Friday, July 13, 2018

Kung-Fu Post-Apocalyptic Ravenloft

I have enjoyed Into the Badlands on AMC much more than I thought first saw advertisements for it. The fight scenes are well choreographed (much better than Marvel's Iron Fist) and it's vaguely Western post-Apocalyptic setting is more intriguing than expected.

Anyway, watching Into the Badlands the other night, I thought it not be cool in a mashup with Ravenloft. Perhaps it was the hint of 19th-Century that made me think of it, but you could replace Into the Badlands' barons with Ravenloft's Dark Lords and stir in some Vampire Hunter D seasoning.

This seems like it might work particularly well in 5e where the greater number of character powers/abilities would be easy to translate to a wuxia sort of thing.

This is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but it has martial arts, 19th Century stylings, and supernatural stuff too

2 comments:

James Mishler said...

I'm running a 5E D&D Darkstalkers one-on-one with my wife right now. Its based mostly on the OVA with a dash of the cartoon series and a bit more informed back from the games themselves, plus a slurp of Vampire Hunter D.

The OVA had tech levels all over the place, from 16th century to 20th century, so that is what we are going with, with a baseline around early Victorian era... so this fits right in...

And now you have made me want to see Into the Badlands...

Trey said...

That sounds cool! Yeah, give Into the Badlands a shot. I think you'll like it.