D&D 5E 3 Classic Settings Coming To 5E?

On the D&D Celebration – Sunday, Inside the D&D Studio with Liz Schuh and Ray Winninger, Winninger said that WotC will be shifting to a greater emphasis on settings in the coming years.

This includes three classic settings getting active attention, including some that fans have been actively asking for. He was cagey about which ones, though.

The video below is an 11-hour video, but the information comes in the last hour for those who want to scrub through.



Additionally, Liz Schuh said there would be more anthologies, as well as more products to enhance game play that are not books.

Winninger mentioned more products aimed at the mainstream player who can't spend immense amount of time absorbing 3 tomes.

Ray and Liz confirmed there will be more Magic: The Gathering collaborations.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I don't really get for what people need the sourcebooks for these generic fantasy settings such as Greyhawk, Dragonlance and what have you. The sourcebooks for the older editions are still available, so the fluff is there, and as they're medievalish fantasy setting the existing rules already cover pretty much everything you need to run them. More specialised setting that have pretty different material cultures, different takes on species and versions of classes like Dark Sun or weird stuff like magic space ships might need more rule support to be smoothly run with the current edition.

 

[DariusArgent]

oh you sweet child of...winter

Well if Dark Sun will by some miracle be released as a campaign book it will be ridiculously overhauled and people will complain that it isn't Dark Sun.

 

[Pixelllance]

I don't really get for what people need the sourcebooks for these generic fantasy settings such as Greyhawk, Dragonlance and what have you. The sourcebooks for the older editions are still available, so the fluff is there, and as they're medievalish fantasy setting so the existing rules already cover pretty much everything you need to run them. More specialised setting that have pretty different material cultures, different takes on species and versions of classes like Dark Sun or weird stuff like magic space ships might need more rule support to be smoothly run with the current edition.

You confuse Necessity with Appreciation.

 

[Ath-kethin]

The most important part of Spelljammer is the actual spelljaming helm, and Dungeon of the Mad Mage provided that. Merging Spelljammer and Planescape seems foolish to me, inasmuch as as they accomplish two completely different things.

You can't fly a Spelljammer to the elemental Plane of Fire, and if you're high enough level to plane shift you probably don't need a helm to get around anyway.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Dark Sun is too hardcore and grimdark so I don't think that one will be included too.

The biggest complaints I see about 5e is it isn't sufficiently hardcore and grimdark.

 

[DariusArgent]

The biggest complaints I see about 5e is it isn't sufficiently hardcore and grimdark.

Oh trust me, there will be bigger complaints once the grimdark sets in.

 

[Ringtail]

My best guesses are:

Dark Sun
Planescape (and Spelljammer?)
Greyhawk

I've seen a lot of discussion and desire for these three. Greyhawk is iffy, as some people seem to think why do we need ANOTHER generic fantasy setting? But the Greyhawk diehards will give you a million reasons why it's important, and I tend to agree! Plus, we already have Greyhawk in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, so I could understand them wanting to provide details for newer DM's who have that book but not the older Greyhawk Material.

I think Planescape is more likely than Spelljammer. While both get talked about a lot, I think the planes are a bigger part of D&D overall. Now don't crucify me, but I think you could almost maybe combine these two settings a little bit. If nautiloids exist in the Realms I don't see why we can't have Spelljammers in the Planes. I don't know a lot about either though, so I'm sure someone can give me loads of reasons why these two shouldn't be combined!

Dark Sun is super unique (in D&D at least) and influential. It also had a 4e release, making it one of the more recently published settings, alongside Eberron and the Realms. I think this one is basically guaranteed.

Mystara, Birthright and Dragonlance don't seem relevant enough. I would be very surprised if we saw them.

 

[dave2008]

Dragonlance is too vanilla so I don't think it will be one of them.
Dark Sun is too hardcore and grimdark so I don't think that one will be included too.
Spelljammer maybe? Space-faring fantasy is neat.
Also Lorwyn > Eldraine so I hope for a Lorwyn setting book.

So you got one maybe, what about the other two?

 

[Cadence]

Ravenloft, either Dark Sun or Spell Jammer, and either Greyhawk or Kara Tur. If the last one, they're not going to announce it unless they've got a creative staff covering most of Asia.

 

[DariusArgent]

So you got one maybe, what about the other two?

Planescape and Greyhawk I guess?