D&D 5E Live tweets from gencon 5e Seminar

[gyor]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Wizards_DnD/tweets

There will be a second seminar tomorrow.

Lots of stuff cover, like Bard having a warlordish subclass, possibly alternate spellcasting systems shown in LLs, Kender and Warforged in next packet (as monsters or pcs I do not know).

One thing I'm curious about is they mentioned having a rules modual for each of thier 5 most popular settings and I think they meant having them in the core books, not full settings just a module for each. Am I interupting that wrong? Kender and Warforge would back that up. What would be the five most popular settings? FR is obvious, but guessing at the rest Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Darksun, Planescape or ravenloft?

Short rest length will be adjustable and there maybe options to recharge magic for certain classes like arcane recovery.

Legendary monsters in include Titans, Older Dragons, Beholders, Vampire Lords.

Other stuff as well.

 

[Paraxis]

Hmm Five most popular.

Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Dragonlance, Darksun, and Mystara?

I mean Planescape and Spelljammer are not exactly settings, more like bridges that bring the settings together.

I would replace Mystara with Greyhawk but I don't think I have ever seen more than 1 Greyhawk game in my life, I know at one time it was popular but not now. Mystara would appeal to the OSR crowd.

 

[gyor]

Ebberon, how could I forget Ebberon?

Still not a Greyhawk fan myself, but I have no doubt as to its popularity and honestly I've seen no evidence of Mystara's popularity at all.

You make a good point about Planescape and Spelljammer, they're more metasettings then settings in thier own right.

I'm really, really, looking forward to the next packet, it has to be a massive one, the culimation of all they've work towards to this point. All the classes and races will be finally in, multiclass rules, exploration and interaction rules, more subclasses, probably more spells, Kender and warforge apparently (I think this ties into the setting modules), maybe tactical combat, Legendary Monsters, and the designers know what else.

 

[howandwhy99]

Forgotten Realms is their big one from just about every Advanced edition, though not in 1e but Dragon articles and the grey box just before 2e came out.
Greyhawk has received virtually no products since 1e, but yeah, a vast amount of D&D setting is Greyhawk setting.
Dragonlance 1st & 2nd products with 3.x being 3rd party. This may be iffy, but it was a huge hit in the 80s.
Planescape had a few things in the post-millennial Dungeon and Dragon magazines, but it's almost entirely a 2e setting.
Darksun as well is almost entirely 2e, but with a workup for 4e. So this is probably a lock. Plus it's significantly unique enough for a set of 5.
Ravenloft is also quite unique for D&D, but not much more than a 2e setting again. Some 3rd party stuff from about 10 years ago. Nothing recent.
Eberron is a lock as 3rd and 4th editions have given it a full treatment and several products.
Spelljammer is light-hearted more than silly. Think of it as sailing the Astral sea, but really no products since 2e and not the most popular setting then.
Mystra/Known World is making a comeback of late, but who is reading the 80s gazeteers now? very little in the way of product since then.
Red Steel, Jakandar, and other settings aren't even in the running.

 

[JeffB]

Hmm... some of you guys need to get out a little bit more regarding Greyhawk. Not popular? Not many products since 1e?

 

[variant]

Some good information. Glad to see the Warlord will be a subclass of the Bard.

 

[GX.Sigma]

As for the five most popular settings, I think he's talking about "supermodules" of optional rules to capture the style of those campaign worlds, which corresponds to different levels of magic and/or lethality on the following spectrum:

Planescape: Literally anything is possible (fate points, punching cthulhu in the face, etc.)
Eberron: Ultra-high fantasy (magic item creation, etc.)
Forgotten Realms: High fantasy (magic item stores, etc.)
Greyhawk: Gritty/pulpy (respiratory diseases, save or die, etc.)
Dark Sun: Everything trying to kill you (exhaustion, piecemeal armor, etc.)

The most interesting information for me was they're planning on a 2014 release. This was pretty surprising, since I don't think they're at all close to finished.

 

[gyor]

The Warlord as Bard Subclass has me wondering if Bards will have spellcasting or not. Maybe it will be by subclass?

 

[gyor]

The core mechanics are done, now its more subclasses, tweeking stuff, fixing the math, general polish.

 

[variant]

One day I would like to see Birthright support. You would think, with how popular Game of Thrones is right now, they would be jumping on a gritty low magic medieval setting with politics. Even if that setting they choose isn't Birthright.

The Warlord as Bard Subclass has me wondering if Bards will have spellcasting or not. Maybe it will be by subclass?

Kind of hoping for a spell system similar to the Monte Cook Bard found in the Eldritch Might books.