Two New Settings For D&D This Year

Mercurius · Jun 7, 2018

Prakriti said:
Jester David isn't trying to wheedle more information out of you. He's telling you that if you signed an NDA, then you have either breached it or come very close to breaching it. What's more, this isn't the first time you've done it; I recall you making similar comments in the past. Personally, I find it distasteful and think you should stop.

I'm going to have to disagree here. Rather, I say break the NDA and tell us what the hell is going on! Go out with a bang!

Mercurius · Jun 7, 2018

I am continually baffled by Setting Puritanism. It goes something like this:

1) We want an update for our favorite setting, which is The Best Setting Ever.
2) But said material can only match what we want from that setting, which is...
3) Almost always just the original published material; and/or whatever we believe to be the true and pure Platonic Ideal of that setting.
4) Anything that veers from this kills the setting for us, and WotC will be forever dead to us.
5) Give it to me now!

I mean, come on folks - a little flexibility here! Canon is just the default suggestion. It is a toolbox that you can choose as you desire.

(I personally think it would be funny if WotC inserted Drizzt Do'Urden into every product just to piss purists and anti-Realmsians off...sort of like a mix of Where's Waldo/Drizzt and Drizzt Photobomb).

dwayne · Jun 7, 2018

counsel of wyrms setting was an odd one where you played a dragon as a player, also gave us half dragons and was one of the main reasons for dragon born we have now. Hollow world would be cool as well but that is very big and doubt could be really covered in on book as this one. Jakandor, released in 1998, is a self-contained "campaign arena" conceived by Jeff Grubb. Jakandor is an island divided between the native Charonti, a civilization that makes heavy use of magic (especially necromancy), and the Knorr, barbarians who despise the vile practice of magic and have been driven from a far-away homeland to Jakandor. Also ghost chasers setting for modern and dark matter, Urban Arcana Campaign Setting, Apocalypse which had no real setting to speak of as with past, future and cyberscape heck they could put them all into a gamma world like setting. But star fronters would may be be better for the future stuff and cyber things than gamma world. Ghostwalk was a cool one and could be done in one book but it is close to some they have done so not ure on that one. Kingdoms of Kalamar is one but again a fantisy setting so maybe not just like Lankhmar and Mahasarpa which is an asian setting but still in the fantisy vain.

Parmandur · Jun 7, 2018

neogod22 said:
If I cared who believed me, you may be right. But the thing is, in the past, wizards have all the playtest material to all the groups, and leaks happened. They had no way of knowing where it came from. Recently, they stopped accepting new NDAs, started deleting current ones and started selecting which groups get which material in order to find out where leaks are coming from. So pardon me if I decide to not say my name, which books I've actually played that haven't been released yet, or anything else that may compromise my group's ability to keep receiving material from Wizards to impress some faceless masses on a forum. You're not important enough.

You could have done what several playtesters did on the sly this year in regards to the Waterdeep one-two punch, and just tell us what is coming but pretend that it is a guess.

Lidgar · Jun 7, 2018

My super-secret intel points to a campaign centered on module N2: "The Forest Oracle"

It will include a new Wandering Pilgrim class and magic items, such as the Sombrero of Expressionless and Stilts of Jaunty Walking

neogod22 · Jun 7, 2018

Parmandur said:
You could have done what several playtesters did on the sly this year in regards to the Waterdeep one-two punch, and just tell us what is coming but pretend that it is a guess.

That could've worked for the Waterdeep books, the other one... the one, is different. Something new.

Bitbrain · Jun 7, 2018

So, just to sum up, the general hope is that the two summer products will most likely be (in alphabetical order) some combination or another of Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Eberron, Planescape, or Spelljammer.

And assuming neogod22's information is accurate, the winter product will be something new and different. Possibly that one 5e game designer's home setting (sadly, I can't remember it's name, but I think it started with "V")

Parmandur · Jun 7, 2018

neogod22 said:
That could've worked for the Waterdeep books, the other one... the one, is different. Something new.

May be, maybe. Time will tell. Mearls has been talking like he has something pretty exciting up his sleeve.

neogod22 · Jun 8, 2018

Bitbrain said:
So, just to sum up, the general hope is that the two summer products will most likely be (in alphabetical order) some combination or another of Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Eberron, Planescape, or Spelljammer.

And assuming neogod22's information is accurate, the winter product will be something new and different. Possibly that one 5e game designer's home setting (sadly, I can't remember it's name, but I think it started with "V")

The 2 books they announced Dragon Hiest and DotMM will come out closer to the end of the year, maybe Sep and Nov. with the start of the new season. The other book, I have no idea, it could come out this summer, it could come out next spring, but I doubt it's going to come out in the seasons timeframe. If I had to guess I think it will be sooner rather than later.

vecna00 · Jun 8, 2018

Mercurius said:
I am continually baffled by Setting Puritanism. It goes something like this:

1) We want an update for our favorite setting, which is The Best Setting Ever.
2) But said material can only match what we want from that setting, which is...
3) Almost always just the original published material; and/or whatever we believe to be the true and pure Platonic Ideal of that setting.
4) Anything that veers from this kills the setting for us, and WotC will be forever dead to us.
5) Give it to me now!

I mean, come on folks - a little flexibility here! Canon is just the default suggestion. It is a toolbox that you can choose as you desire.

(I personally think it would be funny if WotC inserted Drizzt Do'Urden into every product just to piss purists and anti-Realmsians off...sort of like a mix of Where's Waldo/Drizzt and Drizzt Photobomb).

It must be something new, yet exactly the same, yet new, but the same....and it better not have "this very specific thing that would probably never be there anyway but oh god you gave them ideas and now it's there!"

Two New Settings For D&D This Year

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