D&D 5E D&D Needs New Settings

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Just to clarify, I do not mean that D&D needs new books for M:tG settings, or settings from previous editions, or anything else that already exists. I mean, D&D needs completely new, official settings created by WotC (at least one). What do you think? What would you like to see if they were to make another setting?

 

[Khelon Testudo]

I think we should try and think of what such a setting would contain that previous or existing settings don't. Perhaps a largely undersea setting? Whole civilisations of Tritons and Sahuagin, with domed air-breather ghettos. Submarines, dolphin- or shark-riders, mass transport in the belly of magically enhanced whales. Ray folk. Ray-folk mindflayers. Sahuagin vampires, hell, new generas of aquatic undead.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

If there were to be a completely new setting, it would need to be something that stretched the boundaries of what D&D can be, at least to the same extent that Dark Sun, Planescape and Eberron did. WotC has plenty of standard fantasy worlds waiting in the docks, no need for another.

 

[R_J_K75]

I mean, D&D needs completely new settings (at least one).

Funny I was just thinking this the other day, and almost started a thread, but after giving it thought didnt have any really good ideas.

Perhaps a largely undersea setting?

This would be fun, but the 2E supplement Sea of Fallen Stars did a really good job of doing this already when coupled with the Of Ships and Sea supplement.

If there were to be a completely new setting, it would need to be something that stretched the boundaries of what D&D can be

I agree. I'm not saying it cant be done and I'm sure that someone would come up with something but it would have to be something incredibly unique to standout and not be a reskin of another setting compared with something that has previously been done.

I just had an idea for a setting where the overall theme would be a prison/incarceration world where all the players are either inmates or law enforcement, but that's all I came up with.

 

[Talltomwright]

Yeah, I would be up for something with real flavor that isn’t kitchen sink fantasy. I remember the surprise of Dark Sun when it came out - it felt so different to Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. Would like to be surprised again!

 

[Minigiant]

I think D&D needs to do at least big "political drama* setting and one real War of the Pantheons setting.

By political drama, I mean kings, lords, and government. Have more concrete feels to the powerful NPCs and tie in the idea that adventurers are doing the work nobles can't or won't do with their power or are using the adventurers as cheap labor to clear out monsters for development.

For War of the Pantheons, D&D should really have a setting where the religious warfare is hot on the cosmic end. No more of this God X hates God Y and Archdemon W but all they do is sic a dozen clerics, druids, paladins, and warlocks at each other scattered across 4 continents, 3 planes, and 1 sea so no one sees the fighting. No man. NotOdin should call out NotZeus for the mantle of Sky God and march human, dwarven, and drow berserkers down to smash some human, satyr, and orc hoplites. A setting where player characters have some real race, class, party, and personality restrictions and players support crusades because the dungeon is in enemy territory.

As D&D moves to the idea that you can build the PC you want, it should support settings that shine bright lights on the advantages and disadvantages of how your characters are made and how they act codified in rules and lore players fully know when they step into the setting.

 

[R_J_K75]

As D&D moves to the idea that you can build the PC you want, it should support settings that shine bright lights on the advantages and disadvantages of how your characters are made and how they act codified in rules and lore players fully know when they step into the setting.

I dont think youre allowed to give a player, their PC (race & class) any drawbacks, penalty's or disadvantages anymore.

 

[Khelon Testudo]

This would be fun, but the 2E supplement Sea of Fallen Stars did a really good job of doing this already when coupled with the Of Ships and Sea supplement.

It's a supplement I've never heard of. But I'm imagining a campaign where the PC's never see the surface - if indeed the world has one.

 

[R_J_K75]

It's a supplement I've never heard of. But I'm imagining a campaign where the PC's never see the surface - if indeed the world has one.

Its in the Forgotton Realms. The surface worlders call it the Sea of Fallen Stars, or the Inner Sea, the aquatic races call it Seros. Great supplement. Worth the read. Think its by Steven Schend.

 

[R_J_K75]

It's a supplement I've never heard of. But I'm imagining a campaign where the PC's never see the surface - if indeed the world has one.

Sea of Fallen Stars (2e) - Wizards of the Coast | Forgotten Realms | Dungeon Masters Guild

Sea of Fallen Stars (2e) - Immerse Yourself in the Inner Sea! For years beyond measure, folk of Faer?n have sailed and swum the Inner Sea from the

www.dmsguild.com

If you look during the launch of 3E, WotC released a bunch of free pdfs on their website, they were still there not long ago and think this may have been one.