Other D&D Campaign worlds/universes do you think that Hasbro/WotC should bring back?
Sept 3, 2023 0:00:42 GMT
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Post by Cyberstrike on Sept 3, 2023 0:00:42 GMT
With the success of Baldur's Gate III and the popularity of livestreaming real live D&D TTRPG adventures the setting most popular is the Forgotten Realms but there are/were settings that maybe should be brought back as video games or in TTRPG format. And before you ask "How come you didn't mention Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Nights those games were set in the same universe as Baldur's Gate series. I'm talking about the other campaign settings/worlds/universes that used to make up a lot of D&D material.
1) The Dragonlance Saga This universe is kind of Forgotten Realms red-head step brother. There were 9 gods then a extremely smart but sickly and extremely powerful mage went back in time and became a god to kill the other gods and then his strong, loving, but nowhere near as smart warrior twin brother goes back in time to stop him, then the long lost and forgotten creator god returns and the other gods are forced to leave and suddenly evil dragons take over and become the Dragon Overlords and a new order of paladins that are lawful evil are formed to combat a weakened good order of paladins. This universe was my first entry to D&D under the second edition rules (aka AD&D) the 10 novels that cover most of the backstory are filled with some great characters and twists and turns and introduces 2 generations of heroes. IMHO Dragon Age is probably the closest video game series to capture it's feeling, but I still would like to return to the official Dragonlance Universe in a video game.
2) Ravenloft is kind of a gothic version of Planescape basically the Dread Lords are powerful evil beings ( like a vampire, a lich, a mummy, and so on) that are taken from their worlds and given domains to rule but they can never leave or even cross the border into other Dread Lords' domains which is often as much as a torment for them as being trapped in their domains. In their domains however they are basically demi-gods and the people who trapped in their domains are also prisoners. This a way to introduce players to other D&D without the weirdness of Planescape and IMHO the best Ravenloft are gothic horror tragedies. There was a PS1 fighting game set in it.
3) Dark Sun is a brutal post apocalyptic fantasy world where water is scare, telepathic and telekinetic creatures are not uncommon. The world is ruled by a former order of extremely powerful evil mages who now hate each other and are trying to turn themselves into dragons and each rule a city-state, except there is one of the mages who turned his back on evil and became a Preserver, a good mage and is turning into an angelic butterfly. Magic in this realm is basically blood magic with the Defilers (the evil wizard kings) who take all the life force regardless if they need it or not while the Preservers are good mages who only take the life force they need to cast a spell and no more. This universe also has a race of half-human/half dwarves called Muls that are forced to be either slaves and/or gladiators and in the mountains are savage hang-gliding cannibal halflings some of them try to protect the last sea with a telepathic shark/octopus creature in it. Now tell me there isn't a great video game in that universe.
4) Planescape I feel like this is kind of cheating because I think it's a safe bet with the success of BG3 that sequel to Planescape: Torment will probably get made by someone sooner or later, and remember that back in the day Planescape: Torment got a lot of critical acclaim and some said it was better than BG1, BG2, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights 1 and Neverwinter Nights 2 (and all of them are set in the Forgotten Realms Universe). Even though I still find this setting is just too weird for me, but with the popularity of multiverses in pop media I could see this as a way to allow people try out some of the other D&D universes.
2) Ravenloft is kind of a gothic version of Planescape basically the Dread Lords are powerful evil beings ( like a vampire, a lich, a mummy, and so on) that are taken from their worlds and given domains to rule but they can never leave or even cross the border into other Dread Lords' domains which is often as much as a torment for them as being trapped in their domains. In their domains however they are basically demi-gods and the people who trapped in their domains are also prisoners. This a way to introduce players to other D&D without the weirdness of Planescape and IMHO the best Ravenloft are gothic horror tragedies. There was a PS1 fighting game set in it.
3) Dark Sun is a brutal post apocalyptic fantasy world where water is scare, telepathic and telekinetic creatures are not uncommon. The world is ruled by a former order of extremely powerful evil mages who now hate each other and are trying to turn themselves into dragons and each rule a city-state, except there is one of the mages who turned his back on evil and became a Preserver, a good mage and is turning into an angelic butterfly. Magic in this realm is basically blood magic with the Defilers (the evil wizard kings) who take all the life force regardless if they need it or not while the Preservers are good mages who only take the life force they need to cast a spell and no more. This universe also has a race of half-human/half dwarves called Muls that are forced to be either slaves and/or gladiators and in the mountains are savage hang-gliding cannibal halflings some of them try to protect the last sea with a telepathic shark/octopus creature in it. Now tell me there isn't a great video game in that universe.
4) Planescape I feel like this is kind of cheating because I think it's a safe bet with the success of BG3 that sequel to Planescape: Torment will probably get made by someone sooner or later, and remember that back in the day Planescape: Torment got a lot of critical acclaim and some said it was better than BG1, BG2, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights 1 and Neverwinter Nights 2 (and all of them are set in the Forgotten Realms Universe). Even though I still find this setting is just too weird for me, but with the popularity of multiverses in pop media I could see this as a way to allow people try out some of the other D&D universes.
5) The Council of Wyrms a setting where you a play either good or neutral dragon and have adventures as a dragon and getting involved deal with dragon politics.
Are there some of you that think a video game set in Dragonlance, Dark Sun, or The Council of Wyrms settings would be cool or would like to play Planescape: Torment 2 or an actual Ravenloft RPG (the fighting game sucked IMHO) or maybe some new table top adventures, or reprint the original novels or comics and have some new ones? Or bring back some of old settings/worlds/universes and campaigns in 5E?
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