Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I am the only one who wishes WotC would just announce the upcoming D&D settings for 2021?
MtG does this now, for the last couple of years, we know that MtG is getting a Kaldheim set, a Timespiral Remastered Set, a Strixhaven set, Forgotten Realms Set, a Modern Horizon 2 Set, a Vampire Innistrad set, and a Werewolf Innistrad Set next year. I really think the D&D department should do the equivilant, so fans can plan ahead.
Yeah, it would be nice if they did, but they seem to like to keep us on our toes.
Wildemount came out of nowhere when everyone was expecting Spelljammer.
I do hope it's
Krynnor Athas though.Edit: Welp, I guess it won't be Krynn.
I absolutely wish this, because otherwise I get my hopes up that it'll be a classic setting (Greyhawk, Mystara, Dragonlance, Dark Sun) and then boom, it turns out to be MTG or Critter fan service. Nothing against Wildemount, it's dope, but I would have preferred other settings.
I feel you. I’m an MTG player, so I was psyched for at least the Ravnica book, but I was a bit miffed with Wildemount. I like the Eastern Europe feel of the setting, but it’s too light for my taste, and I just don’t like watching other people play D&D, so I’m not familiar with it. Hopefully we get some classic settings soon!
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I’ll buy them regardless, but whereas Wildemount is entirely new I probably have more setting info than I can carry by myself from previous editions when it comes to classic settings. I mean, I have the 5E Sword Coast book and ultimately its usefulness is pretty limited unless you’re new to the Forgotten Realms (and if you are the oblique references are still pretty annoying). And while on the one hand I’d give a kidney for a new Planescape book, I know it won’t feel the same without Tony DiTerlizzi’s artwork. Sooo... classic settings? Sure, but maybe something fresh isn’t so bad either.
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Dragonlance wouldn't be my preference; but why are you thinking it won't be Krynn?
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Tracy Hickman is really going to be surprised to discover that he's a girl...
I am the kind that waits until Christmas to open the presents. I'd rather let the anticipation build.
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Having read the complain Hickman and Weiss filed in Fed District Court, I believe Portential was talking about the pair of editors (both women) who were working with Hickman and Weiss, swapping them for an editor who has had some controversy around his own writing and continued employ with WotC. It's a curious case, and I'm wondering whether WotC will simply assert a very callous theory of contract law or provide its own fact pattern agains the authors. But that's getting far afield from the topic..
Re: announcements, I too can wait a few months before learning "what's next." I mean, I mean WotC products, at least the adventures and non rules source books. I usually fill about two-three notebooks rewriting the material for my games, and settings books would largely be more inspiration wells to mine than something to play out of the box, so to speak. There's a lot to wrap my head around with the mentioned third party (I like some Kobold Press, I like the look and feel of stuff put out by Deck of Many ... and [shhh] there are 'other games') and community stuff out there, so it's not like I run out of things or structure my games around main publisher releases.
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i heard very little of this setting care to share some info about it ?
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I wouldn't really want Dragonlance even if the legal conflict was settled. We already have two high fantasy type settings, and I would prefer something more unique like Planescape of Dark Sun first. But I wouldn't be surprised if another Forgotten Realms book would appear, to coincide with the M:tG book and provide a better guide than SCAG.
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Yeah, but it’s already kinda ruined because of how they’re treating Psionics this edition.
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In other news, the original writers of Dragonlance are suing Wizards of the Coast for a breach of contract.
https://www.cbr.com/wizards-of-the-coast-dragonlance-lawsuit/
That was my point, with the lawsuit it may not be Krynn.
And yes, WotC fired the two women editors who were working on the new trilogy with Weiss and Hickman and replaced them with a single male editor, then after getting one full manuscript and a treatment for the second, they pulled the the project.
As far as classic settings, Athas would be amazing, so would Greyhawk. I also wouldn't mind a new low magic world, or a revisit to Lankhmar.
But t would kind of be ideal for Dark Sun. Nobody wants to really be a caster in Dark Sun so you have psionics which is being a "caster".
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Except there are Spellcasters on Aathas, the Defilers and Preservers. And Psionics should never ever use Spellcasting rules since that defeats the entire point of why Psionics was safe for them to use.
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Have you ever seen the movie, John Carter? Now imagine a non-Disney version with cannibalism and weapons made from bone or obsidian since metal was so rare. Now take what you imagined and dial it up to 11. Then realize that still isn’t cool enough to be Dark Sun.
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WotC is less of a committee than it is a subsidiary of a megalithic corporate overlord. Hasbro sets the policies, one size fits all style, and pushes those out to everyone beholden to them. Unfortunate, but that’s the way of corporate governance.
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Don’t forget Athas had PC Thri-kreen. Thri-kreen also had a trance ability like Elves, and their favorite food was elf flesh. Mine would always take the other watch that the elf didn’t take so the rest of the party didn’t have to sit a shift. My Thri-Kreen always sat there watching over the elf’s sleeping form and chittering it’s mandibles... every night.
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So D&D in Gamma World without the tech?
I'm kidding.
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Even if Psionics basically used spellcasting rules that doesn't mean you have to have them drain the world as magic does.