D&D 5E New D&D Survey, with some in-depth setting questions

[Henadic Theologian]

You know being a kitchen sink isn't a flaw right? Eberron is a kitchen sink and I still love it...

The term was coined as a pejorative, being a diverse and flexible setting is a better way to put that. It's also more reflective of our world for the better, so it's more believable and immersive then narrow themed worlds lacking in multiple cultures.

I hope they share the results of the setting part of the survey.

 

[Scribe]

The term was coined as a pejorative, being a diverse and flexible setting is a better way to put that. It's also more reflective of our world for the better, so it's more believable and immersive then narrow themed worlds lacking in multiple cultures.

You can have a diverse and flexible setting without being a " insert non-offensive term replacing kitchen sink here" setting like Eberron/FR.

 

[Yaarel]

Heh, an artistic term for "kitchen sink" is "eclectic".

 

[Yaarel]

I wish the Forgotten Realms religion was instead a "kitchen sink".

 

[LordEntrails]

Granted FR had many more novels once, but Novels and that core story in popular history, likely meant more to DL, than they did to the history of FR which had more setting, and adventures, as well as novels.

I have yet to meet a DM running DL tat doesn't want to just retell the stories from the books. Not sure what that says about this survey or the importance of the books to each setting. But I'm sure someone might.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Forgotten Realms HATERS put those explanations up for the Forgotten Realms popularity, not to fans and its FR fans who are going to pick FR as their favourite setting, so your throwing in the biases of those who dislike the Realms. Now the Kitchen Sink crap is mitigated by the fact that they found a more accurate and fairer way of putting that, flexible, so that is okay.

You make a good point about discrediting the argument from the haters as to why FR is popular.

Sorry, you're saying that in previous survey, folks who hate FR actually picked Forgotten Realms as their favorite setting and then filled in responses to support biases against it?

And you've somehow twisted a pretty normal pro for Forgotten Realms (its creative flexibility) into "Actually HATERS did that because they think FR is a kitchen sink!"

I'm sorry not everyone likes FR the same way as you do (I run an FR game right now), but just because the poll doesn't reflect your favorite parts of the setting doesn't mean there's a cabal of FR haters trying to sabotage D&D surveys.

 

[Parmandur]

I have yet to meet a DM running DL tat doesn't want to just retell the stories from the books. Not sure what that says about this survey or the importance of the books to each setting. But I'm sure someone might.

As I understand it, Dragonlance was never a hugely successful game line past the DL modules, whereas it was quite a popular fiction line that's still in print, 15 years after the last DL game product. Forgotten Realms was a hugely successful game line with a robust & healthy fiction side racket.

Thinking about it, it doesn't surprise me that there is a pretty strict identity between Dragonlance novel fans and all Dragonlance fans.

 

[Parmandur]

Sorry, you're saying that in previous survey, folks who hot FR actually picked Forgotten Realms as their favorite setting and then filled in responses to support biases against it?

And you've somehow twisted a pretty normal pro for Forgotten Realms (its creative flexibility) into "Actually HATERS did that because they think FR is a kitchen sink!"

I'm sorry not everyone likes FR the same way as you do (I run an FR game right now), but just because the poll doesn't reflect your favorite parts of the setting doesn't mean there's a cabal of FR haters trying to sabotage D&D surveys.

I think he's more upset about the identification of the FR as the basic "I started here" Setting. The Setting used in checks notes the Starter Set.

 

[Bolares]

I'm sorry not everyone likes FR the same way as you do (I run an FR game right now), but just because the poll doesn't reflect your favorite parts of the setting doesn't mean there's a cabal of FR haters trying to sabotage D&D surveys.

I'd go beyond it and say that the survey even gives us a space to describe other parts of the setting that make it your favorite. That's what I did for Eberron.

 

[Parmandur]

I suspect they are actually only interested in information about some of the settings, the others on have questions to balance out the survey. They already know what they are going to do with FR for example, so the answers pertaining to that can be thrown away, but things like "how jokey should Spelljammer 5e be?" and "how veiled should slavery references be in Dark Sun?" are currently undecided.

I think they have product pitches on file for all of these Settings, for when they want to discuss potential projects. Doesn't mean they'll go anywhere, but clearly they haven't forgot they exist.