Lmao I just posted about Darksun and just saw this! I had no idea darksun is in 5e now
👏 Thank you for letting me know!! :D
They haven't released it yet, they have been working on it since 2018, and they even had a few UA's on it in the past. Most of the rules have found their way into some of the other source materials. But Preserver/despoiler mechanics have yet to be official in 5th.
What they have done, Psionics added to most classes, Thri-Kreen and Aarakocra, with the addition of Dragonlance Kinder there will be halfling rules to fit Athas, you can sort of build a Sorcerer King using a Litch and mixing them with Draconic Bloodline Sorcery. The only thing really missing are bone weapons and armor, and some unique monsters.
Sorry, everyone, I should have been more clear in my original post based on the number of people saying "homebrew" or "You forgot X". I am only wanting to see what people like to play from the currently available official WotC 5e campaign settings. I'm sorry that wasn't more apparent. I can see how my question, and some of the options, could be misleading.
I am asking this question to get a feel for how well these campaign settings are supported by content on the DM's Guild website.
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing) You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
"Generic Fantasy" with the stipulation that it's a mish-mash mush of the various settings.
This is something that the Codename: One D&D UA seems to be promoting with their "[race] Across the Multiverse" blurbs. While they do specify examples of the typical encounters in specific settings, the fact they include several examples suggests to me that they don't want the boundaries to be so rigid. I could be inferring too much from the way they're presenting it, though.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Well, you only listed 5th edition settings. And missed some of the biggest ones that are played in home games even now.
Dark Sun IMO one of the best settings, and most of the rules are back in 5th now. Once Dragonlance is out, I'm sure They'll be doing a Dark Sun adventure.
I'd like to believe this, but Dark Sun's subject matter is almost completely at odds with the direction the company seems to want to go.
I use a huge world map and any city maps I can find from anyplace close to the setting.
About ten maps of each, village, town, city and metropolis is more than enough. I just keep a list of names associated with each map and notable NPC;s in each place.
My players never meet the rulers of any nation. Unless they are for some reason members of the royal houses. (not much chance of that, they do not adventure)
I'm not sure whether polling DnD Beyond is the best way to get an understanding of how well DMsGuild's products "support" the settings you've listed.
As an aside, I don't know if DMsGuild can support Wildemont, I know there's some prohibition about putting CR derived content on DMsGuild (checked the guidelines, yep, DMsGuild producers aren't supposed to mix it up with Wildemont or Acquisitions Incorporated, and a trio of characters in BG:DitA).
Anycase, this survey may get a few hundred responses, whereas if you use the tools in DMsGuild you can identify the best sellers and best reviewed, the selling figures have rankings that note sales into the thousands.
Basically you can get impressions of DMsGuild by checking in with D&D Beyond, but if you really want to know what's going on on DMsGuild, it's a fairly transparent platform with data that is based on what sells not impressions.
One thing about DMsGuild support is that the bulk of products "supporting" anything D&D are timed with the release of a particular book. Lots of Horror themed content with the release of VRGtR for example. Those supports are more thematic supports, because the writers generally don't have an advanced peak. I'm pretty sure at years end we'll likely see a lot of Krynn content when/if DMsGuild opens that up to community development (which could go either way).
Well, you only listed 5th edition settings. And missed some of the biggest ones that are played in home games even now.
Dark Sun IMO one of the best settings, and most of the rules are back in 5th now. Once Dragonlance is out, I'm sure They'll be doing a Dark Sun adventure.
I'd like to believe this, but Dark Sun's subject matter is almost completely at odds with the direction the company seems to want to go.
I would say that about Dragonlance, and yet here we are. Arthas and Darksun is one of the most unique settings in all of D&D, and the only reason they haven't supported it as well as they could have was an issue of copy right during 3.0-3.5 they solved that by 4th, and they now have 100% of the rights in 5th. in 2018 they started work on the setting and made a few UAs and announcements they were working on it. ... so far all we have seen since that point is the Addition of psionics to most classes, the addition of some spells only found in that setting, and the addition of the Bug Race which was unique to that setting. All they have to do is add a few monsters, player options Preservers & Despoilers, and Sorcerer Kings (Human/Dragon Wizards equal in power to a Lich.) The problematic bits are less jarring than what is in Dragonlance (Overt Race wars, open racism, & racial stereotypes).
Since bone weapons and bone armor would have the same stats with different properties, I don't see the addition of bone replacements to metal being much of an issue.
Ssurran's are also back. You know the Darksun lizard folk. Oh and ...
Ssurran Defiler
yes they included a Defiler monster in Spelljammer. The art just happens to look like old Darksun Cover art of a Sorcerer King.
Edit 2: Info not on the wiki and "the case of WotC unable to find Darksun Copyright info, and a 3rd party site tied to one of the original authors of the setting claiming they had the copyright", which was a bold faced lie, WotC owned All of DarkSun as it was included with the TSR purchase.
Yeah, the thing is that the Ssurans were found in doomspace which is heavily implied to be darksun and everything in that wildspace system has a lifespan measured in months.
It's a cool setting and I'd love to see it again, but it's subject matter is wildly at odds with what WotC seems to want to do with their writing.
Think I'll vote for Urban, but I like the ones where you can hop around from setting to settings and theme to theme. Like have some low level city adventures in Port Nyanzaru, then strike out and explore the jungles and rivers of Chult. Can then use the Guide to Ravenloft to bring in horror elements with lost cities/temples.
... but it's subject matter is wildly at odds with what WotC seems to want to do with their writing.
How, the one setting that is most at odds is Dragonlance. Dark Sun is harsh world ruled and destroyed by powerful evil, but the room for heroics is off the charts, and the goal of saving a world stuck in a runaway man made ecological disaster has a resonance with our world today. Everything about Dark Sun seems perfect for todays era of table top story telling.
They haven't released it yet, they have been working on it since 2018, and they even had a few UA's on it in the past. Most of the rules have found their way into some of the other source materials. But Preserver/despoiler mechanics have yet to be official in 5th.
What they have done, Psionics added to most classes, Thri-Kreen and Aarakocra, with the addition of Dragonlance Kinder there will be halfling rules to fit Athas, you can sort of build a Sorcerer King using a Litch and mixing them with Draconic Bloodline Sorcery. The only thing really missing are bone weapons and armor, and some unique monsters.
Sorry, everyone, I should have been more clear in my original post based on the number of people saying "homebrew" or "You forgot X". I am only wanting to see what people like to play from the currently available official WotC 5e campaign settings. I'm sorry that wasn't more apparent. I can see how my question, and some of the options, could be misleading.
I am asking this question to get a feel for how well these campaign settings are supported by content on the DM's Guild website.
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing)
You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
"Generic Fantasy" with the stipulation that it's a mish-mash mush of the various settings.
This is something that the Codename: One D&D UA seems to be promoting with their "[race] Across the Multiverse" blurbs. While they do specify examples of the typical encounters in specific settings, the fact they include several examples suggests to me that they don't want the boundaries to be so rigid. I could be inferring too much from the way they're presenting it, though.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I favor many, but if i had to pick one, i'd choose the EBERRON campaign setting.
I'd like to believe this, but Dark Sun's subject matter is almost completely at odds with the direction the company seems to want to go.
Home brew
I use a huge world map and any city maps I can find from anyplace close to the setting.
About ten maps of each, village, town, city and metropolis is more than enough. I just keep a list of names associated with each map and notable NPC;s in each place.
My players never meet the rulers of any nation. Unless they are for some reason members of the royal houses. (not much chance of that, they do not adventure)
I'm not sure whether polling DnD Beyond is the best way to get an understanding of how well DMsGuild's products "support" the settings you've listed.
As an aside, I don't know if DMsGuild can support Wildemont, I know there's some prohibition about putting CR derived content on DMsGuild (checked the guidelines, yep, DMsGuild producers aren't supposed to mix it up with Wildemont or Acquisitions Incorporated, and a trio of characters in BG:DitA).
Anycase, this survey may get a few hundred responses, whereas if you use the tools in DMsGuild you can identify the best sellers and best reviewed, the selling figures have rankings that note sales into the thousands.
Basically you can get impressions of DMsGuild by checking in with D&D Beyond, but if you really want to know what's going on on DMsGuild, it's a fairly transparent platform with data that is based on what sells not impressions.
One thing about DMsGuild support is that the bulk of products "supporting" anything D&D are timed with the release of a particular book. Lots of Horror themed content with the release of VRGtR for example. Those supports are more thematic supports, because the writers generally don't have an advanced peak. I'm pretty sure at years end we'll likely see a lot of Krynn content when/if DMsGuild opens that up to community development (which could go either way).
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I would say that about Dragonlance, and yet here we are. Arthas and Darksun is one of the most unique settings in all of D&D, and the only reason they haven't supported it as well as they could have was an issue of copy right during 3.0-3.5 they solved that by 4th, and they now have 100% of the rights in 5th. in 2018 they started work on the setting and made a few UAs and announcements they were working on it. ... so far all we have seen since that point is the Addition of psionics to most classes, the addition of some spells only found in that setting, and the addition of the Bug Race which was unique to that setting. All they have to do is add a few monsters, player options Preservers & Despoilers, and Sorcerer Kings (Human/Dragon Wizards equal in power to a Lich.) The problematic bits are less jarring than what is in Dragonlance (Overt Race wars, open racism, & racial stereotypes).
Since bone weapons and bone armor would have the same stats with different properties, I don't see the addition of bone replacements to metal being much of an issue.
edit: Opps didn't notice this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/sais/bam/bestiary#Ssurran
Ssurran's are also back. You know the Darksun lizard folk. Oh and ...
Ssurran Defiler
yes they included a Defiler monster in Spelljammer. The art just happens to look like old Darksun Cover art of a Sorcerer King.
Edit 2: Info not on the wiki and "the case of WotC unable to find Darksun Copyright info, and a 3rd party site tied to one of the original authors of the setting claiming they had the copyright", which was a bold faced lie, WotC owned All of DarkSun as it was included with the TSR purchase.
Yeah, the thing is that the Ssurans were found in doomspace which is heavily implied to be darksun and everything in that wildspace system has a lifespan measured in months.
It's a cool setting and I'd love to see it again, but it's subject matter is wildly at odds with what WotC seems to want to do with their writing.
Think I'll vote for Urban, but I like the ones where you can hop around from setting to settings and theme to theme.
Like have some low level city adventures in Port Nyanzaru, then strike out and explore the jungles and rivers of Chult.
Can then use the Guide to Ravenloft to bring in horror elements with lost cities/temples.
As far as 5e settings go, homebrew above all else. FR, Ravenloft, and Theros are all second. Everything else I don't really have much interest in.
How, the one setting that is most at odds is Dragonlance. Dark Sun is harsh world ruled and destroyed by powerful evil, but the room for heroics is off the charts, and the goal of saving a world stuck in a runaway man made ecological disaster has a resonance with our world today. Everything about Dark Sun seems perfect for todays era of table top story telling.