D&D 5E D&D Needs New Settings

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I think mindflayers would make great colonialist invaders.

The issue would be having a race that they would be colonizing. I don't think it would be a problem if it was humans, gnomes, elves, or just general humanoids, but it would be problematic for Orcs, Goblinoids, or Drow.

 

[Zardnaar]

The issue would be having a race that they would be colonizing. I don't think it would be a problem if it was humans, gnomes, elves, or just general humanoids, but it would be problematic for Orcs, Goblinoids, or Drow.

I don't think they're gonna go their and in D&D it's not inconceivable for the colonized to win because of magic.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Fighting off colonists.

That’s not edgy.

 

[Zardnaar]

That’s not edgy.

It's a big poo storm so I don't see them going there.

We're gonna get bland boring inoffensive mtg conversions.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's a big poo storm so I don't see them going there.

We're gonna get bland boring inoffensive mtg conversions.

You find the mtg settings bland and inoffensive?

I have a feeling we won’t find common ground easily on this general topic.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I would say that "bland" is not a good way to describe Ravnica. I'm not a big fan of M:tG settings as D&D books, but I definitely would not call any setting that has demonic circus performers and boar-worshipping barbaric anarchists "bland."

 

[Zardnaar]

You find the mtg settings bland and inoffensive?

I have a feeling we won’t find common ground easily on this general topic.

I own them I probably wouldn't run them as written.

Probably just mine them. There's was just sanitized Greek gods, Ravnica bit more interesting.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

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?

I'd like to see a legit magitech setting. Not Eberron, where it's the dawn of the magic-industrial revolution. I mean legitimate magical technology, we're talking ray-wands and FTL and cryonic suspension and the like. Star Trek or Star Wars, but openly Science-Fantasy instead of hiding behind a veneer of Normal Science. (And yes, I know Starfinder did this. I think D&D should pull a Paizo and steal the overall idea, but implement it in their own way.)

Also? Just write a damn gazetteer or enchiridion or whatever for the world of Nentir Vale/PoLand etc. It's a setting many aren't familiar with and which would be of interest to folks, I'm sure.

Finally, just hire Chris Perkins to put his work into official form. Iomandra is AWESOME--it's a setting of dragon pirate princes, what's not to love? I'm dead certain whatever campaign worlds he came up with would be instant classics.

 

[Argyle King]

I'd like to see a legit magitech setting. Not Eberron, where it's the dawn of the magic-industrial revolution. I mean legitimate magical technology, we're talking ray-wands and FTL and cryonic suspension and the like. Star Trek or Star Wars, but openly Science-Fantasy instead of hiding behind a veneer of Normal Science. (And yes, I know Starfinder did this. I think D&D should pull a Paizo and steal the overall idea, but implement it in their own way.)

Also? Just write a damn gazetteer or enchiridion or whatever for the world of Nentir Vale/PoLand etc. It's a setting many aren't familiar with and which would be of interest to folks, I'm sure.

Finally, just hire Chris Perkins to put his work into official form. Iomandra is AWESOME--it's a setting of dragon pirate princes, what's not to love? I'm dead certain whatever campaign worlds he came up with would be instant classics.

See my mushroom idea above

 

[EzekielRaiden]

See my mushroom idea above

I mean, that's definitely in the same direction, but it sounds too much Green Sky for what I'm seeking. That is, this sounds like technology is distinctly inferior or even unused, whereas I'm hoping for something a bit like "Shadowrun without the grimdark" and with spaceships and interstellar colonies. Dragon CEOs, artificial intelligences, wage-mages, and technobabble.