Would a Everywhen supplement full of D&D characters and tropes be a popular seller? Now personally I have no interest in such a setting book, but I wonder if an EW supplement that went ‘full bore Tolkien’ would be very popular.

Over the years I’ve repeatedly seen requests for help in adding D&D creatures and monsters to BoL. It started back in the days of Legendary Edition, when D&D 3.5 was getting very heavy with rules bloat and while players were happy, GMs were getting tired of the amount of prep required to run a game. There were lots of moans about stat blocks, I seem to recall. The simple and elegant rules of BoL appealed to GMs, but their players still wanted to play in the typical D&D universe.

The mini setting ‘The Broken Seal of Astarath’ in the Everywhen core rule book includes rules for elf, dwarf, human, ogre, orc and goblin characters and is compatible with BoL Mythic. However it is a fairly basic mini setting that has a very specific set up of everyone on both sides of the ‘good’/’evil’ divide banding together to fight a demonic threat to the whole world. Not very D&D and not very Tolkien.

I would say there is enough there to get you started and you just need to go through your D&D books and translate what you need – but that might be too much work for some people (busy lives, work pressures, children, etc.)

I think both BRP and All Flesh Must Be Eaten came out with supplements to recreate that D&D experience with their specific rule sets, although I’m not sure how well those supplements sold.

What do you think? Would you snap up such a product?

[In the interests of full disclosure I’ve never run or played in even a single session of any version of D&D. And while I know D&D has moved beyond the trad dungeon, I’ve always thought that ‘the dungeon’ was the silliest idea ever! I have no dog in this fight – I’m just curious on your thoughts. Personally I think such a supplement might sell very well.]

Last edited by Gruntfuttock (12/03/2020 12:34 pm)