Yes, I remember it as $100,000 as well.Add a zero, IIRC. In 2003 money, too.
Plus the glory, undying fame and lots of freelancing work for WotC, including the chance to write novels for them.
Yes, I remember it as $100,000 as well.Add a zero, IIRC. In 2003 money, too.
Otzi would like a word, his kept him preserved for 5.000 years...NO MAGICAL TATTOOS; I swear to god. I'd pay a fortune for a D&D that does NOT offer me cheesy mechanical options for edgy magic tattou that does cool stuff. Every-damn-5e-kickstarter-has-them!
Iomandra.If WotC decided to conduct a new Setting Search like the one that resulted in Eberron (the best D&D Setting, IMO) now for 2024 5E, what sort of settings do you think would make the top 3? By "sort of" I mean aesthetics, subgenre, tone, influences, etc...
Separately but related: what would you pitch?
Ooh, hadn't considered that. Perhaps Nentir Vale is part of one of the larger islands, and the fall of its empire shattered what was once an effective peace? E.g. a country not directly ruled by any dragons meant all the dragons had to "play the game" on essentially the same footing.I would probably just put forth Chris Perkins's homebrew Iomandra and the Dragon Sea setting from 4e, since it basically involves island-hopping in a world ruled by dragons (and dragonborn). It would also probably be one of the best shots for getting the implied setting of the Nentir Vale back.
If you read the lore for Iomandra, a lot of it uses the implied setting of 4e including elements of the Nentir Vale/Nerath setting. Look at the map for Iomandra. It includes Arkhosia and archipelagos such as Bael Turath and Bael Nerath.Ooh, hadn't considered that. Perhaps Nentir Vale is part of one of the larger islands, and the fall of its empire shattered what was once an effective peace? E.g. a country not directly ruled by any dragons meant all the dragons had to "play the game" on essentially the same footing.
Would be fun to re-cast the Arkhosia/Bael Turath war in those lights. Instead of Arkhosia falling to artificial drought and desertification, perhaps the Turathi held in reserve a great and terrible weapon, to be used only as a last resort...and when they did, it shattered the continent of Arkhosia into a bazillion islands and the magical blowback from such a devastating assault destroyed what remained of Bael Turath too.
Dragons, lairing in such defensible places as they are wont to do, thus weathered the storm nearly unscathed, and many awoke from their slumbers to find mortals begging for draconic leadership...or at least that's the way they tell it today.
Nerath (given the name similarity) might have been the furthest colony from Bael Turath, spared both the fiend-blood and the worst of the Great Maelstrom. Something like Númenor's cadet branch of the royal house founding a colony in Middle-Earth and thus being able to escape the destruction of Númenor.
Sadly I was never able to get much than a tiny taste of the Iomandra lore, wasn't able to track down any good sources in years past. I'm guessing this has changed with time?If you read the lore for Iomandra, a lot of it uses the implied setting of 4e including elements of the Nentir Vale/Nerath setting. Look at the map for Iomandra. It includes Arkhosia and archipelagos such as Bael Turath and Bael Nerath.
Check my link in my earlier post, which you quoted. It's a ~30 page setting fan made primer.Sadly I was never able to get much than a tiny taste of the Iomandra lore, wasn't able to track down any good sources in years past. I'm guessing this has changed with time?
Just short stories as far as I know.Did Saladin Ahmed ever end up writing more Arab-adjacent fantasy after Throne of the Cresecent Moon?
The clearly…do…though? What?First of course is that WtC very very clearly don't like doing settings.
what was Van Richtens, then?Even when they do a setting product these days, it's generally an adventure in disguise.
Oh interesting when did they announce that?With 5.5 coming soon, a new product could well be the First Setting Of The Edition,
Have they made any setting books without new or expanded-from-the-dmg subsystems, if 5e? Maybe Ravnica counts since the guilds have very little mechanical backing…what else?They'll want it to use standard D&D rules by default, so there goes your no-resurrection setting concept too, and they're very clearly allergic to major new subsystems, so no tech-based setting for instance.
IMO a setting with somewhat broader themes than that would be better.I would probably just put forth Chris Perkins's homebrew Iomandra and the Dragon Sea setting from 4e, since it basically involves island-hopping in a world ruled by dragons (and dragonborn). It would also probably be one of the best shots for getting the implied setting of the Nentir Vale back.