D&D 5E Revisited Setting News: Its not the 2023 Classic setting, but rather for 2024

[Marandahir]

whattheactualeff. Huh?

Paizo has decided as a company they will excise the concept of slavery from all their products.

 

[overgeeked]

I am beginning to feel I was blessed with one of the best groups ever.

Even back in 2e, we long rested. We handwaved healing though a combination of spells and items so that by the next day, we were at full health and had our spells prepped. It was even easier to justify in 3e, where "the cleric dumps all his remaining spell slots before bed into cure wounds" was basically the norm. Sometimes we'd handwave a 48 hour break where we rest, blow all spells, then rest again. (We called the BG healing, after the option to do so in BG2/Icewind Dale).

Somehow, my group never went 15 min nova, often ran into difficult fights and even died on occasion. We played Ravenloft in three editions and it never was a problem.

Lucky I guess.

Yeah, I can't get mine to stop. It's to the point where I have to either rewrite the game or play a different game altogether. The players just don't care about anything other than power gaming their way to maximum efficiency with an absolute bare minimum of risks. It is literally the most boring gaming. At least in the old days it was the players getting creative with their plans to stack the fights in their favor and win without having to roll initiative. I miss the days of war dogs, diverting rivers to flood dungeons, and flask of oil grenades. Now it's pure mindless grinding combat. At least other games that are designed to play that way are more inherently interesting in that regard. Like DCC with the Deeds, chaotic magic, and Quest For It.

 

[teitan]

Paizo has decided as a company they will excise the concept of slavery from all their products.

I’m aware but that was a bit of an extreme post in a thread about D&D revised settings.

 

[Marandahir]

I’m aware but that was a bit of an extreme post in a thread about D&D revised settings.

Fair response.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, I can't get mine to stop. It's to the point where I have to either rewrite the game or play a different game altogether. The players just don't care about anything other than power gaming their way to maximum efficiency with an absolute bare minimum of risks. It is literally the most boring gaming. At least in the old days it was the players getting creative with their plans to stack the fights in their favor and win without having to roll initiative. I miss the days of war dogs, diverting rivers to flood dungeons, and flask of oil grenades. Now it's pure mindless grinding combat. At least other games that are designed to play that way are more inherently interesting in that regard. Like DCC with the Deeds, chaotic magic, and Quest For It.

It sounds like you need to move to a different group. The rest of the group like what they like, which is fine, and you like what you like, which is also fine. There are all sorts of different groups out there. It's the people, not the rules.

 

[overgeeked]

And another one is revealed. So it's Dragonlance.

So we have:

Spelljammer or Planescape or Planejammer.

Dragonlance.

And what...two more?

Though honestly, with how they're not name dropping either Planescape or Spelljammer with the Multiverse UA, but straight up saying Dragonlance and Krynn for the newest UA...they're either merging PlaneSpell ScapeJammer or they're going to go with a generic name. Maybe this is the cameo after all. The nautaloids are the cameo. But then that special cover...hmm. Stop teasing us already and just drop the names.

 

[Parmandur]

And another one is revealed. So it's Dragonlance.

So we have:

Spelljammer or Planescape or Planejammer.

Dragonlance.

And what...two more?

Though honestly, with how they're not name dropping either Planescape or Spelljammer with the Multiverse UA, but straight up saying Dragonlance and Krynn for the newest UA...they're either merging PlaneSpell ScapeJammer or they're going to go with a generic name. Maybe this is the cameo after all. The nautaloids are the cameo. But then that special cover...hmm. Stop teasing us already and just drop the names.

The UA material from October was all Spelljammer, no Planescape elements. The hints other than that have all been Spelljammer specific.

I think they knew they couldn't test this stuff without admitting it was Krynn, same as the Strixhaven Subclasses last year. Too obvious. Spelljammer offers some plausible deniability.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

And another one is revealed. So it's Dragonlance.

So we have:

Spelljammer or Planescape or Planejammer.

Dragonlance.

And what...two more?

Unearthed Arcana articles don't predate the books their for by too long... I think in Strixhaven's case, it was as little as 5 months. Fizban's was I believe 6 months.

So, the Spelljammer and Dragonlance books are both probably coming out this year.

There is also another classic setting coming next year (2023) and a revisit possibly coming in 2024. I'd guess Planescape for next year as it seems less controversial than Dark Sun and was already teased a bit in Tasha's.

 

[Parmandur]

Unearthed Arcana articles don't predate the books their for by too long... I think in Strixhaven's case, it was as little as 5 months. Fizban's was I believe 6 months.

So, the Spelljammer and Dragonlance books are both probably coming out this year.

There is also another classic setting coming next year (2023) and a revisit possibly coming in 2024. I'd guess Planescape for next year as it seems less controversial than Dark Sun and was already teased a bit in Tasha's.

The Fizban Subclasses were 13 months, actually, but the Races were closer to the final release. But March is totally plausible for a September or November release, based on prior precedent, even for a Subclass. Race stuff tends to be a quicker turnaround. i think we will see Spelljammer in a few months, and Dragonlance in either September (as the yearly AL Adventure book revisiting the War of the Lance, with Setting elements) or November (if it's a more traditional Setting book).

 

[overgeeked]

Unearthed Arcana articles don't predate the books their for by too long... I think in Strixhaven's case, it was as little as 5 months. Fizban's was I believe 6 months.

So, the Spelljammer and Dragonlance books are both probably coming out this year.

There is also another classic setting coming next year (2023) and a revisit possibly coming in 2024. I'd guess Planescape for next year as it seems less controversial than Dark Sun and was already teased a bit in Tasha's.

Well, Travelers of the Multiverse dropped on 10/08/2021. So that's five months as of yesterday. I doubt they'd be dropping the book in four weeks without having already announced it. Could be, but it seems tight. Maybe the shipping apocalypse is delaying things a bit more than expected.