Has anyone tried doing this? Or tried writing up an idea in how to do this....and mix it more into DnD with less gunslinging and just having it be weird? Or should I use a different system? I wrote my own version of basically the bare bones of the plot and mechanics of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to make a campaign that was run at a game store by multiple people at multiple tables that was super successful...I feel like Dark Tower could work...maybe it is just wishful thinking...those books are so crazy and so much-traveling-and other worlds....maybe too many!
I think DnD's whole system would fit rather poorly into Dark Tower with the systemic power/magic levels being so high, races and classes being strongly built-in etc. You could try to capture the feeling, but other than that it would be very different.
You said mix it into DnD. I think this is the way to go. Embrace the Fusion, create a unique world of "D&D Meets the Dark Tower", rather than trying to fit either into either. :)
You asked about other systems. "Savage Worlds - Deadlands" is an official setting/setting specific mod of Savage Worlds, designed for Weird West / Dark Fantasy Western. I think the feeling and setting is very similar to the Dark Tower, so it would require very little (if any) converting/homebrewing.
I'm running one now and it's very fun! Started the adventure on the beach with a "drawing of 5" and a fight for survival against lobstrocities ... built adventures around the key parts of the book series and included some specific foes (wolves of the Calah, vampiric "Crimson Soldiers", Randall Flagg etc.) and allowed players to build a gunslinger character of sorts but mostly kept to the D&D 5e rules. Some challenges with how to get them from one arc to the next but dreams and dimensional portals powered by magic glass orbs have mostly done the trick
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I think DnD's whole system would fit rather poorly into Dark Tower with the systemic power/magic levels being so high, races and classes being strongly built-in etc.
You could try to capture the feeling, but other than that it would be very different.
You said mix it into DnD. I think this is the way to go. Embrace the Fusion, create a unique world of "D&D Meets the Dark Tower", rather than trying to fit either into either. :)
You asked about other systems. "Savage Worlds - Deadlands" is an official setting/setting specific mod of Savage Worlds, designed for Weird West / Dark Fantasy Western. I think the feeling and setting is very similar to the Dark Tower, so it would require very little (if any) converting/homebrewing.
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I'm running one now and it's very fun! Started the adventure on the beach with a "drawing of 5" and a fight for survival against lobstrocities ... built adventures around the key parts of the book series and included some specific foes (wolves of the Calah, vampiric "Crimson Soldiers", Randall Flagg etc.) and allowed players to build a gunslinger character of sorts but mostly kept to the D&D 5e rules. Some challenges with how to get them from one arc to the next but dreams and dimensional portals powered by magic glass orbs have mostly done the trick