During the Disney Pixar’s Onward World Premiere, a statement made both Avengers and Dungeons and Dragons fans exult. Let’s start by saying that the phrase, told by Tom Holland (our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man), does not concern something already established, but a strong desire of some of the members of the most famous superhero team in the world.
To IGN‘s microphones, Tom said he never role-played; but, talking about it with Chris Pratt (the charming Star-Lord), the desire to play a session of Dungeons & Dragons with the cast of the Avengers emerged. The idea would be to register and upload it, but here are the exact statements made by Tom when asked if he had ever tried a RPG:
I haven’t, no, but Chris and I have been talking about setting up an Avengers D&D session, which would be amazing. We actually want to like film it, because it would be really fun. Not livestream it, because I don’t do…is this live? It is live! Oh ok, I’m really stressed now.
Tom Holland
A game session with the two of them, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and maybe other cast members could definitely be spectacular; it could redefine the meaning of “Avengers, assemble”!
Avengers and Dungeons and Dragons: straddling fantasy and reality
As RPG lovers we let our imagination fly; although nothing has been said about it, we have the strong feeling that, if it should happen, it would be with D&D5e. Once again this system demonstrates how its greater simplicity compared to previous editions allows new people to get closer to role-playing.
We are also curious to find out if it will be an attempt to bring the same protagonists of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the game system or not. Here we are more likely to think that it won’t be so. The system actually has a personalization system too tight to be able to recreate the powers of characters like Iron Man. We are therefore more inclined to think that the actors will have different characters (if not completely disconnected) from the MCU superheroes. If, on the other hand, they were really characters linked to those present in the films, we could have the opportunity to discover some unpublished background.
Maybe this session will never happen or maybe it will be the pretext to create even a collaboration between these two narrative universes. If that causes enough enthusiasm, maybe Wizards of the Coast will decide to create an Avengers-themed starter set for Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition; after all the same happened for Stranger Things and Rick and Morty.
