D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting

[Argyle King]

This is voting on something that WotC are never going to make anyway, so you may as well vote for what you want.

I suppose.

I voted in a way that I felt best answered the premise of the thread.

I tend to vote for what I want with my wallet.

 

[Yaarel]

The insult-other-peoples-tastes, helps no one. (It is as if saying all country music sounds the same, or all hiphop music.)

It doesnt help those who dislike the genre, because they wont be getting a product in a genre that they do want. It doesnt help people who like the genre, because the distortions from hostile stereotypes wont understand the genre well enough to produce something interesting for the fans that do like the genre.

The phrasing of not preferring the genre "at all" and of the fans of the genre being a "mentality", came across as less than enthusiastic.

Of course, you dont need to pretend to like a genre. Heh. I myself am less a fan of the postapocalyptic genre, which I occasionally accuse of being intellectually lazy for refusing to comprehend what an advanced technological society would look like.

At the same time I know there are fans of the genre, and some stories I do like, like elves of Shannara and Thundarr the Barbarian actually are postapocalyptic. There is much I like about Dark Sun, and if a bit more hopeful, a viable means to heal the planet makes the overall setting appealing to me, despite being postapocalyptic.

 

[Argyle King]

The phrasing of not preferring the genre "at all" and of the fans of the genre being a "mentality", came across as less than enthusiastic.

Of course, you dont need to pretend to like a genre. Heh. I myself am less a fan of the postapocalyptic genre, which I occasionally accuse of being intellectually lazy for refusing to comprehend what an advanced technological society would look like.

At the same time I know there are fans of the genre, and some stories I do like, like elves of Shannara and Thundarr the Barbarian actually are postapocalyptic. There is much I like about Dark Sun, and if a bit more hopeful, a viable means to heal the planet makes the overall setting appealing to me, despite being postapocalyptic.

No big deal. Through text, sometimes things read differently than intended.

I used the same words that the original post used: "...new setting fully committed to the content and mentality the 2024 version of 5th edition..."

I openly admit that my own personal tastes are different than the ones for which I voted.

 

[Yaarel]

D&D 2024 Greyhawk is a "heroic fantasy" setting, but can accommodate other genres as well. Forgotten Realms is "epic fantasy" but likewise can accommodate.

The most requested "new" settings are, in order:

Sword and sorcery (personal ambitions and violent challenges, morally ambiguous, with only low magic that is often villainous).

Heroic Fantasy (where individuals tend toward Good, and involve cosmic conflicts and high magic, but rarely at high levels).

Wuxia (often emphasizing flashy, personal, warrior magic).

Dark Fantasy (generally involving Evil and hopelessness, with Undead, Fiend, or Aberrant, but protagonists might be heroes or antiheroes) (somewhat like sword-and-sorcery but with high magic).

Urban Fantasy (modern magical realism, often Humans with high magic, in romances with other species, such as Elf or Vampire).


Is it possible to combine these into a single genre fusion?

A main decision is between medieval "swords" versus modern urban "guns". But perhaps medieval can have guns (like Critical Role), or modern can have swords (like Highlander). Or the choice of weapon is unimportant (like superheroes).

Maybe most of the setting is like modern mundane reallife, while the magic happens in the Ethereal Plane that overlaps the ordinary Material Plane. Perhaps the ether itself is a digital "augmented reality" overlaying reallife persons and places.

The setting might be Human only, except nonhuman species inhabit the ether.

Magic in the mundane world is rare. But the ether can feature individuals with high magic to influence the ether. Certain material locations are set up to interact with the ether (like to 3d-print a nonhuman creature or a remote avatar of a Human). These interactive places tend to be rare, expensive, and secretive.

Mostly, the conflicts derive from personal ambitions and situational ethics. But a looming threat might involve sinister Fiend or Aberrant or Undead conspiracies.

 

[Hussar]

So people want WotC to make it's own Primeval Thule?

Oh, that would make me SOOOO happy. I realized that Primeval Thule is exactly what I want. The area is small, self contained with diverse habitats. The whole area is about 1500 miles in diameter (a bit less north to south). This is exactly the kind of setting I want. I am so sad that it got largely abandoned afterwards. One of the very few Kickstarters I've ever backed.