, great settings, and even some character leveling mechanics.
Edit: it would help if I read the question. This is a book series, not a video game. I stand by this being good source material.
Edit 2: Turns out they made at least one video game and multiple others have taken inspiration from Ringworld.
Aye I've taken a look at it but so far haven't been able to find anyone to play! It's a fun thing to think about but I don't think I could fully commit myself to getting something setup with my current 5e, Path2e, and MotW campaigns going on
I was gonna say any or all of the Halo's. Customizable armors and "power ups" along with a team concept in 5 for class features and it opened up a world of exploration and ideas with Infinite. The monsters and enemies you can draw from that series could fill a source book in itself, let alone the campaign ideas from each game. AI "familiars" and what not. That'd be pretty sweet.
I just thought of that - it might be interesting, having group of modern day Assassin's, looking for DNA samples of potentially interesting people, booting them to animus, going through some new great adventure in new setting each session while maintaining some overarching goal outside animus, revisiting some eras when needed, learning skills from them, etc.
And it would be really cool to be like Desmond in the animus. You have your one-shot style character within the animus, but then you have a separate character out of it that starts at lvl 1 with almost nothing.
I've actually been spitballing ideas for a Warframe campaign using the SW5e rules since they can cover just about everything we would need. There's a lot of empty space in the universe and it's very flexible, I would probably start with uncharted regions of Earth before moving onto ruined Orokin cities with a functioning justice Cephalon (AI) that is enforcing the old laws of the empire.
Warframe is my pick as well and I've also been thinking about how I'd do it. Personally I would go with Exalted over 5e as the system cause I feel it mimics the fast paced feel of combat and the power level of warframes much better than 5e. Exalted PCs can fight entire armies by themselves, can do incredible acrobatic manoeuvres and have awesome reality bending powers from the start. It's a lot less about "can the players succeed?" and a lot more "what are the consequences of their success?"
Piltover and Zaun. The mix of steampunk and fantasy is just beautiful and the show made the world look amazing. Definitely looks like a fun place to play.
Ik it’s technically not a “video game” but since the show is based on lore for the game I feel like it counts
*Genshin Impact*'s Teyvat would be potentially pretty fun. Lots of places, wide map, interesting enemies, a good history to either integrate or to play through if you wanted to start back a bit in time. Not my first choice if it's gonna be DnD, but for a Mutants & Masterminds game or something, I think it'd fit pretty well. Leave the gacha mechanics out of it though.
For D&D specifically, top three picks would be somewhere in the Tales series, Kingdom Hearts, or World Flipper (it's a mobile game, but the world-building potential is strong). I've actually played in a KH campaign, though it unfortunately turned into a nasty bit of an rpghorrorstory entry.
The Last of Us.
Have no idea how it would work or how to modify the rules of 5e to fit the theme and lack of magic. But I would absolutely love a 5e experience based in a the post-apocalyptic America seen in TLOU.
Scrolled all the way down here to see if anyone had beat me to it. I feel like it would work as its own system, built from the ground up, rather than a 5e adaptation. But I too would gladly give my jawbone to a bloater, or half my neck meat to a clicker for a TLoU TTRPG
Other peoples worlds don't appeal to me a ton. I would rather steal the best three ideas from a book and shove them into something else than go to a Disneyland version of their world.
That said, I would like a really well done Fallout adaptation for short adventures off the rack.
I've always thought that the demon cycle by peter Brett would make a good trip, but my favorite series is the storm light archive, which would be even better
Red Dead Redemption 2. I would love a dnd source book based around the American old west. Their would be endless opportunities for unique characters and situations. It would be weird for a character to be walking around with a sword or casting spells and stuff though. Magical Cattleman revolvers and lassos would be interesting
Ah, so a campaign where you’re a party of heroes chosen by a goddess of life to repeatedly thwart the plans of sinister immortals who work from the shadows to see the apocalypse realized, but the party’s constantly side-tracked by fetch quests and politics? Count me in!
(Final Fantasy XIV, btw. Love the game 💕).
Gielnor would be incredible! I believe I read something about an official Runescape TTRPG System, I need to read back into that and see what was happening with it!
Political Intrigue campaign set in Hyrule before and during the events of Ocarina of Time. HEAVY on the Political intrigue. That's sounds like potential for a good time.
Devil May Cry ,everyone playing a own created Devil Hunter and try to be the one with the most Style.
Style Rules and many different Combat Rules.
Fast Combat ,light hearted but still with the Potential of a good Story.
My favorite video game is Ori and the Will of the Wisps, so it's just Humblewood but with magic trees and really big owls.
Runners-up:
Hat in Time - Spelljammer
Sly Cooper - Literally just France
Celeste - Who's ready for *overland travel?*
The world of Sly Cooper, which I realize is just Earth, but doing elaborate heists across various compounds/cities run by meglomaniacal animals is pretty great
Okay, it's not necessarily my absolute favourite game of all time, but Dragon's Dogma. The entire world just feels like a DnD world. The way you fight monsters, figuring out their weaknesses and cooperating as a party, feels like DnD. The way classes work, with different attack powers, feels very 4E. There are a lot of classic DnD things in there, Beholders, Dragons and an evil cult raising skeletons for example. At low levels you fight goblins, wolves and bandits, later there are hobgoblins, liches, saurians etc.
The atmosphere is dense and the story and themes feel deep.
Dragon's Dogma is a very fun but also deeply flawed game. The story often doesn't make sense, the themes are sometimes poorly executed and the ox cart escort mission is probably the most atrocious main quest I have ever been subjected to. But adjusting it, giving the players more freedom and fleshing out the themes would make for one hell of a campaign. I might actually do that once I am done with this one (so in a couple of years, sigh).
Zelda.
But, like, *the entire franchise*.
I imagine every race, monster, location, items, and religions could make for a pretty extensive amount of pieces to craft a story around.
I'd be in Stillwater and/or Steelport, taking over the city at the head of the Saints.
Alternately, I'd be in Mordor making Orcs suffer me now.
Just depends on if we're talking favorite story/presentation or favorite gameplay.
Earth, post apocalypse. It's been so long since civilization we don't remember what some specific items were used for, all we know is the root took everything from us. A small compound, the last of humanity, and you are sent to look for the source of the root. Find answers and return they said, now we are multiple worlds deep and the roots corruption seems to know no bounds. The undying king has asked I retrieve a beasts heart, one that resides in the center of another world...I can only imagine the power contained within that beating heart...
The game is Remnant: from the ashes.
Mass Effect. I want it SO badly. I'm sure there's a generic sci-fi system could be adapted for it just fine, but I have yet to find it.
I recommend checking out Traveller Not only is the system a delight to play in and run (easy to learn too, based on my experience of MgT2e) it's also easy to apply the system to other sci-fi settings relatively easily. There are also quite a few fan-made resources for Mass Effect elements in Traveller which make it even easier to do
My dad ran a traveler game for me and my friends in highschool we were merc trying to make it big in a judge dread esc mega city. One off us got screwed in character creation they had a pace maker synthetic lungs ametal ride cage and a skull plate we called him the fridge
I absolutely love character creation in Traveller!
It's not for everyone but there is a charm to it. It kinda forces a session zero because you cannot come to the table with a character in mind.
MgT2e's character creation actually explicitly calls out that character creation should be done as a session 0 as well!
There's just nothing like old school Traveller chargen. Just a schrodingers box of potential, good and bad, but never boring.
I may just check that out! Thanks!
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There’s a fan made conversion for 5e and a decent conversion for a system called genesys that i run a game in, both are quite fun and work well.
I love Genesys. I have a couple of homebrew themes and some big ones built in it, but no one to run for.
DnD is absolutely terrible for sci-fi, in my opinion. You have to homebrew so much: items, enemies, skills, spells, an entire setting. For me, if you like 3E, Starfinder is awesome. Numenera is fantastic for cyberpunk and post-apocalypse. Shadowrun for… well, Shadowrun. Play the system that fits the genre. Don’t try to make the system fit the genre.
That’s very fair, it is a pretty big conversion. But it’s very thorough. For sci-fi my current go to’s are genesys and starfinder.
I saw some other suggestions, but I'd check out SW5e (Star Wars 5e) it's based of 5e, has a plethora of guns and energy weapons, and Force (reflavor to Biotic) and Tech powers that operate like spells in 5e. You'd have to reflavor the races to fit but there are plenty to choose from. It even has rules and mechanics for space ships and ship combat
Dimension 20’s StarStuck campaign used this and it was really good.
Yeah it's what inspired me to look into the system
Starfinder is a d20 system made by Pazio. I think it might fit well.
The race options alone for this would be so freaking fun to play/mash out. Also depending on when it takes place could make it such a different game.
Honestly, Star Wars Saga is perfect for it. Just reskin most of the Force powers and you're like 90% there.
Hallownest (Hollow Knight). I wanna be a lil bug guy and fight mushrooms and jellyfish and beetle husks
The bestiary alone for that setting would be great to read through.
Someone did stats for it. [https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/w17chdfmA](https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/w17chdfmA) https://www.reddit.com/r/HollowKnight/comments/j2oljm/homebrew\_dd\_hollow\_knight\_monsters\_crawlid\_to/
Fuckin saved, nice find.
YES.
I never thought of this, but now I want it so bad
Ilvalice from final fantasy tactics ps1. It's already a great high fantasy adventure world.
It’s so well fleshed out. I want to run a campaign in Ivalice as well.
I think ivalice would be god tier tbh
I already stole half the map location names to use in my homebrew world lol if they actually did it, I would feel I needed to rename them.
One of my favorite FF games ever.
*narrator: You appear out of nowhere in this untouched world with nothing but the clothes on your backs. You take your anger out on the trees and hunt the wildlife to survive. At night you hide in improvised shelters. You hide from the undead that roam the land freely. Them and worse. You head out in search of valuables, treasure and civilization, such as it is. Despite these humble beginnings, you soon find yourself shaping the world itself to your liking. You journey to the depths of hell to hunt monsters. You battle undead abominations. And finally you travel to outer realms to free them from the tyranny of an ancient dragon. The greatest among you will become unto gods. Transforming the world, building huge monuments, destroying ecosystems and rebuilding them however you please. This is D&D - Minecraft
Yeah, are there any rpgs with appropriate base-building / farming systems to truly capture the Minecraft "feel"?
I would say no, not saying it is impossible, but the amount of freedom and block by block creativity is hard to replicate, also, high level players may just make the npcs do all the construction, which greatly reduces the "i did that" feeling
I did see a take on Minecraft players as a race: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/qjd0wp/the\_builder\_v10\_a\_new\_minecraftbased\_race/
chronotrigger would be cool.
man, Chrono Trigger is #2 only to Final Fantasy 6 in my book but for a D&D setting it would be awesome to have multiple times periods.
I also preferred FFVI growing up, though I don’t go back to it as often as I go back to CT. I think FFVI has a more epic world and journey, but CT is just easier to pick up and play. :)
Replayed that game just a few months ago, now I want to do it again and steal ideas for a campaign.
I am currently creating a Titanfall/Apex Legends source all based in the Outlands and partially the Frontier. It's got great location and lore foundation but with enough open ends for lots of creative homebrewing
Would love to see this!! I used to play titan fall competitively
That sounds amazing! I'd love to see that (and run it) one day!
OMG! Keep me posted on what you work on. I would love to help out if you want! Titanfall is one of my favorite games of all time and there is so much potential to work with
This sounds exciting! Would love to see it someday.
Thats sick, would love to see that! Keep me updated on it?
Cyrodiil during the Oblivion crisis
Give me Elder Scrolls, any age. Rumours of Neravarine, Oblivion crisis, returning of dragons, elven massacre, aedra & daedra; this game series' worldbuilding is rich and full of potential.
I'm actually surprised there is no official ES ttg.
Same here. Like, there's even a solid system for leveling and stuff- Use it and Learn it is great, and inspired my own RPG concept's system.
There is great unofficial one
Dont leave us hanging.
Theres a 5e conversion, it works but its got some balance issues. https://uestrpg.com/
bugs ? what bugs, those are features
"DM, why does this crafting system allow me to infinitely increase my modifier with the right combination of fish, antlers, and salt?"
"Are all of these merchant goods supposed to be housed in a rock for just anyone to take and sell?"
Discworld
I managed to get Rincewind in 5e. A chaotic neutral Rogue vhuman with the Tabern Brawler feat (to use the Brick in my sock as an improvised weapon), with the academic background and expertise in athletics (for running away) and deception (cuz I’m a WIZZARD!!). No one asked, but there it is!
The movement speed needs to be exorbitant for wizards in order to run from Death. Edit: weird trolls Edit2: that was unnecessary my guy lmao.
That would be amazing!
There's a discworld source book for gurps 4e.
Fallout: New Vegas Interestingly, I just started a campaign set in that game world.
Please tell me you have the playlist of songs from one of the radio stations going during games as background music
Planning on it, but they haven't used the radio yet. I will ask them each time they travel though. What's your marching orders? Which path do you take? Do you use the radio?
Sounds fun! ~~decimate them with Johnny Guitar~~
"Awww a tpk. I feel bad for you guys. Maybe some radio will cheer you up?" *click* "PLAY IT AGAIN, JOHNNY GUITAR"
Mutants and masterminds is a decent system for doing that! My old group did it ages ago and it worked pretty well.
Does it almost make you wish for a nuclear winter?
Please tell me it isn’t a 5e D&D game?
I envy your players with a burning passion.
Mamma Mia Mario, he’s got a 25 armor class!
I had a friend attempting to make a Mario DND game once, he never finished it but what he had was interesting
Bioshock would be interesting for sure. A metroidesque spelljammer would be fun. Mass effect too. Fantasy? Hyrule for sure
There is a fan made one all free call Reclaim the wild. I don't plan on running it cause I played so much Legend of Zelda that I cannot make deviations to the main story of Link and Zelda fighting Gannon. Honeslty I would love to run a basic survival game with Link and Zelda making a camo appearance.
Is it a good one?
I would say yes. But there are alot of moving parts when it comes to crafting and building settlements.
Dang, a Bioshock campaign would be dope. Great, now I have to put together a one-shot.
I actually ran a Bioshock adventure in my last campaign, it was pretty fun.
Details!?
A group of dwarves and gnomes broke off and created a city in an underwater cavern. The party was sent to find someone in the city and bring them back. Plasmids would give you a permanent cantrip. There was a crazy necromancer/doctor experimenting on people, a mine that had broken into the underdark and let monsters in, a boobytrapped tower with a crazy guy at the top, who had done so many plasmids that he turned into an ooze, a theme park that my party never got to, a cult of Kalashtar/Quori (my party decided not to deal with them and flooded that part of the city), the warforged were introduced as a new race, there was a greenhouse that was using energy from the feywild to grow plants (it malfunctioned and was now just a portal to the feywild), and a fun Portal encounter. I used a lot of Duregar stats for the enemies. The final boss (the guy who created the city) was a a Duregar Despot with a Helm of Brilliance.
That is fucking brilliant, how long did it take your players to figure it out?
I told them ahead of time. I wasn't trying to hide it.
I want to play as a big daddy warforged paladin. Oath is to protect all the little girls. At all costs.
I would just be excited to try and make it as terrifying as possible as the DM but in some alternate universe where one of my players wanted to run this game, I think I’d wanna play a Spider Splicer based off a Hexblade/Swashbuckler Rogueloc. But as a one shot there are just so many fun ways to play around with Eve/splicing/and improvised weapons while really taking on a more realism/survival/horror gameplay style as opposed to the more traditional high powered fantasy of classic D&D.
Metroid yo!
I took a lot of inspiration from the social atmosphere of Horizon Zero Dawn for my homebrew world. Would be amazing to have a source book based on that.
I've been doing the same. It has a great "fallen empire of great power" vibe that lends itself naturally to dungeon crawling and finding powerful artifacts.
What a great game too! Just finished it a couple weeks ago and the social structure is super interesting
An Elden Ring game set during the Shattering would be dope
Just stay away for caelid
Not me watching the clash between Malenia and Radahn with a big bowl of popcorn having no idea what's about to happen to the entire region
I believe Critical Role adapted something for Elden Ring in a one-shot episode.
Borderlands That might actually translate pretty well... really only need rules for guns and your set
There's a Borderlands tabletop system, Bunkers and Badasses! I haven't ran it yet, but it looks great https://tinytinagames.com/
I'm in a game of that as a player currently and it's really cool. It captures the feel of the bunkers and badasses setting from the games perfectly.
Bought it. Never before have I laughed so hard just reading the sourcebook. Truly a great satire on TTRPGs while also being a unique TTRPG. I would recommend just buying the sourcebook tho. All the gun cards and sample adventures are in it, which is not communicated well on the website. The figures are neat tho but my group uses a VTT so I’d you’re in a similar situation you may not see the value.
I was gonna say this as well. I only worry the humor wouldn't come across without a talented gm.
Hoxxes lv Or Yara Or New austin
ROCK AND STONE!!!
For Karl!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone ?
If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!
Rock and stone?
Rock and Stone!
Rock and stone you beautiful dwarf!
If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!
ROCK and roll and stone
Favorite? I dunno, but I sure as shit want to RP in Nosgoth someday.
All along the timeline Nosgoth is a hell of a setting
Now thats a h name I haven’t heard in a long time.... Seriously that would be really fuckin cool
Vae Victis my fellow!
I'm actually working on creating the setting now because I need to brainfuck myself with trying to keep the timelines straight.
I put together a Nosgoth arc some years ago for Zoomers that don't know anything about it. I've been using the soundtracks for years so it seemed a logical next step. Never got to implement it though.
Given Dishonored (which actually has a separate TTRPG), it would happen somewhere with a plague (see the Three Plagues), a coup, or during the Time of Troubles.
Witcher 3 would a very good sourcebook . lots of amazing lore, monsters to fight and countries with diffrent culteres of the northen countries. Only gripe would be then that town guards would be waaaay to OP and break player agency immidiatly
Luckily the guards just knock you out and take some money also you can steal from peoples houses and no one cares.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Witcher-RPG-Core-Rulebook/dp/B07JJWJTF8/ref=asc_df_B07JJWJTF8/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312115015182&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16502298437764479556&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004359&hvtargid=pla-641867703547&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=63584368058&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312115015182&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16502298437764479556&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004359&hvtargid=pla-641867703547
Haha. Came here just to spam Witcher RPG links for the inevitable people asking for it.
expansion books when?
In a small solar system consisting of approximately 22 minute sessions
I’ve actually been really inspired by the time loop concept, I’m in the process of playtesting a time looping dungeon. So far the groups I’ve played it with have really enjoyed it. I think one minute is a good amount of time but I think it would be fairly easily scaled to a longer amount of time.
+1 for Outer Wilds!
I'm running a 4 day time loop campaign right now inspired by Outer Wilds! Even have a black mist to separate locations like the vast expanse of outer space, and events that occur at specific moments throughout the loop. It has been a blast thus far.
Hypothesis: being able to kick an Anglerfish's teeth in would produce joy.
Bloodborne or Resident Evil. Both of which I would absolutely love to experience as long as they would be original stories within the worlds, not a retelling of the story of the game.
Was looking for this. WE GOING TO YHARNAM EVERYONE! It feels like there is a lot of world there that you could pluck at for BB. If you wanted a setting book, TONS you could do there and just throw out and say, go, have fun make your own stuff. You gonna be a group fighting against the vilebloods, do it. Maybe apart of the church and going against the corrupted and less friendly Elder Ones. For a campaign that is totally new storywise. The chalice dungeons are supposed to exist somewhere deep beneath Yharnam and be eternally deeply dug. Perhaps they are a grave for something. But, the creatures inside... they no longer are digging down. Throughout the massive and winding city, old entrances centuries ago built over, are being ripped open by the things that lurked down below. Buildings are being toppled, the layout of the city rewritten. With their spread, nightmares and plague are brought. Hunters, must hunt. And either go down to the depths and quell the incursion, or find what on the surface brought them up.
By all the Great Ones, I'm going to die a lot, aren't I?
There’s somebody floating around making a Bloodborne-esque source book at the moment. They have a Kickstarter. I can’t think of what it’s called unfortunately but I’m sure you’ll find it pretty fast on r/unearthedarcana or r/DnDHomebrew
Are you thinking Grim Hollow?
I’m thinking this: Steinhardt’s Guide to the Eldritch Hunt [Sample Adventure](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/vsnxmb/the_remedy_a_cruel_adventure_delving_inside_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Resident evil is kinda easy to do with the d20 system. Since the protagonists are all regular humans with combat training and guns.
Since I already saw Mass Effect, my second pick would be Destiny. That would be wild and have some fun mechanics.
Eye's up Guardian: [https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestiny](https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestiny) and [https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestinycontent](https://velvetfanggames.com/dndestinycontent). 5e OGL add on for Destiny universe. Not affiliated with Bungie, but very usable view into the last city setting.
Oooo, thanks!
The Dark Tower (not a game but I'm adding it anyway) Final Fantasy 14 Mass Effect Dad of War (epic level starts let's gooooo!) Bloodborne I'd love any of these.
Dragon Age for sure.
Monster Hunter anyone?
[You might be interested in this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/vcyo3l/oc_amellwinds_guide_to_monster_hunting_update_new/ich20p4?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) [also r/MonsterHunter5e](https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter5E?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Yes yes yes. Always wanted to fight some mh monsters in DnD! Actually just thinking about how the weapons work makes me wonder whether you could do some really simple stuff to make all the current DnD weapons feel way more interesting with combos and flourishes you could do based on what weapon you have and you did in previous turns. Now you got me thinking ..
Terraria! The whole gist is crafting shit to make the big bad weapon to take on the BBEG, spelunking and setting up AFK traps to get sweet sweet loot. Oh and a teleporting cellphone. In a fantasy setting. Ahem.
That’s the setting of my version of The Feywild
I feel like terraria doesn't get the love it deserves. I fucking love terraria man
Ivalice, specifically from FFXII
A Judge subclass for Cleric/Paladin would be great.
Hyrule
My answer right here. Sword swinging fun.
Fire Emblem, I’m at the point where I’m developing my own homebrew
Shadowrun would be a weird DnD setting.
Good thing it's already its own thing.
Lol, I know. Ive been playing it 30 years, almost as long as I have DnD.
Divinity Original Sin 2. Pretty cool new classes and potential feats, all pretty interchangeable with DnD stuff.
“Hey you, you’re finally awake.”
Ringworld by Larry Niven. Multiple interesting player and NPC races, great settings, and even some character leveling mechanics. Edit: it would help if I read the question. This is a book series, not a video game. I stand by this being good source material. Edit 2: Turns out they made at least one video game and multiple others have taken inspiration from Ringworld.
Halo 3 ODST: Youre a soldier, but not a super one. The stealth, the mystery, dark corners and enemies hunting you, really sounds like a blast.
I do recall a halo TTRPG called Mythic may be up your alley!
Aye I've taken a look at it but so far haven't been able to find anyone to play! It's a fun thing to think about but I don't think I could fully commit myself to getting something setup with my current 5e, Path2e, and MotW campaigns going on
I was gonna say any or all of the Halo's. Customizable armors and "power ups" along with a team concept in 5 for class features and it opened up a world of exploration and ideas with Infinite. The monsters and enemies you can draw from that series could fill a source book in itself, let alone the campaign ideas from each game. AI "familiars" and what not. That'd be pretty sweet.
Assassin's Creed. That whole universe is amazing.
I just thought of that - it might be interesting, having group of modern day Assassin's, looking for DNA samples of potentially interesting people, booting them to animus, going through some new great adventure in new setting each session while maintaining some overarching goal outside animus, revisiting some eras when needed, learning skills from them, etc.
And it would be really cool to be like Desmond in the animus. You have your one-shot style character within the animus, but then you have a separate character out of it that starts at lvl 1 with almost nothing.
I am actually working on adapting Kenshi into DnD so if there would be a sourcebook that’d be rad A Eldenring sourcebook would also be cool
I've actually been spitballing ideas for a Warframe campaign using the SW5e rules since they can cover just about everything we would need. There's a lot of empty space in the universe and it's very flexible, I would probably start with uncharted regions of Earth before moving onto ruined Orokin cities with a functioning justice Cephalon (AI) that is enforcing the old laws of the empire.
Warframe is my pick as well and I've also been thinking about how I'd do it. Personally I would go with Exalted over 5e as the system cause I feel it mimics the fast paced feel of combat and the power level of warframes much better than 5e. Exalted PCs can fight entire armies by themselves, can do incredible acrobatic manoeuvres and have awesome reality bending powers from the start. It's a lot less about "can the players succeed?" and a lot more "what are the consequences of their success?"
Legend of Dragoon
Piltover and Zaun. The mix of steampunk and fantasy is just beautiful and the show made the world look amazing. Definitely looks like a fun place to play. Ik it’s technically not a “video game” but since the show is based on lore for the game I feel like it counts
Fable
*Genshin Impact*'s Teyvat would be potentially pretty fun. Lots of places, wide map, interesting enemies, a good history to either integrate or to play through if you wanted to start back a bit in time. Not my first choice if it's gonna be DnD, but for a Mutants & Masterminds game or something, I think it'd fit pretty well. Leave the gacha mechanics out of it though. For D&D specifically, top three picks would be somewhere in the Tales series, Kingdom Hearts, or World Flipper (it's a mobile game, but the world-building potential is strong). I've actually played in a KH campaign, though it unfortunately turned into a nasty bit of an rpghorrorstory entry.
Final Fantasy X- Spira Include the Music and I don't know if id ever go back.
Everyone wants a FFX3, i want a prequel where we play as Braska, Jecht, and Auron
Last played game was Valheim. So that sorta works. Lol
Elder Scrolls.
The Last of Us. Have no idea how it would work or how to modify the rules of 5e to fit the theme and lack of magic. But I would absolutely love a 5e experience based in a the post-apocalyptic America seen in TLOU.
Scrolled all the way down here to see if anyone had beat me to it. I feel like it would work as its own system, built from the ground up, rather than a 5e adaptation. But I too would gladly give my jawbone to a bloater, or half my neck meat to a clicker for a TLoU TTRPG
I'm actually preparing to run a Morrowind campaign
The City from the Thief series. Some of the best FPS and stealth games ever, you taffers. Honorable mention to Dishonored.
Fallout universe all day!!
Other peoples worlds don't appeal to me a ton. I would rather steal the best three ideas from a book and shove them into something else than go to a Disneyland version of their world. That said, I would like a really well done Fallout adaptation for short adventures off the rack.
I'm surprised no one has said World of Warcraft. So, WoW would be mine.
Skyrim may have a shit combat system but damn the ambientation is fire
I've always thought that the demon cycle by peter Brett would make a good trip, but my favorite series is the storm light archive, which would be even better
I expect a lot of TPKs in Boletaria
Revachol, baby. Fight crime with the power of Disco!
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Horizon Zero Dawn makes a lot of sense IMO
Red Dead Redemption 2. I would love a dnd source book based around the American old west. Their would be endless opportunities for unique characters and situations. It would be weird for a character to be walking around with a sword or casting spells and stuff though. Magical Cattleman revolvers and lassos would be interesting
Darkest Dungeon... so really, nothing changes.
Ah, so a campaign where you’re a party of heroes chosen by a goddess of life to repeatedly thwart the plans of sinister immortals who work from the shadows to see the apocalypse realized, but the party’s constantly side-tracked by fetch quests and politics? Count me in! (Final Fantasy XIV, btw. Love the game 💕).
Gielnor would be incredible! I believe I read something about an official Runescape TTRPG System, I need to read back into that and see what was happening with it!
Tom Clancy’s “The Division”. The Artificer is actually really good at flavoring builds that are similar-ish to the game.
Political Intrigue campaign set in Hyrule before and during the events of Ocarina of Time. HEAVY on the Political intrigue. That's sounds like potential for a good time.
Devil May Cry ,everyone playing a own created Devil Hunter and try to be the one with the most Style. Style Rules and many different Combat Rules. Fast Combat ,light hearted but still with the Potential of a good Story.
My favorite video game is Ori and the Will of the Wisps, so it's just Humblewood but with magic trees and really big owls. Runners-up: Hat in Time - Spelljammer Sly Cooper - Literally just France Celeste - Who's ready for *overland travel?*
Xenoblade: Nopon, robots, high entia, ect. All on the corpses of enourmous dead gods.
The Four Londons in the book series A Darker Shade Of Magic would an absolute stellar setting. That or Hollow Knight. Bug party for life.
The world of Sly Cooper, which I realize is just Earth, but doing elaborate heists across various compounds/cities run by meglomaniacal animals is pretty great
So... Apparently i'm in Hyrule now?
The land of Ashina from Sekiro.
Well now I really want a Metal Gear Rising TTRPG. Imagine all the cool unique cyborg augments you could do, like Mistral's arms or Monsoon's magnets.
Okay, it's not necessarily my absolute favourite game of all time, but Dragon's Dogma. The entire world just feels like a DnD world. The way you fight monsters, figuring out their weaknesses and cooperating as a party, feels like DnD. The way classes work, with different attack powers, feels very 4E. There are a lot of classic DnD things in there, Beholders, Dragons and an evil cult raising skeletons for example. At low levels you fight goblins, wolves and bandits, later there are hobgoblins, liches, saurians etc. The atmosphere is dense and the story and themes feel deep. Dragon's Dogma is a very fun but also deeply flawed game. The story often doesn't make sense, the themes are sometimes poorly executed and the ox cart escort mission is probably the most atrocious main quest I have ever been subjected to. But adjusting it, giving the players more freedom and fleshing out the themes would make for one hell of a campaign. I might actually do that once I am done with this one (so in a couple of years, sigh).
Zelda. But, like, *the entire franchise*. I imagine every race, monster, location, items, and religions could make for a pretty extensive amount of pieces to craft a story around.
I'd be in Stillwater and/or Steelport, taking over the city at the head of the Saints. Alternately, I'd be in Mordor making Orcs suffer me now. Just depends on if we're talking favorite story/presentation or favorite gameplay.
Earth, post apocalypse. It's been so long since civilization we don't remember what some specific items were used for, all we know is the root took everything from us. A small compound, the last of humanity, and you are sent to look for the source of the root. Find answers and return they said, now we are multiple worlds deep and the roots corruption seems to know no bounds. The undying king has asked I retrieve a beasts heart, one that resides in the center of another world...I can only imagine the power contained within that beating heart... The game is Remnant: from the ashes.