D&D 5E What official 5E content do you want to see more of?

[TheDelphian]

Not Looking for Gamma World. Almost have my conversion done and it would just undercut all the work I did.

But Would still probably love that cause I love gammaworld even the crap versions have something useful.

<<he says this trying to finish the NanoWizard, a thought that crossed his mind when he was sure he was done.>>

 

[Bitbrain]

A version of 5e that lets me do solar expansion to transhuman science fiction. Including cyberwar and space opera. Future 5e!

You might want to look up the Chronomancer’s Guide to the Future by Haggard Clint.

It’s for 5e, and really good. Helped inspire some aspects of my Eberron campaign.

 

[Ogre Mage]

I would like to see Dark Sun or Al-Qadim campaign books. Dark Sun probably has a better chance of happening as it was more popular.

I would also like to see a Psionics Handbook. But other player options are cool too.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

-I want more spells, particularly more comprehensive coverage of elemental damage variations. Sure, when I'm the DM I'm happy to just say ray of frost can become spray of lightning or whatever the player wants, but not every DM is so liberal or confident with spellcrafting and being as I'm usually the rules authority for my tables even when I'm a player, asking for my character to get an exception sometimes feels rather manipulative.

-I always want more subclasses. Particularly more that support a comparatively unique playstyle for their class like bladesinger, hexblade, or divine soul sorcerer. These are the sort which both substantially expand options while also being problematic to create on your own (both because they demand more playtesting and because the rest of the table may feel like one player is getting too many special dispensations).

-I'd like more short adventure collections. I find that they seem to provide a comfortable starting place for new DMs and increase the willingness of some people to take on a sessions as DM. Yes, logically there's plenty of stuff made for Adventurers League and whatnot, but more casual players are a lot more likely to buy Yawning Portal, flip through it, and see an adventure they'd like to give a shot at running. The world always needs more DMs.

-I'd like a published final version of the UA alternate class features. I've been playing a Ranger with them, and wow do I like it better than a standard ranger, or even the prior UA ranger. Being unshackled from favored enemy and terrain may undermine the traditional theme of the class a bit, but it also makes them more thematically versatile by the same token. More importantly it makes them equally cool whatever decisions the DM makes about encounters and settings rather than something you have to clear with your DM or take a gamble on. And level 1 is no longer just a crappy fighter with a hunting theme. Also a big fan of giving Sorcerers something, anything, to do with sorcery points at level 2 other than create a single level 1 spell slot.

I would love to get a 5e AD&D: Tweaks and different visions of the existing classes, balanced with 5e, but intended for games with more of a “This one goes to 11” attitude, and more gritty rules modules enabled.
Combine this with an adventure path, and WoTC can demonstrate how different themes can be modeled with 5e.

Agreed. I don't know how much we would necessarily agree with each other on what exactly it should entail but I think having some sort of codified, alternate "advanced" version would allow for the game to continue being inclusive to less experienced players or those who just do better with simplicity, while allowing those of us who would be comfortable with more complexity to have official support for such.

 

[Parmandur]

Everything BUT adventures.

I guess from the voting people are buying them, but I'm just really unimpressed with WotC's entire history of adventures (all the way back). Their miss-rate seems to be way higher than TSR's was on those, and the ones they do make are far more prone to being kinda bland and missing so much stuff you have to spend tons of effort filling in the gaps. And there's no sign of improvement - just the odd good one in amongst the bland.

Also can I just say the biggest thing missing from 5E is a magic item book.

And it's missing because WotC are rubbish. Yeah I said it. They're rubbish because instead of putting magic items in a book, I could buy, they scatter them through every adventure. This is money-grubbing of the saddest kind, frankly.

If you just want magic items, those can be procured a la carte via D&D Beyond. Digital tools mean that a compilation of side material like that won't sell sufficiently by itself as a book. The Smorgasbord strategy for the hardcovers is consumer friendly, really, compared to the splat model.

 

[Minigiant]

I want a big spell book.

I want a big spell book
And
I want a big weapon/armor/gear/maneuver/ book

 

[Lucas Yew]

While I answered player options and rules, my true answer would be the SRD's expansion.

 

[darjr]

More planar stuff. Sigil for a start. Then famous places like the City of Brass or the Dead God City or ... well you get it.

 

[Asisreo]

God, could you imagine an expansion for weapons and spellcasting. Just imagine a book that gives proper levels for level 20+ play. It would be too much for my heart. Maybe people would actually play high level fanatsy, then.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

If you just want magic items, those can be procured a la carte via D&D Beyond.

You literally have to be joking, so rich you've forgotten how the common man lives, or have never actually looked at the prices, making a comment like that! They cost like $1.50 each item. To buy a few hundred, like would be in a magic item book would cost you hundreds of dollars - maybe well over $400. That's an extremely expensive magic item book.

Digital tools mean that a compilation of side material like that won't sell sufficiently by itself as a book. The Smorgasbord strategy for the hardcovers is consumer friendly, really, compared to the splat model.

This just doesn't hold up to scrutiny of the actual pricing model. I'm also not saying a magic-items-only book would sell. But a magic items and spells book, perhaps with some feats and subclasses definitely would. And you seem to think people are just going to spend dozens to hundreds of dollars buy "a la carte" instead, to which I can only offer mystification...