D&D 5E 5e most conservative edition yet? (In terms of new settings)

[commandercrud]

I enjoyed Rick and Morty but it hardly counts. Same for Stranger Things. I don't give a crap about Magic or Critical Role. I find Forgotten Realms an incredibly boring kitchen sink setting. So I agree, basically, with the original poster in his assessment. Something new would be nice. Pretty much any of the old settings would be too. I play almost exclusively with Mystara anymore, but frankly I'd prefer WotC not to touch it.

The argument that D&D is so successful as a reason not to do a setting book is bogus. Most of these new 5e players would eat it up, having never seen something like that before.

 

[Wolfram stout]

Give me more like Wildemount. While I will absolutely buy any 2nd edition retread, I would love to see more from independents that hit it just right and get brought in to the big time. . Heck, even Forgotten Realms is a homebrew world that got bought and caught fire, right?

 

[Fenris-77]

To be fair, the utility of Theros goes well beyond simply being a MtG setting. Rules for D&D in the age of Greek myth is, arguably, more important and interesting than the fact that it happens to be contained in a MtG setting. It's also a very different flavor from any setting done for D&D prior to this. I feel like the tortuous logic necessary for to someone differentiate it based on 'originality' is missing the point.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I didn't say no new settings, I said no new original settings. And by original settings, I mean non-licensed settings. Do you agree on that point?

Ravinica and Theroes aren't licensed. Wizards of the Coast owns them! It's like calling Mystara "licensed" because it was developed earlier by the Basic D&D team before becoming an AD&D setting.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Ravinica and Theroes aren't licensed. Wizards of the Coast owns them! It's like calling Mystara "licensed" because it was developed earlier by the Basic D&D team before becoming an AD&D setting.

Huh. That's an interesting take; and true I suppose - Hasbro doesn't pay itself licensing fees. But would you say they are original to D&D?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

No? Doesn't seem a relevant distinction.

That's my only distinction. WotC's D&D team hasn't created any new setting for 5e. They just move licensed settings through the pipeline.

 

[Fenris-77]

Huh. That's an interesting take; and true I suppose - Hasbro doesn't pay itself licensing fees. But would you say they are original to D&D?

I don't know that it matters for D&D. It's not as though MtG is a TTRPG and people have already role played in that setting before. It's a new setting for D&D. Maybe it feels less like that for serious MtG players, IDK. I haven't been one of those since Ice Age though, so it all seems pretty fresh to me.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

TSR put out so much, that there isn't huge amounts of interesting genuinely new design space: if you want Space Fantasy, why not go back to Spelljammer, and so on.

Wow. That's a sad perspective. I think there are lots of possible settings that could be done.

I just don't think WotC will be the ones creating them.

And maybe, that's ok. Maybe they'll only publish (which is different from create) settings that already have a proven audience. Because that's so much less risky.

What that means of course is that there won't be "official" settings that aren't already popular in some other venue. D&D wont' be creating its own new original IP.

 

[Fenris-77]

Well, updating existing IPs and fleshing out other fantasy settings they already own that have built-in fan base is some pretty obvious low hanging fruit. An entirely new IP is an order of magnitude more work, and by starting slowly, and with smaller yet still popular items above, they can maybe get a really good feel for what kind of new IP has real demand and at the same time has some new and interesting design space associated with it. I don't it needs to be read as they'll never do a new IP.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Well, updating existing IPs and fleshing out other fantasy settings they already own that have built-in fan base is some pretty obvious low hanging fruit. An entirely new IP is an order of magnitude more work, and by starting slowly, and with smaller yet still popular items above, they can maybe get a really good feel for what kind of new IP has real demand and at the same time has some new and interesting design space associated with it. I don't it needs to be read as they'll never do a new IP.

How much more time do they need? Game's been out since 2014.