D&D 5E Do you want new settings, character-types, and monsters?

[plisnithus8]

I know that WotC has rights to old material which makes reworking it easier and less costly and that D&D fans often clamor for a return of their old favorites.
But it seems that kind of model may stifle the game. I would love to see them try new worlds and characters classes without ties to the past. I don’t need new content exclusively, but I want the game to push the boundaries. The way the game has changed; players have changed; it seems like some injections of brand new material could grow from that. Threads pop up all the time asking for guesses on the next campaign book. The suggestions are almost always the names of things people have played before and want updated,

I’m curious if it’s just me.
Or maybe it’s difficult for people to make a suggestion of something new?
If you do want something new, what might that be?

 

[DND_Reborn]

Well, I use a homebrew world for every game I have ever run. I've never used a setting supplied by D&D short of modules in 1E.

I think there are sufficient character types (probably a couple too many really...) since anything you want to play can be made using a class we already have. The sole exception would be the Psionicist or Psion but given the right new eldritch invocations or metamagic, warlocks or sorcerers could be reskined for the Psionicist.

So, for me what I would really like would be a large variety of humanoids and some monsters I guess.

 

[teitan]

I'd like to see a Greyhawk book but barring that I would like to see a SCAG style book that explores the regions around Thay etc because it is a very different flavor of fantasy to the Sword Coast.

Personally I don't see what people are saying when they say WOTC is sooo focused on remakes or revisiting. Most of it is pretty new content that has similar elements to old stuff but I mean, nobody called Second Darkness a rehash of Vault of the Drow. Are they hitting popular beats with Out of the Abyss? Sure. Storm King's Thunder? sure. They aren't remakes or rehashes though. No moreso than Paizo was..

 

[Li Shenron]

I know that WotC has rights to old material which makes reworking it easier and less costly and that D&D fans often clamor for a return of their old favorites.
But it seems that kind of model may stifle the game. I would love to see them try new worlds and characters classes without ties to the past. I don’t need new content exclusively, but I want the game to push the boundaries. The way the game has changed; players have changed; it seems like some injections of brand new material could grow from that. Threads pop up all the time asking for guesses on the next campaign book. The suggestions are almost always the names of things people have played before and want updated,

I’m curious if it’s just me.
Or maybe it’s difficult for people to make a suggestion of something new?
If you do want something new, what might that be?

I do not want anything new, because I know that it will be rehashed old ideas anyway. I would rather rediscover old fantasy settings to "reconnect" with gamers of the past, in which case I would only want conversions to 5e, not big metaplot-driven changes. I think that when a fantasy setting works as a narrative, it should just be converted to other rules systems without changing the story.

New monsters and characters option, of course I want more! That's another matter.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

"There is nothing new under the Sun"
-Ecclesiastes

Pretty much all the good D&D ideas (and plenty of bad ones) have already been done. But some, like Metamorphosis Alpha, haven't been seen for 40 years.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I want to buy books about new classes (but not in subclasses), new PC races and monsters.

After psionics powers I would like the return of the vestige pact magic and the martial adepts (Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords) but I would rather a better work than sooner. I have suggested in the past a remake of the Chronomancers for a future event vs "war of the multiverse" to justify some retcons, or at least to allow time spheres with changes in the lore.

If there is a future Draconomicon, I want true dragons with age categories, not boring drakes, only winged dinosaurs.

In the past I have suggested a board game with easy rules for new players, like Hero Quest from 90, but now because copyright reasons with other name "Endless Quest". And with a free-to-play app to be the IA for solo games.

 

[Coroc]

I know that WotC has rights to old material which makes reworking it easier and less costly and that D&D fans often clamor for a return of their old favorites.
But it seems that kind of model may stifle the game. I would love to see them try new worlds and characters classes without ties to the past. I don’t need new content exclusively, but I want the game to push the boundaries. The way the game has changed; players have changed; it seems like some injections of brand new material could grow from that. Threads pop up all the time asking for guesses on the next campaign book. The suggestions are almost always the names of things people have played before and want updated,

I’m curious if it’s just me.
Or maybe it’s difficult for people to make a suggestion of something new?
If you do want something new, what might that be?

Thing is, old stuff has recognition value and is new stuff to younger players and that in addition to redo is easier (in most cases) than inventing something new like you also realized.

Even the Ravnica book was nothing essentially new bec. of it existing in Magic the Gathering already.

So from a marketing point I would put my bet on some redo or additional stuff on FR / Eberron / Rloft / Ravnica instead of something completely new.

There are only so many main topics and genres in fantasy which are fully "compatible" to D&D.
E.g. while you can use 5e or d20 rules for a lot of things, you cannot simply take the whole fluff (races, classes, items, magic etc.) and put it on every topic. And I believe they want to cater to the whole community means also casual and younger players, not only grognard pro DMs wit ha high level of edition overarcing system and lore mastery.

 

[akr71]

I want:
Old Settings
New Monsters
No more character types

Old settings cuz I'm old and I like to feed my nostalgia occasionally. I likely won't play them, but they'd be fun to read. New monsters cuz it can inspire adventures. No more character types cuz I'm happy with what we've got. If WotC puts out more and people like them, great - but I'm not champing at the bit to get more.

 

[Tallifer]

I still want a Friar ( like the one in Dark Age of Camelot) although a Monk that heals in one way or another suffices in a pinch.
I want new monsters that are more interesting: Toothpaste Golems, Sentient Walking Mansions and Onion Knights.

 

[Bitbrain]

I want old settings released for 5e. Specifically Dark Sun.

More character options would be nice.

I don’t need new monsters though. I have a collection of homebrew monsters that work better than the official ones released by WOTC.