My fear is if firearms are added then players wouldn't want to play with barbarians, monks or other classes too focused into hand-to-hand combat. A possible solution could be to add bulletproof enemies what had to be killed "in the old way".
Other point is when the enemies are the shooters and...
Ravenloft can be very grimm or soft horror according DMs preferences. There is even space for the horror+dark comedy hybrid. Sometimes it's even more terrifying to mix it with cruel humor.
Druid circle of titan sounds like a good idea to sell toys. I suggest to show some picture of kaiju-like monsters inspired in the forgotten Inhumanoids franchise. Could we watch an artificer subclass inspired into Robotix?
I also suspect about a future updated book of vile Darkness. I don't...
Some times when I see some characters from videogames I wonder how would be the D&D version but shooters could break the balance.
And some players and DMs could create homemade low-level antiballistic magic against gunpowders. For example illusory magic working like smoking grenades or...
You shouldn't forget the international market. D&D has been like a icebreaker ship opening a new path. Only a smaller number of TTRPGs have been translated into other languages.
Indie developers bring fresh and new ideas but don't have the same level of brand power
I suspect the stats of vehicles from "d20 Modern" shouldn't be difficult to be updated to 5.5e but in some campaigns, fuel supply could be a serious problem.
Other point could be possible secret ultratech like James Bond's gadgets created by Q division.
And the level of challenge varies...
I have looked for more information and we have got the example of the artwork "A Single Piece of American Cheese" but we have got also the cases Zarya of the Dawn (2023) (Graphic novelist Kristina Kashtanova used Midjourney to generate images. USCO protected the text, selection, coordination...
We would talk about something like Kamigawa: Neon Dinasty or New Cappena. It is possible but I would bet before it would be introduced as a new plane for Magic: the Gathering.
If you can't use the same classes and subclasses then it is not the standard D&D.
For example you could play a campaign like the videogame "Dead Island" where barbarians and monks could be an useful class, but if the most of encounters are shootings with firearms then it can't be D&D. But the...
For legal effects there is a serious difference between "100% by AI" and "by a human artist with some help of AI".
I have also found some news about a new novel about Joan d'Arc being retired because the cover was created by AI.
That is the reason because I suggest a new setting about chronomancers and alternate timelines. If there are oficcially several continuities then teorically the conflicts about canon should end.
I have been searching and there is an image created by AI that is protected by copyright, "A Single Piece of American Cheese" by Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke but because legally it was a "hybrid" work, a collaboration of AI and human artist.
An artistic work could be protected by copyright if a...
If we consult Wikipedia or TV-Tropes, urban fantasy refers to contemporary urban environments.
There was in the principle a UA article about "modern world". It seems the idea was cancelled or rejected.
WotC has got its own Urban-Fantasy IPs, "Urban Arcana" and "Dark*Matter" (and Ravenloft...