Dragonlance Dragonlance "Reimagined".

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Right. I think that's kind of a weird knock-on effect to all this. People are far too willing to accept WotC not doing proper settings anymore because they know the fans will fill any gaps on DM's Guild, or they can simply use the old lore. I'm all for the settings opening up on DM's Guild, all for fans writing stuff for settings and putting it up on DM's Guild, and all for using the old lore. I object to WotC intentionally doing a half-ass job of it in the first place. I'm a huge Spelljammer fan and I can't help but think the recent tiny slipcase is a bad joke. There's no there there.

Knock-on effect or no, it's important.

Holding out for WotC to give fans everything they want with regards to any particular setting is a fool's errand, because they would never be able to cover everything that everybody wants. If the options available to me are half of what I want or nothing at all, I don't feel too bad about accepting half, particularly when I know I can supplement it with additional material from elsewhere.

End of the day, I don't need 5E Planescape - I know the setting, I know how it works, and I have pretty much all of the 2E books sitting on a bookshelf next to me, so outside of some mechanical support, I can jury-rig pretty much anything I might want without issue.

The people who need 5E Planescape are the people who would find it an interesting setting to play around in, but haven't had the chance to realize that yet because they've never been introduced to it. And to the end of introducing the setting to newer players, this seems like it could do the job well enough.

Doesn't mean I don't still want that 5E Manual of the Planes though...

 

[Azzy]

They are appealing to people who will buy any pretty product with the right name on it.

At least a couple of the detractors of the new DL adventure have expressed that they will buy it anyway just because it's DL, so...

 

[Bitbrain]

Reply to OP.

I’m really excited for the upcoming Dragonlance adventure and considering the number of creative liberties I myself have taken with Dragonlance in my home games, it would be rather hypocritical of me to complain about any changes WOTC is making to the setting.

 

[Micah Sweet]

At least a couple of the detractors of the new DL adventure have expressed that they will buy it anyway just because it's DL, so...

Proof of my point.

 

[overgeeked]

Holding out for WotC to give fans everything they want with regards to any particular setting is a fool's errand, because they would never be able to cover everything that everybody wants.

Not everything everyone wants, just doing a decent job at representing their IP in the current edition of the game. Even that is a fool’s errand, apparently.

 

[Demetrios1453]

As I posted in the other DL thread:


So... given all the jumping to conclusions we have in this thread, all based off of fairly minimal info, hopefully they will be releasing more info soon to clarify things. In any case, even with the info we've been given, there are lots of non-canon busting possibilities:

Maybe they're going for a darker, bloodier campaign where there is no divine and healing magic, at least until near the end. Their references to war movies and 1917 could definitely point in this direction.

Maybe, simply enough, the campaign actually takes place later than the events they allude to, and those events are just background to what has happened to the party in the past.

Maybe the characters in this campaign have found some long-lost artifact, or are parallels to Goldmoon in discovering the old gods.

Maybe it's something we all haven't even thought of.

Maybe they bust canon completely.

Maybe they will provide different options from the above.

But... it's all maybes at this point. We definitely need more info before drawing definitive conclusions here...

 

[Vaalingrade]

Lawful good black robes?
Seriously??

Makes more sense than Good Any Mages of High Sorcery, considering they run a charnel house and call it a test, then murder anyone who doesn't want to step into the suicide booth.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Edit: Whatever nothing to see. Not getting dragged down this hole again.

 

[JEB]

I am definitely unimpressed that we now have the 2022 and 2023 schedules and still the "entirely new setting" we were told about in 2021 has not materialized. Presumably it's dead, because Winninger hinted it might not survive, and that means WotC have quietly executed at least three entirely new settings designed for 5E, all fairly late in the design process (because Winninger said they'd already done that twice before). I am skeptical that all three can possibly have been "that bad".

I really hope you're wrong that they've dropped the plans, because I was really interested to see what a new, modern-sensibilities D&D setting might look like.

 

[JEB]

Speaking for myself, I think doing Planescape in a three-book slipcase format can work out alright as long as they don't try to cram in too much.

Based on how they handled Spelljammer, I don't think you have to worry about that...