D&D 5E Your wishlist for fantasy adventure beyond medieval Europe

[Salamandyr]

One thing I would like is a technologist class, for post apocalyptic fantasy (my game world is a Dying Earth world).

 

[Jack Daniel]

One thing I would like is a technologist class, for post apocalyptic fantasy (my game world is a Dying Earth world).

Better yet, a technologist class that works well for all the genres that might need it. Early modern (clockwork, alchemy, and prisms); steampunk (gotta have mad inventors); pulp (wahoo mad science types); modern (Samantha Carter vs. MacGyver!); and all the sci-fi (too many techies to count).

A decent working artificer class could be re-skinned, and I'd honestly be happy with that, but imagine how awesome it would be to see a real technologist class that gets its own "spell list" of cool gadgets it can build, not just reskinned spells/psionics, and 5th edition style sub-classes for specializing in vehicles (both engineering and piloting); guns and bombs; optics; drugs; and, where setting appropriate, computers (or analytical engines).

 

[The M'hael]

Steampunk, a fantasy world with really weird cosmology, and a world that i think mearls mentioned, with post apocalyptic earth with beholders invading.

 

[ppaladin123]

Age of exploration/reason (1500-1750 or so) with its clockwork precision, natural law, imperialism (and all the awful things that came with it), piracy, baroque architecture/art/music, etc.

 

[pkt77242]

Viking/Norse
Native American (Aztec or Mayan)

 

[Negflar2099]

I don't want to hijack the thread but for those who are interested I built a Gadgeteer class. It's in the download section: http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1108

It's meant to build out and maintain a small selection of devices (some which duplicate spells and some that do things spells can't do). It's very much meant to be a Girl Genius Gaslamp type class.

 

[Salamandyr]

I don't really see anything in 5e that stops it from being used now for medieval Japan (with magic), medieval China (with magic), Ancient Rome (with magic), or any other culture where the primary method of cutting down ones enemies is with something involving muscle (and magic).

There are some rule wrinkles and some setting specific monsters, like for instance Tengu, I wouldn't mind seeing the stats for, but I don't think we really need a separate class called "samurai" to play in medieval Japan.

 

[Afrodyte]

I don't really see anything in 5e that stops it from being used now for medieval Japan (with magic), medieval China (with magic), Ancient Rome (with magic), or any other culture where the primary method of cutting down ones enemies is with something involving muscle (and magic).

There are some rule wrinkles and some setting specific monsters, like for instance Tengu, I wouldn't mind seeing the stats for, but I don't think we really need a separate class called "samurai" to play in medieval Japan.

I haven't seen anyone talk or ask about rules at all. Just ideas for things they'd like to see 5e do. There is no explicit or implicit statement that D&D is inadequate for the kinds of milieus some of us want to play in.

 

[Salamandyr]

I haven't seen anyone talk or ask about rules at all. Just ideas for things they'd like to see 5e do. There is no explicit or implicit statement that D&D is inadequate for the kinds of milieus some of us want to play in.

OK; I've just gotten the sense that people have this idea that D&D is all fantasy medieval Europe all the time, which has never been the case. In addition to having monsters from nearly every portion of the Earth, Greyhawk contained countries emulations of nearly every culture on Earth too, and Forgotten Realms even more so. And that's just the published worlds. Yet you constantly hear about how "D&D is Fantasy Medieval Europe". It really never has been.

My own preferred stylings is more Ancient world & pulp sword & sorcery than the ersatz 16th Century Renaissance Faire look of most of the trade dress these days.

 

[Hussar]

I'd love to see a truly fantastic setting. Living cities of massive, mobile tower beasts and road centipedes. Moving cities built on the backs of gigantic lizards. Flying cities. Local peoples living in symbiotic relationships with treants to harvest lumber. Magical storms and events. Wandering small gods. All sorts of actual fantastic elements instead of trying to having a mundane settings with a little bit of magic.