Core+1
Satyrn
First Post
I can't imagine AL would split itself into multiple settings, no matter how many settings WotC gave us.
The first test of my guess would be to answer this: Did AL's 3e counterpart use multiple settings back in 3e?
Tony Vargas
Legend
There's no reason WotC couldn't put out an AP or two for a setting, with AL running those APs that year. Encounters would emphasize a given product each season, the second season it was Dark Sun, for instance. AL is pretty casual, more so than the RPGA and 'Living' campaigns were, though not as casual as Encounters was.
Remathilis
Legend
I agree, but it does have some kinks that need ironing out, such as what to do with races that don't exist or are replaced by others, for example. There may need to be a core+setting+supplement system if settings like Dark Sun, or Dragonlance are to get proper support. But that's assuming we ever get a setting that deviates from the PHB norm in any reasonable manner, and right now I don't see a huge appetite from WotC to do more with thier other settings than mine then for ideas and references.
Yaarel
He Mage
The ‘Dark Sun Players Handbook’ can be true to the Dark Sun setting tradition.
And if DMs and players want to add nontraditional races from the (Forgotten Realms) Players Handbook to the demographic, or add nontraditional planes to the cosmology, no problem. Or conversely, make Dark Sun a region of an other setting.
Each setting is just a box of legos. DMs can worldbuild whatever they want. They can build according to the instructions of the box, or alternatively combine pieces from other boxes.
Each setting works best when formally unrelated to the cosmologies of other settings, yet easily miscible because all use the same 5e core mechanics.
And if DMs and players want to add nontraditional races from the (Forgotten Realms) Players Handbook to the demographic, or add nontraditional planes to the cosmology, no problem. Or conversely, make Dark Sun a region of an other setting.
Each setting is just a box of legos. DMs can worldbuild whatever they want. They can build according to the instructions of the box, or alternatively combine pieces from other boxes.
Each setting works best when formally unrelated to the cosmologies of other settings, yet easily miscible because all use the same 5e core mechanics.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Option 3: Addend the Adventurerer’s League rules to allow the Psion and/or Artificer class as options you can choose regardless of your +1.
jgsugden
Legend
So something very close to option 2?
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Not really, cause option 2 would require altering the content of the PHB. My suggestion doesn’t. I’m just suggesting that the Psion and/or Artificer be explicitly made exceptions to PHB+1.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
WOTC can add to the Basic rules at any time, and the Basic rules count as Core +1 without altering content in the PHB.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Which is why I suggested exactly that as option 4.
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