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

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Combine that with the earlier point that really aren't any game mechanics to add, and I conclude that there's just no worthwhile reason to update Greyhawk.

Greyhawk would be purely a nostalgia play for the 50th anniversary. If it doesn't show up in 2024, it's not showing up.

 

[Haplo781]

Greyhawk would be purely a nostalgia play for the 50th anniversary. If it doesn't show up in 2024, it's not showing up.

Could make it the default setting again.

 

[Mecheon]

Could make it the default setting again.

Why, though?

FR's the one that your average person is going to know, its the one with the massive amount of popular games to it (With only PS: Torment being an exception), its the one with the known books, its the one that can freely admit any of the various new races and stuff, its the one that an average person would think "Ah yes, Dungeons and Dragons" about.

Greyhawk's only appeal is to the nostalgia crowd. It doesn't have any draw over what FR can do, plus every time someone suggests adding in new player option I'm told this'll destroy everything that makes Greyhawk Greyhawk and we should just be fine with the default four (And maybe gnomes if they're feeling generous)

"You can't play as the fun player options that people specifically want to play and enjoy playing" is not what I'd call a good draw

 

[Parmandur]

Greyhawk would be purely a nostalgia play for the 50th anniversary. If it doesn't show up in 2024, it's not showing up.

Well, Winninger has said that a Setting previously covered in 5E is up for a "revisit" in 2024, and the three likely ca dilated are Forgotten Realms (obviously), Eberron (plausible, a surprising percentage of the mechanics not being updated between Monsters of the Multiverse and the new Core are Eberron specific, also a 20th anniversary), and Greyhawk (Ghoats of Saltmarsh, 50th anniversary nostalgia play).

I do agree.it is unlikely if not done in 2024, but it is a strong contender.

 

[Parmandur]

Why, though?

FR's the one that your average person is going to know, its the one with the massive amount of popular games to it (With only PS: Torment being an exception), its the one with the known books, its the one that can freely admit any of the various new races and stuff, its the one that an average person would think "Ah yes, Dungeons and Dragons" about.

Greyhawk's only appeal is to the nostalgia crowd. It doesn't have any draw over what FR can do, plus every time someone suggests adding in new player option I'm told this'll destroy everything that makes Greyhawk Greyhawk and we should just be fine with the default four (And maybe gnomes if they're feeling generous)

"You can't play as the fun player options that people specifically want to play and enjoy playing" is not what I'd call a good draw

The spoiler.play here for OneD&D purposes are Feats. With Feats moving into Core and being ventral to Background, options that are a bit more specific than those in the PHB are wide open design space. And Greyhawk has all sorts of 3E nostalgia callbacks that can be done there.

 

[Remathilis]

Thunder Rift. The time is right, we have the technology, children are the future!

 

[Haplo781]

Even the name "savage" is highly problematic.

My familiarity with it specifically means a savage animal, hence ferocious and aggressive.

Unfortunately, there was a (highly racist) anthropological use of the term to mean a nonliterate aboriginal culture.

The word itself can dehumanize, especially if referring vaguely to a "savage coast", where the savages probably refer to humans or humanoids.

It's also known as the Orc's Head Peninsula. Could go with that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Could make it the default setting again.

They could. But they won't.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thunder Rift. The time is right, we have the technology, children are the future!

I would love to see this as a standalone starter setting, although it seems like they want Phandelver and the Sword Coast to serve that role.

As always: WotC, please open up these settings you won't ever use on DMs Guild.

 

[Maxperson]

I would be good with Darksun, Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms, as long as we get a real setting and not the snippets of one we got with Spelljammer.