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With the new Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Ravenloft books and the possible Dark Sun book coming later this year what other 5.5 setting books do you think are next and what species and subclasses should be in them?
I want something new. A world I never knew of. Lore so unlike what has come before that I can't help pour over all new details for years to find new hints and secrets..... But that takes, I am not gonna ask for that soon. Just going to wait and dream.
For more near future hopes,
If they are staying Classic, maybe a more fleshed out Nentir Veil.
if they pull from MTG Phyrexia.
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I would love something Japanese themed, but honestly anything that moves away from a European design would be nice.
Wizards has mentioned a few times they are working on collaborations with Luke Gygax on Greyhawk content. The exact nature of those projects is yet to be revealed, but I think it is very likely a Greyhawk sourcebook is in the pipeline.
I would also not be surprised to see a new campaign setting produced, or a setting like Godsbreath that has appeared in official content, but not in a fleshed out manner. One of the self-admitted problems of the old D&D team was their personal bias toward European fantasy and the risk that posed to the game stagnating. The new D&D team is full of people who are incredibly talented game designers, many of whom have a background creating worlds from a different lens than Eurocentric.
It seems obvious Wizards want to take full advantage of the impressive talent pool and diverse backgrounds they just hired. I sincerely hope that is the direction they will go and we will get a mix of classic planes like Greyhawk interspersed with new (or mostly new) planes with their own unique identity.,
If there is a new setting my bet would be for Witchlight.
I remember to have read something about a Japanese team designing a new setting according the preferences of Japanese market, althoutgh a Western culture look, not like Kara-Tur.
If there is a Dark Sun update the future PC species would be the "mulzhennedar" (half-dwarf offspring), the tari(ratfolk) or even a reskinned version of the viashino (reptilian humanoids from Magic: the Gathering). Athasian genasies (ember, magma, sand and sun) could be interesting.
While I want Dark Sun, I think they will be including it with the Arcane books release, and it wont be a setting book but a possible setting in the listing much like our new Ravenloft book lists other domains of dread.
As for other past settings... I have a few I would love to see, but WotC needs to be careful how they do them, ie other regions on Toril which are based on Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. The issue was those origanal settings when made during TSR days were written by white people using sterotypes of those regions. While they did try and be respectful, they failed spectacularly. Those settings need to be reboot, but they need to be written by people who grew up in the cultures they are based on.
Much like Dark Sun, it's not easy to make them fit in today espically when D&D is being sold as an all ages hobby. Dark Sun was full 18+ as a setting, and for them to do it justice it would need to be 18+, and treated with the proper deference as to not be harmful or abusive. ie we will get a name drop and stuff from Dark Sun, but no story and no actual Dark Sun book.
Other than that, Gamma World should be brought back.
They have all but confirmed we are getting a Dark Sun book later this year. Psion Class and subclasses like “Sorcerer King Patron” Warlock are all in playtest content. The unannounced Q4 product is in the “Season of Champions”, which seems a very overt reference to the Champions of Rajaat, foundational characters to the setting. Not to mention the new design team is filled with people who are not shy about tackling more complex, dark, and mature settings.
I think, based on the current information, the chances the Q4 book is not Dark Sun are very, very small.
I will also note, all Domains of Dread are part of the setting Ravenloft. Ravenloft is the setting as a whole - the domains are the sublocations.
Wilds Beyond the Witchlight is not a setting, it's an adventure set in the Feywild and we've had nothing to suggest any fey themed expansion
How can they reskin an option we never had? Viashino were in the Ravnica UA but dropped in favor the approach of reskinning lizardfolk. So no, that's not happening lol
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The Birthright setting was my favorite and I would love to see a new take on it or at least something conceptually similar: less common but very powerful magic, bloodline abilities, abominations who dominate or rule entire regions, smaller realms contesting for a bigger crown to drive political campaigns, and optional rules for people who want to run domains of all kinds including landed baronies, temples, guilds, and magical holdings.
The Runeterra world that the Arcane Netflix series and the League of Legends video game are set in seems to have a lot of lore. If WotC partnered with an existing IP I think that would be very interesting.
The Greyhawk setting I have nostalgia for and will probably buy assuming a full world guide comes out, but it's not much different from the Forgotten Realms in feel (I'd probably use them together, placing the Greyhawk continent on the opposite side of the world from Faerun). GnollitAll's callout for something totally new could be amazing, but it also could be something like Eberron which obviously has a pretty big following but is not my vibe.
I like Birthright, but i think
would be more interesting to relaunch it as a board game or a wargame before releasing the setting itself.