We’ve seen tabletop games get video game spin-offs (notably Warhammer and DnD) in the past, and we’ll see more of it in the future. I can’t think of too many cases of the opposite happening.
If you’ve got an example or two of that, you’re welcome to mention them. That being said, I’d like to focus on games that could be translated into the tabletop RPG medium, or another type of tabletop game if you can justify it. What’s game you think would work? Got any specific ideas about the system?
Personally, I’d love to see the Endless Universe get a tabletop translation. Being a 4X series, there’s plenty of races to choose from, and a fair amount of specialties different folks can have. Maybe it would work like Starfinder or Eclipse Phase, but simpler.
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People may have absolutely hated Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (that’s the playing card one), but honestly, I kinda loved it.. For the first half. Anyway, here’s how I imagine it. First, you choose, or randomly draw a card from the “Boss deck”. There are only 13 cards in this deck, one for each member of Organization XIII (possibly more if you want to factor in the True Organization, or possibly even heroes). Whoever the boss is, they’ll apply various bonuses to the baddies. For instance, Xemnas could give all Nobody type enemies a health buff. There could also be arena cards that you have to draw that also add modifiers, but that could make things [i]too[/i] randomized. It could be the boss applues certain benefits to enemies while the stage applies benefits to you? Anyway, then you’d roll a specialized dice that determines how many enemies you fight (1-3). You’d draw whatever you roll from the Enemy Deck, and place them fave up on the field. This would prpbably consist of Heartless and Nobodies, but like the Boss Deck, you could include Dream Eaters and Unversed in here if you wanted. They’d need a specialized dice, though, because.. Each enemy would have 2-5 attacks listed on the card. You’d have a dice called the “Enemy Dice” that you roll to determine their attack. There’s be 1-4 on the dice, a Heartless symbol and a Nobody symbol. Whatever number you roll determines what attack that enemy does. If you roll higher than the number attack they have, you choose their highest numbered attack. All Heartless have a Heartless attack, too, and all Nobodies have a Nobody attack. Roll 1-4; Enemy acts on corresponding number Roll Heartless; Heartless enemy uses its Heartless attack. No attack for Nobodies. Roll Nobody; Nobody enemy uses its Nobody attack. No attack for Heartless. Here’s an example of how an attack might look; “[3] Stock a 3 Token. If three cards are stocked, use a Sleight, that deals (n) damage.” A player’s deck will consist of Attack, Utility, Magic, and Friend cards. -Attack, and Magic deal damage to enemies. While attack deals consistent damage, however, Magic will deal extra/less depending on enemy weaknesses & resistances. -Utility can perform a variety of effects. -Friend cards..? I dunno. In game they were just extra attacks, but that’d be kinda boring. Maybe they act like enemy cards, but on your side? You can also “Stock” up to 3 cards to use Sleights. I’m not sure how to regulate what sleights you can or can’t use, though, or how to keep track of them. Maybe you can choose up to 3 at the start of the game? In any case, if you can’t perform a special sleight, it simply plays all 3 cards at once. Crucially, there’d be a number system guiding attacks. Your attacks would be numbered 1-9, and the higher attack cancels the lower one. There are also 0 cards, which ensure your attacks go off, but don’t stop enemy attacks. How a player’s turn usually goes; Phase 0: -Roll dice, and place [x] amount of enemies (once per battle) -Shuffle action deck (once per battle) Phase 1: -Draw a card -Stock up to (3) cards -Play any Utility cards you want to play Phase 2: -Choose attack (Sleights have a 1-turn cooldown after being Stocked) -Roll Enemy Dice -Higher number wins, and deals damage, lower number attack is cancelled. -Repeat for each enemy Phase 3: -Any additional effects (like poison) in place take affect If you lower the enemy HP to 0 you win. If your HP hits 0 you lose. Each enemy type would drop a set amount of “Munny” which you could spend in between fights to draw a card from the “Equipment Deck”, which you can then add to your main deck. After a certain amount of fights (13?) you’d fight that boss you chose at the beginning. Win, and you beat the game! The only problem I see is how to ensure you don’t get all the super powerful enemies right off the bat.
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Super smash bros, but as a turn-based, card chosen battle.
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Mario kart. Roll the dice to move with special tiles granting items to use against other players and can have tons of different boards to play on as the tracks. Fun and competitive and can have 2-8 players.
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Fable could work.
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I’d like Fire Emblem.
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XCOM, actually I've got a better idea... A warhammer scale titanfall tabletop game
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Uncharted
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Division survival dlc
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Here's a list of videogame based boardgames I came up with off the top of my head... Civilization Dark Souls Doom Gears of War Starcraft Witcher World of Warcraft X-Com
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Edited by LahDsai: 2/9/2019 2:40:21 AM[i]Disgaea[/i] comes to mind. I'd say [i]Final Fantasy Tactics[/i] but you'd have to keep track of character speeds to determine who goes when, which could be a bit of a hassle. [Edit:] [i]Valkyria Chronicles[/i] would be another amazing tabletop game. Hell, it could practically go unchanged.
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Edited by FdYAcsoyPKN83gLE: 2/9/2019 5:11:27 AMIDK...
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I think Halo Wars would make for a good Warhammer 40K style tabletop. Then again I guess you could say that with a lot of RTS games.
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Dark Souls: The Board Game is awesome. It's also a fantastic realisation of the games. It very much feels like the same game. As for another game that could work as a tabletop, I think RPGs are the best starting point - Darkest Dungeon in particular could work well. Also, it's not an RPG, but Luigi's Mansion could make a good tabletop.
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I'm a big board game fan. Destiny, actually. I would like to see that.
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Fallout has a lot of potential because of the setting
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Oh oh! Neverwinter Nights would be perfect as a table top!
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Lets be honest, you could make nearly any game work as a tabletop game.
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Pretty much any RPG into a Table Top RPG. Honestly, you could just take any existing system and just reflavor everything to fit the setting. A friend and I talked about making Borderlands with the Stars Without Number system. Don't remember why that specific system or how much we actually did...
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The Dark Souls board game is really fun. I don’t think it’s exactly what you mean, but I’d like to see a card game based on Steven Universe: Save the Light’s gameplay mechanics. I wouldn’t care if it’s SU specifically, just the mechanics. For instance, you’d get 5 Star Points every turn, which’d fuel your characters’ attacks, and then you’d have item cards that take 0. Not sure how they could work in the friendship gauge, though.
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There's supposed to be an Overwatch board game coming out in the same vein as Aristiea. I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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Uno would make a great tabletop game. Then you wouldn’t need webcams to show each other your dicks.