D&D (2024) What older setting do you want to see next?

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

If you're not interested in the old lore, why would you care about the setting at all? You'd be just as happy with a new setting.

Not quite, nostalgia is still a thing. Though I never played starfrontiers I remember when it came out and the cool looking cover, etc. A setting is not simply every detail of lore, it is also just an impression or inspiration that it provides. I have history with many of the settings if no specific attachment to the lore.

I mean you have the lore you want, why hate on others you would like refresh, reboot, or whatever you call it. There is not one true way to play a setting. Let others have their time in the sun.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I disagree. There is nothing sacred about old lore. It is still there If you want to use it. Let the new have some new.

I’ve been generally happy with the setting releases so far

I agree. I just think it should be completely new, as opposed to using old names for branding and nostalgia purposes.

 

[Digdude]

The thing about Birthright is that its as close to an epic DnD setting in a Game of Thrones setting you can get without copyright infringment. The setting had an Iron Throne before GoT. All of humans have seperate cultures. Magic is low but epic and the demi humans are tolkienish. That being said, it could use a lot of clean up.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Not quite, nostalgia is still a thing. Though I never played starfrontiers I remember when it came out and the cool looking cover, etc. A setting is not simply every detail of lore, it is also just an impression or inspiration that it provides. I have history with many of the settings if no specific attachment to the lore.

I mean you have the lore you want, why hate on others you would like refresh, reboot, or whatever you call it. There is not one true way to play a setting. Let others have their time in the sun.

I'm not hating on anyone. I just see no reason for reboots to exist that isn't financial.

 

[overgeeked]

I disagree. There is nothing sacred about old lore. It is still there If you want to use it. Let the new have some new.

I’ve been generally happy with the setting releases so far

The answer is to then simply publish actually new stuff. Players who want new (or new to them) are satisfied while the players who like the old lore aren’t poked in the eye.

 

[Haplo781]

The thing about Birthright is that its as close to an epic DnD setting in a Game of Thrones setting you can get without copyright infringment. The setting had an Iron Throne before GoT. All of humans have seperate cultures. Magic is low but epic and the demi humans are tolkienish. That being said, it could use a lot of clean up.

I'd personally rather see this addressed by an Eldraine book (MtG setting). Which is coincidentally getting a revisit next year.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

The answer is to then simply publish actually new stuff. Players who want new (or new to them) are satisfied while the players who like the old lore aren’t poked in the eye.

Look at my next response for a clarifying message. I would like an update of old settings, not old lore of old settings

See post #41, sorry I can’t seem to link on my phone

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I'm not hating on anyone.

It doesn’t feel like it. You are saying I can’t have what I want simply because it is not the right way to do it in your opinion. Maybe hate is to strong but it feels like you are saying what I want is bad/wrong.

I just see no reason for reboots to exist that isn't financial.

Ok, I mean this is true of the whole game. I don’t get your point here.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It doesn’t feel like it. You are saying I can’t have what I want simply because it is not the right way to do it in your opinion. Maybe hate is to strong but it feels like you are saying what I want is bad/wrong.

Ok, I mean this is true of the whole game. I don’t get your point here.

I don't understand what you mean. What's true of the whole game? I'm talking about settings and, by extension, fictional worlds, not rule sets (if that's what you're referring to).

 

[Lanefan]

If you're not interested in the old lore, why would you care about the setting at all?

Because updated, expanded, and shiny new maps are good to have no matter what lore they might attach to any of it; IME map-making is perhaps the biggest single time-sink when designing a homebrew setting, which means using someone else's maps and homebrewing the rest is way easier.

And who knows, some of the "new lore" they add in might even be worthwhile. You can always can the rest and replace it with your own.