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Oct 14, 2012 -- 11:48AM, Maelphaxerazz wrote:

Games Workshop is a company that makes tabletop wargames, which is a very comparable business to WotC's. Their best-selling product is Warhammer 40000, and several popular video games have been made based on it: the Dawn of War series of Real Time Strategy games, and the first person shooter Space Marine. I play WH40k sometimes, and one thing I noted was that a lot of new players got into the wargame because of the video games. Wizards of the Coast could do the same thing with their own IP.

That's not anything new, of course. There have been a lot of video games based on D&D in the past. However, one thing that can be noted is that while the video games based on D&D have had mechanics similar to D&D's, Dawn of War and Space Marine share no mechanics with the tabletop game. They only share the setting. Yet they still brought people to the tabletop by exposing it to the mainstream video game audience, and WotC could take advantage of this. They could liscense their settings to one or two game studios right now, so that when the games are finished, so will 5th edition. It could prove a more effective way to get publicity than simple advertising ever could be.

For example, wouldn't it be awesome to have an RTS of the Blood War? There has been a lull in good new RTS games recently, and over the years the Hordes of the Abyss and the Legions of Hell have gotten a lot of setting and character development and artwork which would give the game its own unique feel. It would sell on its own merit, and also have the D&D logo printed on it to get people to look into the game.

Another idea would be a dungeon delving Action-Adventure, kind of like Diablo but with the aesthetic of Eberron, and having you control a whole party of adventurers working together rather than a single character. Eberron's look has often been chided as "video gamey", which in this case is perfect: the magitech and the exotic look would be very eye-catching on the computer screen.

What do you think? Is it a good idea? Are there any video games you'd like to see in D&D's settings? Also, if you have any other ideas for getting D&D to the wider world, feel free to suggest them also.

I think you left out the biggest Videogame influenced by Gamesworkshop- if I'm not mistaken Warcraft was originally meant to be a takeoff from warhammer but something happened during development and Blizz decided to take the mechanics they'd been working on and work on their own IP (azeroth).  So All of you who hate inclusion of WoW concepts in DnD blame Games Workshop:P

(don't have a link to this and can't remember where I saw it - even if i'm completely wrong it's a good rumour:P)
 

Oct 14, 2012 -- 11:57AM, thecasualoblivion wrote:

Make a 4E translation/remake of Curse of the Azure Bonds

I would love to see this done. I played that game so many times. Even ripped it off for one of my one D&D games. Just changed a few of the groups and made the bonds crimson instead of azure. My favorite part was when the players finished making their characters, couple of hours to do so, and I had them drowned in a hurricane. The expressions were great. There was even sputtering. Then the PCs woke up with these Crimson Bonds. 
Anyway....
Also, I would completely love an Eberron set Baldur's Gate style game. Especially with the release of the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition coming out. Oooo, a Minsc-like Warforged complete with miniture giant space hamster. hehehe