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[5e] What would you like to see officially converted?

Started by The Butcher, August 20, 2014, 08:21:33 PM

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The Butcher

August 20, 2014, 08:21:33 PM
Yeah, this is me climbing aboard the 5e bandwagon.

I'd like to see a stronghold and domain endgame thingie because I'm a sucker for this stuff. Birthright optional. Birthright was a fantastic setting but I prefer my kingdoms earned.

Dark Sun, pre-Prism Pentad, of course. It happened for 4e so there's plenty of hope.

And whatever settings and adventures they publish, here's hoping they actually put out game-table-ready stuff instead of novel canon guides decorated with crunchy bits.

Sacrosanct

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August 20, 2014, 08:49:11 PM
Initially I'm thinking of AD&D stuff, but then I realized that it's really super easy just to convert them myself.  But if given a wish list:

Ravenloft (I never got a chance to play I6, and would like to with 5e)
Night Below (same as above)
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Necrozius

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August 20, 2014, 08:55:18 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;781383Ravenloft (I never got a chance to play I6, and would like to with 5e)

Seconding this. My head would explode (in a good way) if they re-hired Stephen Fabian to do the artwork.

AaronBrown99

#3
August 20, 2014, 09:09:20 PM
I loved playing (DMing, actually) Al-Quadim, it would be a welcome conversion.
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Saplatt

#4
August 20, 2014, 09:31:32 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;781383Initially I'm thinking of AD&D stuff, but then I realized that it's really super easy just to convert them myself.  ...

Same here. And I may very well do exactly that. Though the other thing that's tempting me are some of the modules for the Companion rules for BECMI: Test of the Warlords, Death's Ride, Sabre River , Earthshaker, The Endless Stair, Where Chaos Reigns and maybe Legacy of Blood.

I could never pry my old group away from AD&D to give any of these a try with BECMI, and they are all just too high a level for me to manage with 3.x, but I think I could pull them off in 5E.

Come to think of it, I may never need to buy another adventure module.

JeremyR

#5
August 20, 2014, 10:19:55 PM
Instead of ruining the past, why not make new stuff?

danskmacabre

#6
August 20, 2014, 10:30:13 PM
I would love to see Spelljammer converted to 5th Ed.

Larsdangly

#7
August 20, 2014, 11:05:06 PM
New good material will be best. But, in response to the OOP, my own sandbox campaign I'm starting up focuses on the 1E pastel modules (plus a few BD&D classics). Basically, I created a ~100,000 square mile setting chock-a-block full of dungeons and other adventure sites (roughly half old modules and half my own new stuff), and rounded it out with diverse wandering encounter and rumor tables. The idea is that players can simply walk out the door and find their own way to any number of major adventures. The steading of the hill giant chief looks a little different when you imagine a group a 1st level characters may well wander up to its gates...

Omega

#8
August 21, 2014, 02:25:09 AM
Quote from: danskmacabre;781400I would love to see Spelljammer converted to 5th Ed.

I'd like to see Spelljammer done in 5e and not suck absolutely like the half-assed 3e magazine try.

I know they are going to do Gamma World. Please god dont botch the setting a third time!!!

Id like to see Boot Hill done in 5e.

One Horse Town

#9
August 21, 2014, 03:48:36 AM
I agree with you on Birthright.

Other than that, i'd prefer them to start releasing new stuff, not re-hashes of previous material. I'm not holding my breath though, as i guess that can be seen as a higher risk strategy.

jibbajibba

#10
August 21, 2014, 03:59:43 AM
Don't revisit old settings. By all means do reprints of the old stuff most of it won't change anyway.

I would look to do 3 things

i) Brand New stuff.
ii) MtG plane ports - Ravinca, Innistraad, Mirrodin woudl all be great D&D settings
iii) Fictional tie ins but under the D&D brand not a new system
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#11
August 21, 2014, 06:25:00 AM
Okay, if the bandwagon is about new stuff, then I'd like a new Gothic Horror setting to fill Ravenloft's shoes.

I'd also like it to be set in pseudo-18th or 19th century Europe, but whatever.

Opaopajr

#12
August 21, 2014, 07:08:10 AM
Birthright, definitely. Ravenloft and Dark Sun, too.

Oddly, Hollow World, or something akin. There was a hefty bit of zany in there, but enough hex crawl and setting coherence for the cultural isolation that it. just. might. work. Like the Underdark, but not.

Something with fun human factionalism at the fore. Like Lankhmar or Jakandor.

Savage Coast, fun like Hollow World because the setting heavily affects the players as well. Gotta have special metal touch your skin or get mutated! :)

Somewhere else on Forgotten Realms, like Ama Basin, or Katashaka, or Anchorômé, or Land of Flying Monkeys! Who doesn't want to game in the land of flying monkeys? That's like Tiger-headed Opium Nightmare + LSD! It has to be fun!
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#13
August 21, 2014, 07:09:00 AM
Quote from: Necrozius;781452Okay, if the bandwagon is about new stuff, then I'd like a new Gothic Horror setting to fill Ravenloft's shoes.

I'd also like it to be set in pseudo-18th or 19th century Europe, but whatever.

So you want a reboot of Ravenloft's subsetting, Masque of the Red Death. I would too. :)
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August 21, 2014, 08:19:55 AM
Quote from: Opaopajr;781460So you want a reboot of Ravenloft's subsetting, Masque of the Red Death. I would too. :)

Nah its Inistrad from MtG  (yes its llike Revenloft :) )





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