D&D (2024) New Year Wishes For D&D in 2025?

[dave2008]

And the 4th edition GSL being in Creative commons would allow for a much desired 4th edition type system to be developed by a third party.

A few things here:

• You can make a 4e clone without the GSL in CC.
• The GSL in CC doesn't help much, it is a license, not an SRD.
• We need an actual 4e SRD* in CC.

*For those curious, here is a link the 4e SRD PDF. It is basically a list of names and some format information. I think we need a 4e version similar to the 3e and 5e SRD. That would take some work though.

 

[dave2008]

So what are your New Years Wishes for D&D in 2025?

For me I want them not screw up the FR setting books and for them to be everything those of us have been asking for them for years the books to be. I want Ed Greenwood and other important FR writers if possible involved. I want it to be awesome.

I want a D&D TV show.

I want a detailed explanation how Eberron and it's planes fit into the broader D&D cosmology.

I want them to decide once & for all if they will merge the D&D & MtG multiverses some how, the whole thing has been in this suspended animation if indecision for years now.

Kind of D&D related given it's a 5e setting I want but I want them to fix Theros some how.

I want Exodus TTRGP to be great.

I want more FR novels from class FR writers like Erin M. Evans, Ed Greenwood, Paul S. Kemp Elaine Cunningham, Troy Denning, Jeff Grubbs, etc...

I want no new scandals of 2025 for WotC.

I don't want Musk to buy WotC, I don't want devs at WotC to keep baiting him into it. It'd be like Lex Luther buying the Daily Planet. Just no.

I want a D&D TV show announced and I want it to be for grown up like BG3.

I want the next Trilogy of Drizzt novels announced.

I want to know who will be making BG4.

I want Exodus to be RTwP using a version of its TTRPG 5e rules variant.

I want Project Sigil to be so good it blows our minds.

I want SRDs for 2024 rules and then for EVERY other edition.

I want to know what book the updated Artificer is for. I want a brand new class in that book as well. Maybe a Psion finally. Or a new Binder or Swordmage or Warlord class. Maybe a new Divine Caster that us very different from the current ones.

Yikes that is a lot of wishes for 2025! I have a feeling your going to be extremely disappointed if you are hoping to get even half of these.

Personally, I also disagree with most of your wishes for 2025. The D&D community is always diverse in what it wants!

For me, I can't think of anything for 2025 that I would wish for that I think I have a realistic chance of getting. Maybe a new Tiamat miniature with the new dragon designs, but I am thinking of commission one for myself so I don't need to wish for it - I can just make it happen!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yikes that is a lot of wishes for 2025! I have a feeling your going to be extremely disappointed if you are hoping to get even half of these.

Personally, I also disagree with most of your wishes for 2025. The D&D community is always diverse in what it wants!

For me, I can't think of anything for 2025 that I would wish for that I think I have a realistic chance of getting. Maybe a new Tiamat miniature with the new dragon designs, but I am thinking of commission one for myself so I don't need to wish for it - I can just make it happen!

Depends on which half, not all wishes are of equal value or equal expected likelihood.

The first one is more important then all the rest combined, those two books are more important to not screw up then the 2024/5 Core Books, because editions come and go, but FR is forever.

 

[dave2008]

The first one is more important then all the rest combined, those two books are more important to not screw up then the 2024/5 Core Books, because editions come and go, but FR is forever.

See that is one of things I disagree with. I have no attachment to settings and would rather they reset FR back to it origins (or before) and make it like Eberron, where it never "grows" in the TTRPG products after that. On top of that I would want all new writers, no one attached with the previous FR products preferably, for the books. I want new blood, new ideas, etc.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

And the 4th edition GSL being in Creative commons would allow for a much desired 4th edition type system to be developed by a third party.

can i offer you a nice orcus in this trying time?

 

[R_J_K75]

I don't have much faith, no pun intended, in my group continuing playing 5E24 for too long, but I'd like to see, instead of a mega module that I know I'll never use, a proper 5E book on religion. I don't want to see stats on deities, or even details on the pantheons of the various campaign settings. I'd rather see more backgrounds, subclasses, domains, spells, etc to make more rounded religious/faith-based characters. Given a good toolkit like this anyone could make a character that worships any deity/sect or order in any setting. I feel this is an area that 5E is lacking. Based on the few clerics I've played, they always felt half realized. Well, there was that one cleric of Thor that used shocking grasp to weld his tankard to the handle of his shield...never leave home without it.

 

[Muso]

I want them to decide once & for all if they will merge the D&D & MtG multiverses some how, the whole thing has been in this suspended animation if indecision for years now.

I want them to quit any crossover. Stop wasting time on this.

Basically I want the same of what is wanted in the first post (OK, maybe a Drizzt trilogy is not so important, the translation in Italy is so slow...).

I want a Battle System and Dark Sun.

I want a good quality and fast translation of the core manuals in Italian. The pesent localization is so slow and (add a random insult here). Please, WoC, fire the localization manager.

 

[Alzrius]

So what are your New Years Wishes for D&D in 2025?

Bring back the half-elf and the half-orc.

Put the new SRD (the one for whatever 5E 2024 is called) into the OGL, and not just Creative Commons.

Heck, as long as I'm dreaming, release an OGL v1.0b that includes the word "irrevocable" and is released into the public domain the way Paizo's ORC license is.

 

[J-H]

I want DND Beyond to add a "Hide 2024 rules" checkbox to the character creation tool. It's making character creation/playing around with bought content really annoying, and confusing for players who aren't as detail-oriented or tech-savvy (I have real life examples).

 

[R_J_K75]

It's making character creation/playing around with bought content really annoying, and confusing

Theres always a few rules in each edition that are weird or overly complex. For instance, the 2E & 3E grappling rules, (I have no recollection of 4E), and for me in 5E its surprise. I know it works when you read it, and people on here have explained it, and again I got it, but at the table it always seems awkward for me to figure it out in play.