D&D (2024) Potential other "rules expansion" books

[TwoSix]

We know that most GMs create their own worlds and their own adventures. The game should support THAT.

I mean, a multiversal focus does implicitly support DM's making their own worlds, as long as they have some tangential connection to the broader multiverse.

Toril can always be "Prime-616", as it were, but each table can have their own "Prime-XXXXX".

 

[TwoSix]

I'd hate to see a flood of $30 character options that mostly appeal to people who read and collect D&D rather than play D&D, though. I don't need a repeat of 3e's Prestige Class glut or 4e's Powers Powers Everywhere. That's a blockage for onboarding new folks, it's a breeding ground for CharOp theorycrafting, and it's leaning into the Paradox of Choice

You say all these things like they're bad.

 

[Remathilis]

I mean, a multiversal focus does implicitly support DM's making their own worlds, as long as they have some tangential connection to the broader multiverse.

Toril can always be "Prime-616", as it were, but each table can have their own "Prime-XXXXX".

That's been WotC's take since at least 5e. Your Faerun is just one of countless variants all connected to the wider multiverse. So it my Faerun, the official Faerun, the 2nd edition Faerun, etc. Quite literally "its all D&D man".

 

[Parmandur]

DL, PS, and SJ need proper campaign books like FR is getting, they already got shafted, a rules expansion doesn't fix that.

A "Rules Expansion" similar to what we are seeing for Ebwrron actually seem to me to be perfect to finish those Settings: some player options, some more Mosnters, and more importantly those Campaign models.

 

[Parmandur]

That's been WotC's take since at least 5e. Your Faerun is just one of countless variants all connected to the wider multiverse. So it my Faerun, the official Faerun, the 2nd edition Faerun, etc. Quite literally "its all D&D man".

That was TSR's official line in 1E for the FR, and Ed Greenwood ar least was always clear about that.

What Greenwowas also doing, that I only realized recently, was essentially DM a huge shared campaign with the Lore Enthusiasts. He always made it clear thst DMs should make the FR their own thing, but is also always will to "Yes, And..." the big Campaign he has goijg with the FR Lore fans.

 

[Reynard]

That's been WotC's take since at least 5e. Your Faerun is just one of countless variants all connected to the wider multiverse. So it my Faerun, the official Faerun, the 2nd edition Faerun, etc. Quite literally "its all D&D man".

I think the 2024 books put too much emphasis on the multiverse and on running published adventures.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Currently 5.24e has a lot less subclass that rely on magic so I haven't updated it.

Now what it really needs is a spelless ranger...

A little late, but I have been pointing folks to Ruins of Symbaroum as a fantastic low magic/no magic 5e adaptation.

 

[Remathilis]

I think the 2024 books put too much emphasis on the multiverse and on running published adventures.

Of course. They can sell you those.

 

[Remathilis]

A "Rules Expansion" similar to what we are seeing for Ebwrron actually seem to me to be perfect to finish those Settings: some player options, some more Mosnters, and more importantly those Campaign models.

Ed Greenwood and Keith Baker have both been very good at stating that their words are only how they would run things, not the Word of God.

 

[Corinnguard]

DL, PS, and SJ need proper campaign books like FR is getting, they already got shafted, a rules expansion doesn't fix that.

If Toril is getting a proper campaign book, Abeir should get one too. It's the true Forgotten Realms as the Toril setting over last couple of decades has received most of the attention.