For me Dark Sun would just rustle my jimmies. The gritty Mad Max style word mixed with the intensity of social issues that are often hard to talk about makes it the GoT of the D&D world.
If it was similar to swordcoast my vote is toss the manuscript in the garbage and don't publish anything. It makes no sense to publish a quick glimpse of a setting without having the actual campaign guides to start from. Granted I'm lucky and can go back to my 3rd and 4th stuff, but I feel like sword coast is too brief for my liking.
If it was similar to swordcoast my vote is toss the manuscript in the garbage and don't publish anything. It makes no sense to publish a quick glimpse of a setting without having the actual campaign guides to start from. Granted I'm lucky and can go back to my 3rd and 4th stuff, but I feel like sword coast is too brief for my liking.
See when 5e came out it lowered the price point of the 4e books so I dropped way to much money on completing my 4e collection. So now if in 5e I want to take my players to the Feywild I have my book on that plus whatever 5e books say.
If it was similar to swordcoast my vote is toss the manuscript in the garbage and don't publish anything. It makes no sense to publish a quick glimpse of a setting without having the actual campaign guides to start from. Granted I'm lucky and can go back to my 3rd and 4th stuff, but I feel like sword coast is too brief for my liking.
See when 5e came out it lowered the price point of the 4e books so I dropped way to much money on completing my 4e collection. So now if in 5e I want to take my players to the Feywild I have my book on that plus whatever 5e books say.
And I don't think that book even needs an update, although a new guide to the planes could give newer/updated/more info on the Feywild and it's powers and factions, locales, etc.
Not only is Heroes of The Feywild really, really, good, most of the book is edition agnostic setting information.
No, not Starpather or Dragonfinder or Spellstar or whatever's next.
Just... just Spelljammer. Official Spelljammer material with an all updated timeline or some explanation for a lost history to discover after the dark age of spelljamming (post 2e, that is).
No changes to remove the weird oddball things, no changes to make it more sci-fi, none of the opposite, either.
No, not Starpather or Dragonfinder or Spellstar or whatever's next.
Just... just Spelljammer. Official Spelljammer material with an all updated timeline or some explanation for a lost history to discover after the dark age of spelljamming (post 2e, that is).
No changes to remove the weird oddball things, no changes to make it more sci-fi, none of the opposite, either.
Just Spelljammer.
Please?
So much this.
I would love Spelljammer updated to 5e, but leave the fluff of the setting alone.
I would pick a new one entirely. Completely new worlds are easier to get into. I don't really know much about any of the D&D worlds and it seems a bit daunting to try and get into them when they have a mountain of works already.
I would pick a new one entirely. Completely new worlds are easier to get into. I don't really know much about any of the D&D worlds and it seems a bit daunting to try and get into them when they have a mountain of works already.
That's an interesting thought. WotC would probably benefit from a fresh campaign world. I wonder what would work best though....
That's an interesting thought. WotC would probably benefit from a fresh campaign world. I wonder what would work best though....
As long as its well written and fun, interesting, and/or something players can get invested in, I doubt the setting matters quite that much. Personally though, I'd like to see something that is based more off of non-European legends and lore or European ones that you don't actually see that often. Those base European/Tolkien types of stories are the main ones you find, and can be fun, but it would be neat to see something based off of Japanese legends or Indian myths and history, or something Mayan, or African, Finnish (though it's in Europe, it's a non-Indo-European language with its own let of legends/lore- like the Kalevala), etc. Something you don't see all the time. And hopefully done well and not just a bunch of stereotypes thrown over a reskin of a Hollywood movie or something.
From what's been hinted, I'm starting to think we're going to see (in who knows what order) Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Eberron as published settings- as Mearls mentioned Greyhawk and Dragonlance hew very closely to the assumptions of the Core Books, Eberron is easily the most popular non-standard setting, we recently saw play testing of a 5th edition artificer, a 5th edition psionic, a dedicated Knight (which would be pretty great for Solamnia), and of course those are the settings TFYP has a compatibility guide for- and i think that's because it's supposed to be compatible with the kinds of settings that WOTC expects people to be playing in during the near future.
Dragonlance, because it's the only official setting I've ever read anything from; Planescape, because I really want more information on the assorted planes.
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Eberron all the way. I first got introduced in D&D Online and loved it. The mix of magic and steampunk along with the intrigue amongst the Dragonmarked Houses was super cool. I've been dying to run an adventure in the setting.
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Eberron all the way. I first got introduced in D&D Online and loved it. The mix of magic and steampunk along with the intrigue amongst the Dragonmarked Houses was super cool. I've been dying to run an adventure in the setting.
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ive been thinking about throwing my players into Xendrik and particularly Stormreach soon, and using a bunch of stuff from DDO.
You forgot one: Spelljammer!(or The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook)
I love Spelljammer. It's my favourite campaign setting.
Given the way that WotC created a Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, I would imagine that they would want to publish a Realmspace Adventurer's Guide (or a Tears of Selûne Adventurer's Guide if that was too large a scope for them).
Eberron is a setting made for 3rd edition that was the result of a contest or something like that. I kinda like it.
Eberron is pretty cool. It came out just after Ghostwalk. Ghostwalk was the last 3.0 setting and Eberron was the first 3.5 setting. Eberron is by Keith Baker, who wrote a few campaign setting outlines, as part of WotC's campaign setting search contest. Eberron was the winner. A few of the loosers were released as 3rd Party Products, during the d20 System Era. (WotC actually owns the rights for the second place setting - and maybe also the third, as they paid for all of the finalists to be submitted as full blown proposals. I don't think they have done anything with any of those settings.)
There is an Eberron forum over at The Piazza, if you have specific questions. (The Piazza is an edition neutral forum, so if you like 5e you can talk about using Eberron with 5, without any issues. There are actually quite a few people out there that want to see Eberron come back for 5e. Maze Arcana have been backing it too.)
Personally I'm looking forward to a non-wizards product that WotC should have picked up on.
Beyond that I don't really care much for setting books and would prefer more indeph books maybe detailing a city or something that would be unstable in any campaign setting.
I feel like the typical setting material that is produced is too thin.
There are already people publishing 5e compatible campaign settings.
You might be interested in Scarred Lands. That was one of the earliest 3rd Edition compatible campaign settings and it is being converted to both Pathfinder and 5e following a Kickstarter campaign.
I dig it. Maybe Unearthed Arcana will come out and include the Planes.
My guess is that the next thing we see is a Planscape product, since they just announced that new Planescape video game. Previously they were trying to link all mediums together with one setting (novels, RPG products, video games), and they promised to maintain that method. Up until now we've only seen FR.
planescape would also be a good way to bridge new players using FR to other worlds like Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Eberron, etc.
I think that Eberron is supposed to be cut off from other D&D worlds. I believe it is possible to get there by travelling through the Far Realm (because that's what the Thoon cultists did in Monster Manual V and they are available to both Forgotten Realms and Eberron) but the Far Realm makes people go mad.
But - sure - a new Planescape (or a new edition of Manual of the Planes) could link up most D&D worlds (as could Spelljammer).
Given the way that 5e has being going, I think that a Sigil Adventurer's Guide or maybe an Outlands Adventurer's Guide, with a focus on Sigil, but details on the Outlands/Concordant Opposition and the various gatetowns that lead to the rest of the Outer Planes might be a good way to go. With the Outlands kind of being neutral ground, you could have a follow up adventure featuring all sorts of Outer Plane creatures.
World of Warcraft (I know that WotC have lost the rights to this).
It's funny how different groups of people seem to think that some settings are obviously up for 5th Edition publication or obviously not. I don't think we can tell until WotC releases stuff.
I am actually hoping that the "D&D Next" thing turns into a "D&D Forever" thing, with 5th Edition going to 5.0.1, 5.0.2...5.0.9, 5.0.10 etc, instead of doing the entire Edition Treadmill thing with a big reboot of rules and the settings all going out of print again. I think that would be the best way for 5e to stick around long enough for lots of campaign settings to get a chance to be revived.
I am also hoping that things like D&D Beyond and D&D Classics (which are not run by WotC themselves) have been put onto rolling contracts that can potentially last forever. When WotC took back Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine that cut off the supply that fans were using. Obviously WotC needs to get paid, but disruption in the fanbase isn't good for anyone.
I'm a bit sad that Spelljammer was excluded from the question here, as I do think that it is fairly popular. Having said that, it seems that people think that WotC would want to radically reboot the setting to bring it back.
I also think that Hollow World would be an interesting option. Hollow World was originally designed to be put into the core of Mystara (the Known World) but with a bit of rebooting, it could fit into the middle of any campaign world. So I think that it would be relatively easy to put Forgotten Realms sidebars into a Hollow World Adventurer's Guide or throw some "Hollow Realms" maps up on the Internet as a Web Enhancement.
Personally, I miss Oriental Adventures.
For me Dark Sun would just rustle my jimmies. The gritty Mad Max style word mixed with the intensity of social issues that are often hard to talk about makes it the GoT of the D&D world.
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If it was similar to swordcoast my vote is toss the manuscript in the garbage and don't publish anything. It makes no sense to publish a quick glimpse of a setting without having the actual campaign guides to start from. Granted I'm lucky and can go back to my 3rd and 4th stuff, but I feel like sword coast is too brief for my liking.
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Spelljammer.
No, not Starpather or Dragonfinder or Spellstar or whatever's next.
Just... just Spelljammer. Official Spelljammer material with an all updated timeline or some explanation for a lost history to discover after the dark age of spelljamming (post 2e, that is).
No changes to remove the weird oddball things, no changes to make it more sci-fi, none of the opposite, either.
Just Spelljammer.
Please?
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I would pick a new one entirely. Completely new worlds are easier to get into. I don't really know much about any of the D&D worlds and it seems a bit daunting to try and get into them when they have a mountain of works already.
It should have multiple choices as an option. My favorite world is Ravenloft, but I will not say no to Dragonlance or Planescape.
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From what's been hinted, I'm starting to think we're going to see (in who knows what order) Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Eberron as published settings- as Mearls mentioned Greyhawk and Dragonlance hew very closely to the assumptions of the Core Books, Eberron is easily the most popular non-standard setting, we recently saw play testing of a 5th edition artificer, a 5th edition psionic, a dedicated Knight (which would be pretty great for Solamnia), and of course those are the settings TFYP has a compatibility guide for- and i think that's because it's supposed to be compatible with the kinds of settings that WOTC expects people to be playing in during the near future.
Dragonlance, because it's the only official setting I've ever read anything from; Planescape, because I really want more information on the assorted planes.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
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Eberron all the way. I first got introduced in D&D Online and loved it. The mix of magic and steampunk along with the intrigue amongst the Dragonmarked Houses was super cool. I've been dying to run an adventure in the setting.
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DM | Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
We do bones, motherf***ker!
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Spelljammer 3E Conversion Project - Spelljammer Wiki - The Spelljammer Image Group.
(You can see more of me at the D&D forums at The Piazza.)
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Spelljammer 3E Conversion Project - Spelljammer Wiki - The Spelljammer Image Group.
(You can see more of me at the D&D forums at The Piazza.)
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Spelljammer 3E Conversion Project - Spelljammer Wiki - The Spelljammer Image Group.
(You can see more of me at the D&D forums at The Piazza.)
It's funny how different groups of people seem to think that some settings are obviously up for 5th Edition publication or obviously not. I don't think we can tell until WotC releases stuff.
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Spelljammer 3E Conversion Project - Spelljammer Wiki - The Spelljammer Image Group.
(You can see more of me at the D&D forums at The Piazza.)