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

[Bolares]

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.

I'd love a second book for Eberron1 Not only because I love Eberron, but because EVERYONE would be so pissed!

 

[Urriak Uruk]

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.

Yeah it's not surprising that a lot of D&D players, many of whom started with 5E, like FR when the majority of adventures and products are all set there. It is the ground-zero for new 5E players who want a plug-in-and-play world.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

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.

Agreed, though the survey answers for Dragonlance seemed the least "product pitchy" out of everything else. It seemed incredibly boring compared to others, including Mystara and Birthright.

 

[darjr]

I’ve asked how long this survey will be up but if you haven’t taken it yet and want to do it soon

 

[Scribe]

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.

Yeah for sure. I just remember the late 80s, I had those books, and I would go over to my friends place, and his Mom was reading Legends.

His Mom wasnt a D&D gamer, but she read Fantasy works. Thats what I mean by Dragonlance having an appeal that was perhaps more centered on the Novels, more remembered for the Novels, than perhaps FR.

As I continue to fail to articulate.

The Novels for Dragonlance mean more to Dragonlance, than the Novels for FR, mean to FR, when looking at the totality of media/material for those settings?

 

[Bolares]

The novels are the reason I don't want to DM in Dragonlance. I feel like the biggest story was already told, and my table would be playing second fiddle to that narrative. Same reason I don't want to play in middle earth.

 

[Parmandur]

Agreed, though the survey answers for Dragonlance seemed the least "product pitchy" out of everything else. It seemed incredibly boring compared to others, including Mystara and Birthright.

Unless the product pitch is to do a Curse of Strahd for the DL modules.

 

[Scribe]

The novels are the reason I don't want to DM in Dragonlance. I feel like the biggest story was already told, and my table would be playing second fiddle to that narrative. Same reason I don't want to play in middle earth.

For sure there is something to be said for that. I like the setting, but I dont really need to play in it?

 

[LordEntrails]

The novels are the reason I don't want to DM in Dragonlance. I feel like the biggest story was already told, and my table would be playing second fiddle to that narrative. Same reason I don't want to play in middle earth.

I get it. Same reason I always resisted playing any of the Star Wars RPGs. But I have to say Rogue One has given me reason to reconsider that. You are still not telling The Epic Story, but you are telling some pretty awesome stories.

I still feel the only way to tell The Epic Story for a setting, is to have your own setting. And I may get back to that some day. But for now I run games in the Realms. We have fun, they are 'epic' enough for us to keep coming back every week for years, so yea. No complaints

 

[Aldarc]

I'd love a second book for Eberron1 Not only because I love Eberron, but because EVERYONE would be so pissed!

If I had not written a TED Talk essay about the Nentir Vale, I would have definitely picked Eberron. Also, I would be all for a second book of character options or at least a good adventure or two set in Eberron.

The novels are the reason I don't want to DM in Dragonlance. I feel like the biggest story was already told, and my table would be playing second fiddle to that narrative. Same reason I don't want to play in middle earth.

I actually wrote in my love letter to Nentir Vale that I found all the FR novels and legacy lore an intimidating factor for DMing a game set in FR, which was one reason why I found the Nentir Vale so liberating by comparison.

I don't have the same issue with Eberron because (a) all novels are non-canonical, and (b) Keith Baker and crew wrote the setting to have unanswerable mysteries that are up to the DM.