Keith Baker has written 5E Eberron! Now who would you choose to write the other Classic D&D Worldbooks?

[Dungeonosophy]

If 5E Eberron is a model and template for how WotC might approach the other Classic D&D Worlds...then a central designer of each world would be tapped to write the other 5E worldbooks too. Who would you nominate?

My nominations:

For 5E Greyhawk: Eric Mona? Allan Grohe?
For 5E Dragonlance: Weis and Hickman. (Along with Cam Banks)
For 5E Mystara: Bruce Heard.
For 5E Blackmoor. Dustin Clingman? (Headed up the 3E Blackmoor line.) and/or James Mishler (a Blackmoor expert, and licensed publisher of the Wilderlands of High Adventure)

Who else? Who do you nominate? Who'd you choose to write the other settings? (Planescape, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Birthright, Nerath, others?)

 

[77IM]

5E Dragon Fist: Chris Pramas.

 

[Mercurius]

Well, we can also discuss which settings we might see. While this approach is low-risk, it still requires resources and i'm not sure they'll dig so deep as Blackmoor or Dragon Fist.

If this is the new template--and I think it is as it just makes too much sense, even if I personally greatly prefer actual books--then I think we'll see Dark Sun, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance as "probables" sometime in the next year or two. Then we get to Mystara and Rokugan (or some kind of Asian setting) as "maybes". Everything else--including Birthright, Blackmoor, etc--seems unlikely.

Not sure how they'll do FR. I could see anything from a 3E-style hardcover to nothing at all, just leaving it as default.

I imagine we'll see actual hardcover coverage of Planescape/Spelljammer, or at least one of them - or possibly a two-part story arc next year. We might also see Dark Sun covered in a story arc.

 

[DeanP]

Eric Mona and Allan Grohe for Greyhawk; why settle for one?

 

[Demetrios1453]

Not sure how they'll do FR. I could see anything from a 3E-style hardcover to nothing at all, just leaving it as default..

I'd be happy to have this template repeated for the Realms - they could release something similar to the Eberron PDF, detailing lands and things that weren't covered in SCAG. Preferably written by Ed and others who have done a lot of work in the setting.

 

[Mercurius]

I'd be happy to have this template repeated for the Realms - they could release something similar to the Eberron PDF, detailing lands and things that weren't covered in SCAG. Preferably written by Ed and others who have done a lot of work in the setting.

What I'd personally love to see is Ed Greenwood's personal version of the Realms, without all the stuff added on and changed by others. Sort of "Realms Classic." I suppose this would be grey box updated to 5E.

 

[Jester David]

Wolfgang Baur for Planescape. (Because Monte Cook won’t come back to D&D.)

Can’t think of anyone for Ravenloft sadly. They’ve all seemed to have left gaming.

 

[Zardnaar]

Troy Denning and Tim Brown iirc for Dark Sun.

Bruce Heard was interested in doing Mystara, WotC said no.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Bruce Heard was interested in doing Mystara, WotC said no.

Back when Bruce asked (at the beginning of 5E), WotC wasn't doing any licensing of their settings whatsoever. But times have changed. That was before DMs Guild existed. And now Eberron is being released with Keith Baker himself as the worldbook author. So now there's a precedent and template for doing the same thing for the other settings. Bruce Heard would be the equivalent to Keith Baker for Mystara.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

If they brought in Jonathan Frakes and William Shatner to help write the lore of Spelljammer 5e, that might be interesting.