Best choice for multiversal DND adventure?

dune, the vvitch, alien(s), SCP, Conan, predator, cabin in the woods,  bioshock, pizza tower, devil may cry, hollow knight, deltarune/Undertale, fallout, rain world, gorn, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, terminator, ihnmaims, the last of us

*there were some other suggestions if you want to put them*

*Cuphead, TADC, gaslight district, TOH, and some others*

I can't edit the poll.

The most important factors in making a decision to do an adventure in a non-D&D IP are (1) whether your players would have fun with the setting, (2)  player familiarity with the setting, (3) difficulty of adapting the setting to D&D, and (4) depth of the setting’s lore as compared to the size of the adventure you are going to run.  Many of those are questions that can really only be answered by an individual DM deciding for their group, not via an internet poll.

To take a few examples from your list to illustrate the kind of thought process to apply:

Dune is a popular series right now, so it likely hits the first point of being something players might want to explore.  For the second point, even if they have only seen the films, that gives them sufficient familiarity with the setting to get something out of it.  For the fourth, the base novel Dune has a lot of lore that can be built on… and there are (frankly terrible and devaluing to the original) sequels with more information to build on.

Where you run into a problem is point three. D&D heavily relies on spells and magic items - and while Dune is arguably more a fantasy novel than a science fiction one, and there are some elements of magic, its combat system is not magically based (intentionally so, to add a bit of a foil to all the mysticism in the rest of the series).  This is likely a world another game would be better suited to adapt.

Holy Grail is another one that likely fails at point 3, but for very different reasons.  It is one that has the fantasy elements baked in, and some “magical” weapons established in the film. But Holy Grail is a vibe of Python’s surrealist humor.  Adapting that humor, without just quoting the lines from the film, will be difficult to do.  When adapting an IP, you want to actually make something new your players can explore - and Holy Grail really more lends itself to retracing the same ground.

Conan, on the other hand, likely hits a lot of the right vibes, so you can assume point one is likely satisfied - which makes sense, since the 1930s novels and stories are a major influence on D&D.  On point two, most players may not have a deep familiarity with the underlying books, but they might have seen the movies and, even if not, might have a generic understanding from basic pop culture knowledge. The setting would not be hard to adapt - again, D&D was a partial adaptation of it in the first place. Finally, there are a number of great writings set in that universe, giving lots of different things to work with.  There even is an official Conan D&D adventure published in 1984 and a Red Sonja adventure from 1986, both set in the Hyborian Age.

That kind of thought process is what I would go through when deciding which IP to use - you should do the same for any you are interested in, basing the conclusions not on internet polls, but on your target audience. 

It's for a forum with a cruise that goes to different universes.

Of the ones you listed Conan would probably be the least effort to adapt. Most of the rest are quite the genre mismatch, though you can get close in feel. Terminator for example is largely a slasher film with a relentless and unkillable monster - you can get a close feel by having the party stalked by an overwhelmingly powerful construct that they have to evade or slow down until they can get to an environmental hazard strong enough to take it out. (Think Mr. X from Resident Evil as another inspiration.) I think that would work best as the The Dragon to some broader threat however.

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Of the ones you listed Conan would probably be the least effort to adapt. Most of the rest are quite the genre mismatch, though you can get close in feel. Terminator for example is largely a slasher film with a relentless and unkillable monster - you can get a close feel by having the party stalked by an overwhelmingly powerful construct that they have to evade or slow down until they can get to an environmental hazard strong enough to take it out. (Think Mr. X from Resident Evil as another inspiration.) I think that would work best as the The Dragon to some broader threat however.

It's for a forum with a cruise that goes to different universes. 

-- Gooberito

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Of the ones you listed Conan would probably be the least effort to adapt. Most of the rest are quite the genre mismatch, though you can get close in feel. Terminator for example is largely a slasher film with a relentless and unkillable monster - you can get a close feel by having the party stalked by an overwhelmingly powerful construct that they have to evade or slow down until they can get to an environmental hazard strong enough to take it out. (Think Mr. X from Resident Evil as another inspiration.) I think that would work best as the The Dragon to some broader threat however.

It's for a forum with a cruise that goes to different universes. 

-- Gooberito

 
I generally do not mind if I put effort into a post trying to help someone and they dismiss entirely valid feedback.  However, I do mind when someone else takes the time to give useful feedback and they are casually dismissed.  The fact that you used the same non-answer to both posts, and, frankly, rather rudely uses the quote option as if you thought the first post was meritorious, however, is extremely problematic.

Here is the reality you are ignoring - it does not matter that you are planning on doing something on the forums; it does not matter that you are doing something on a multiversal cruise.  Your opening post only asked about DND, and the feedback you got is still relevant.

You should absolutely find content the players will like; should absolutely choose content that works well with the rules of D&D, as both Psyren and myself pointed out. That is true regardless of what you are doing in D&D - be it a single adventure or a mini portion of a multi-world adventure. Each world you travel to you should ask the same question - “would this work well for D&D?” and try to stick mostly to worlds that will… or at least put extra effort into adapting D&D to that world.

And, perhaps, next time you ask for feedback, perhaps try being more receptive to it. What you did here was decidedly in poor taste. I am not sure if that was your intention - but it was your effect - and I hope you learn from this experience. 

Uhhhhhh creator of this adventure here. Thank you for your opinions, and I believe we were at fault here for not explaining more of what was going on. Goobertio made a poll for my thread because I didn’t… idk why… but basically it’s just a roleplay thread. A tavern. Like a ton of Adohands. Sorta what goes on here is more rp than combat, and I’m just trying to figure out who wants to do what because these guys are actually my players. 

Prolly sounds stupid. 

But I really like these guys and I like playing with them.

My vote is ToH, Hollowknight/silksong, deltarune, the last of us, or ATLA/TLOK

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My vote is ToH, Hollowknight/silksong, deltarune, the last of us, or ATLA/TLOK

 Ooh, I actually do know ATLA and ToH :3 

Gravity Falls could be cool too

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Gravity Falls could be cool too

 

 Omg YES and like teen titans or smth

we could also do some dead threads. universe smorgasbord, woodwitch way, etc.

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we could also do some dead threads. universe smorgasbord, woodwitch way, etc.

 

 I just made a smorgasbord copy… 

Waow 

I dunno man, I have an addiction to making threads.