D&D 5E Is there even a new D&D setting?

Though we’ve been speculating about what the new setting recently pre-announced for D&D might or might not be (Icewind Dale being one suggestion), there's some doubt about whether it exists at all!

The press release that was sent out said:

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new setting and storyline as well as accompanying new products

The web page for the event says:

Fans of D&D will learn all about the new storyline as well as accompanying new products

The word “setting” is missing from the web page, but exists in the press release. The text is the same otherwise.

I don’t know which order the two were written in, or if the latter changed, or if the former contains extra information.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Dragonlance has always been fueled by the novels, but we haven't seen a new Dragonlance novel in quite some time. I checked Wikipedia's list of Dragonlance novels and the last published DL book was a new edition of the Dragonlance Legends Trilogy in 2011. It's a bit of a dry spell.

Forgotten Realms isn't exactly filling store shelves but Salvatore at least looks to still be getting mileage out of Drizzt and company. Plus FR has always billed itself as a super-detailed campaign setting so it has that going for it even without the books.

If DL does return I wonder what it will have that will hook people into the setting that doesn't own a pair of nostalgia goggles. Maybe they've got a blockbuster of a novel in the works to kickstart a new DL setting/adventure/thing?

On the contrary, the end of the novels is probably the best thing to happen to Dragonlance as a setting since it ends the metaplot that jerked it around too much. (See also, Forgotten Realms. Although their metaplot was driven by the game - Dragonlance's were by the novels)

Regardless, as a big Dragonlance fan if they do release, I suspect it'll be a tired rehash of the original modules and in that case, Do not want.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Dragonlance at least made alignment relevant with mechanics relating to it with moon magic.

I don't think 5E can do Dragonlance well though. It fails hard at gritty, alignment doesn't matter, and I can't see them doing a Dragonlance that can one shot a dragon.

Basically not expecting 5E DL anytime soon if ever. House ruling AD&D would be easier and more faithful to the source material IMHO. Dump THAC0 for example add in 5E skill system

AD&D wasn't even the best system Dragonlance was released in.

 

[Hurin70]

I know it won't be Dark Sun... but I'm really hoping for Dark Sun.

 

[Burnside]

Icewind Dale isn't a true setting in D&D terms, but only a localitation. Kara-Tur, Maztica and al-Qualdin in FR, Taladas in Dragonlance and Hollow World and Red Steel in Mystara are "spin-off".

Hasbro knows the D&D lines could becomes true cash-cows in a future if there is a good work.

Ravenloft will come back, but we don't know about future plans about the metaplot and potential spin-off (Innistrad, Mask of the Red Death). A piece of me thinks Hasbro wants a opened door for Ravenloft stories in the pulp age, for the players who enjoy with Call of Chulthu.

WotC has been letting DMSGuild creators do what they like with Mask of the Red Death under the Ravenloft setting umbrella. I don’t think they’d allow that if they themselves had plans to use it.

 

[Morrus]

I don't think 5E can do Dragonlance well though. It fails hard at gritty, alignment doesn't matter, and I can't see them doing a Dragonlance that can one shot a dragon.

Dragonlance? Gritty?!?!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Dragonlance has been the most sold fantasy saga after the Lord of the Rings. It is still a potential cash-cow or gold-mine if it's adapted to the big or little screen in the right way. It's is the perfect setting for a family-friend cartoon CGI movie, the first story wouldn't be the main plot, but a "gaiden", an indepentient story with different characters, maybe some gnomes and kenders. It could be about a gnome who creates a second devices for time-travel, a kender "finds" it, and now they are in the middle of a fight between two different guild of chronomancers. One of the them who discover the time sphere where Raitlin becomes the one god, and they are allowed to live there, and the other from the ucrony where the king-priest stole divinity to Krynn pantheon. In the surface it would be a epic-comedy but deep down it's a story with some pieces of tragedy.

I feel true curiosity about how would be Dragonlance characters with the look style of Disney artists. Why not these by IDW comics? This has got partnership with Disney and Hasbro. I wonder about a possible Disney-Allspark studios coproduction about D&D or all D&D productions only can be by Paramount. Why not also D&D in a crossover Capcom-Hasbroverse?

Dark Sun will arrive after the handbook of psionic powers.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Dragonlance has been the most sold fantasy saga after the Lord of the Rings.

Sorry, but it's not even close.

And Lord of the Rings isn't number one any more either - Harry Potter is, with sales of something like 450 million. Depending on what you include as "fantasy" Dragonlance just about makes the top 20, with sales of around 20 million, on a par with Brian Jacques' Redwall series.

 

[Hurin70]

Dragonlance? Gritty?!?!

The only sense in which I would describe Dragonlance as 'gritty' is this one:

 

[Parmandur]

Sorry, but it's not even close.

And Lord of the Rings isn't number one any more either - Harry Potter is, with sales of something like 450 million. Depending on what you include as "fantasy" Dragonlance just about makes the top 20, with sales of around 20 million, on a par with Brian Jacques' Redwall series.

Lord of the Rings has still outsold any given Harry Potter book, though, which is interesting.

Dragonlance appears to have sold much,ich less than Twilight, so it's not even the best selling romantic melodrama fantasy written by a wholesome Mormon.

 

[agrayday]

Is there a code-word for this release, or has that stopped?
Not that it would be much help based on past releases.... The actual previous content releases usually provide more clues than their silly code-words.