D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Zardnaar]

Hellhounds need to recharge.

Dragbonborn have PB breath weapons and you can vary the damage types

Very low damage though

 

[bedir than]

Hellhounds need to recharge.

Dragbonborn have PB breath weapons and you can vary the damage types

NPC Dragonborn recharge

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[Reynard]

You csn do tgat with CR3 helhounds.

I mean, I don't think we need to talk explicitly about the value of using smart, talking things as antagonists, do we?

 

[Marc17]

Between adventures and dungeon drugs...

Now I want a setting with dungeon drugs. Illegal military combat dungeon drugs. Sounds like something that should be found in Sharn.

(Otherwise, the faction thing was what I was planning for the urban campaign I'm trying to develop.)

 

[Remathilis]

Why avoid the greatest genre?! Lean into it!

You already have Ravenloft and Dark Sun to fill that role. I think it would be more interesting to have it between the brightness of Faerun or Krynn and the darkness of the above.

 

[Scribe]

You already have Ravenloft and Dark Sun to fill that role. I think it would be more interesting to have it between the brightness of Faerun or Krynn and the darkness of the above.

I am not sure if Dark Sun qualifies, I probably have to give you Ravenloft.

 

[Maxperson]

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

I'm not sure what your argument here is. Are you saying there should not be a setting built around the mechanics as presented in the core rules, or that there could not be?

A setting is just a place where the game happens. It's not created to represent any specific set of rules. I can pull out a 1e setting and run 5e in it with zero changes or vice versa. Sometimes a setting has some setting unique mechanics, but those are not edition mechanics.

 

[Maxperson]

In theory, but Eberron was designed the other way around, and it’s one of the most beloved D&D settings ever.

In what way was it designed specifically for 3e mechanics?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The art of 4e had got a lot of Warcraft vibes. When I watched those characters I felt like a preteen with action figures in my hands.

If Hasbro wanted to sell action figures of D&D Nentir Vale should be the setting for those characters. Maybe it should be unlocked in DMGuild.

A setting can't be a group of names for places. It needs its own identity, and enough potential to have enough brand power as subfranchise. And it has to be original because there are too many other settings created by 3PPs.

My idea is something to make players to feel within some D&D version of creepypasta fiction, style new weird fiction.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

In what way was it designed specifically for 3e mechanics?

wasn't the setting literally built (in part) from what keith and the other writers thought was a logical extension of the magic and crafting rules of 3e?