D&D 5E Which three classic settings do you think WotC will publish in 2022-23? (Fixed)

[ninjayeti]

I think Greyhawk will be one. 5E already has GH pretty strongly woven into it, and the only thing we are really missing is an official setting book.

1) We have official WotC adventures set in FR, Ravenloft, and GH. GH is the only one without a setting book.
2) Two of the "Guide" books are named after GH characters.
3) GH is one of the four pantheons described in the PHB (two of the others - FR and Eberron - have their own setting books).
4) GH was created by Gary Gygax and was the first official D&D setting. With Saltmarsh and TftYP Wizards talked about wanting newer players have a continuity of experience with older generations of players. No setting serves that interest better than GH.

The main counterargument to GH has always been that it fills the same niche as FR. And that was a good argument when we only had a couple of setting books out. But with Stryxhaven we are going to have what, seven(?) official setting books with four or five more in some stage of development. At this point it is hard to argue we can't have two that fill the "standard D&D assumptions" role.

 

[Dausuul]

What I picked: Planescape, Dark Sun, and Dragonlance.

What I wish they would do: Dark Sun, Nentir Vale, Blackmoor.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I picked Planescape, Darksun, and Forgotten Realms.

I picked Planescape because they kept taking about the Multiverse, a clear hint, Planescape is a Tier 1 setting in popularity, and it's a chance to unify things and deal with some glaring omissions in 5e like no manual of the planes and the 3 or more missing Celestial races (mainly Archons, Guardianals, and Celestial Eladarin, but also possibly Asura and Illends).

I picked Darksun because someone else made a good point that lead me onto a chain of insights that made me realize we're likely getting a UA linked to it next month, before it gets released next year, perhaps in the Spring. Darksun is also a Tier 1 setting as I'd every other classic setting they've published so far.

I picked the Forgotten Realms because I think 2023's classic setting is the revisit Ray mentioned before, so all the reasons for am FR revisit are in effect. It's also classic setting, older then most of the other Tier 1 settings in fact. Also the timing is crazy good synergy with an FR $100,000,000 movie and BG3 full release coming out in 2023. Plus they will have so much Forgotten Realms MtG art by then that the art costs for the book will be nearly nothing.

Most of all those 3 picks properly will complete Tier 1 in popularity Setting Books for classic settings as Eberron and Ravenloft are already out.

I don't think it will be council of wyrms because Fizban's as close as we are getting to council of wyrms.

I don't think it's Spelljammer, because Spelljammer is the cameo.

Greyhawk will be saved for 2024.

Really I dare anyone to refute my logic.

 

[Mercurius]

Cameo - Mystera in a red box release version. Everyone who was around in the 80's knows the red box.

That isn't a "cameo" unless the box itself is something else, say a starter set. Is that what you mean? A cameo is a surprise walk-on tiny part in a movie by a well-know actor, sometimes uncredited. So what you say would make sense if it were a starter set, and the adventure was set in Mystara.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Really I dare anyone to refute my logic.

Ooooo, dare taken!

I'll dispute the Forgotten Realms one. I mean, the SCAG exists. I know that is just the Sword Coast, but Eberron's book is really about Khorvaire (there are what, three pages for the other continents total?) Plus, I don't see how one could lump in the entirety of the rest of FR into one book without it being monstrous or like a boring encyclopedia, and I doubt either is happening. The 5E team seems happy to explore smaller locations and regions every year with adventure books, and I don't think they'll break from that pattern much. The upcoming Boo book will likely stop in an FR region (I'm hoping Lantan), so I expect the pattern to continue.

The setting I think that takes FR spot should be obvious; Dragonlance. The new slew of books are coming out sometime next year, set back in the time of the OG novels. Makes complete sense to release a campaign setting around the same time or a few months after.

If I've learned anything on EnWorld, it's always bet against a 5E FR Campaign Setting! You'll never be wrong!

 

[Scribe]

Planescape - Planes, Gods, Alignment, Sigil, LETS GO WIZARDS.

Dark Sun - Psions, 'Sword and Sorcery, without the problematic'. See: Ravenloft Guide. Still 'correct' to the style and tropes, but cleaned up enough for the modern audience.

Dragonlance - Base line Fantasy World, tied in with the Novels. "High Fantasy, Good vs Evil". Tied in with the Novel release.

 

[embee]

Planescape is kind of a given, especially with the Mordenkainen's Monster Manual Of The Mouth Of The Multiverse Of Madness.

But I don't think Dragonlance will be one because I never underestimate the power of holding a grudge and could see WOTC willing to let the setting die on the vine as payback for the lawsuit.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I don't think that the commonly expected lineups are going to happen. I think at least one, maybe two, of the classic settings will be surprises to most the people here.

My picks are Dragonlance, Mystara, and Nentir Vale. If not NV, I think the third will be just as much of a surprise as NV would be.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Ooooo, dare taken!

I'll dispute the Forgotten Realms one. I mean, the SCAG exists. I know that is just the Sword Coast, but Eberron's book is really about Khorvaire (there are what, three pages for the other continents total?) Plus, I don't see how one could lump in the entirety of the rest of FR into one book without it being monstrous or like a boring encyclopedia, and I doubt either is happening. The 5E team seems happy to explore smaller locations and regions every year with adventure books, and I don't think they'll break from that pattern much. The upcoming Boo book will likely stop in an FR region (I'm hoping Lantan), so I expect the pattern to continue.

The setting I think that takes FR spot should be obvious; Dragonlance. The new slew of books are coming out sometime next year, set back in the time of the OG novels. Makes complete sense to release a campaign setting around the same time or a few months after.

If I've learned anything on EnWorld, it's always bet against a 5E FR Campaign Setting! You'll never be wrong!

They don't do all of FR, just the traditional Faerun like they have in literally every other edition in 5e since FR was first released, except 5e where only the Swordcoast mattered.

And it's most likely the revisit that Ray mentioned so that means a classic setting that already got some kind of campaign setting book, but which was unsatisfactory enough to demand a new one.

And I'll be right about FR one if these centuries. Hey I was right about the Forgotten Realms getting a Comnander Legends set!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I don't think that the commonly expected lineups are going to happen. I think at least one, maybe two, of the classic settings will be surprises to most the people here.

My picks are Dragonlance, Mystara, and Nentir Vale. If not NV, I think the third will be just as much of a surprise as NV would be.

I don't think they will be surprises at all, this is a business so the most popular Tier one settings will be first, and this is born out by the fact that every classic setting D&D book so far has been from the Tier 1.