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But those mechanics are for heroes, not the normies. That's part of the 5e premise. The setting you're suggesting ignores one of the...

...editorial tone most prominently; it was designed from the ground-up to support the multicultural cosmopolitain-fantasy assumptions of...

this would also mean Forgotten Realms wasn't new from TSR, nor was Greyhawk, in fact few official settings were directly new to the game...

Yes, the MtG Settings have been wildly creative. Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica cemented James Wyatt as one of the most important...

Lorwyn comes out in like 3 weeks?

...the labyrinth was created expressly to serve as a default setting for tales of the valiant...

...the radiant citadel flares in your general direction... (in my opinion ravnica and theros should count, too, but to your point, they...

Those are considered genre classics (at least the 2nd two) on a par with LotR. WoT isn’t quite at the same level, but it’s close...

Those all sell incredibly well this year. They aren't obscure and in two cases are genre defining multiple award winners.

I mean...Radiant Citadel is a new setting that expresses the 5e ethos...though it's a little thin. Hopefully they explore it more

Under the 5e WotC paradigm mechanics don't tell you about the setting. The setting doesn't tell you about mechanics. Mechanics are for...

By my reckoning, WotC released something like 10 Settings over the past decade, fully half of which were new to D&D (Ravnica, Theros...

I'm not convinced by the argument that 5E "needs" one. The fact that despite not having one, the fact that it's the most successful...

This is why during the Hasbro earnings call they said that they had 45-50 TV/movie projects in various stages of development but they'd...

I don’t see much to take away other than what the OP said - it’s an original story and that takes time.