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It is so strange that some folks want to fight against the simplest reason: it is fun to be excited for official D&D things.

A 5E Urban Arcana would seem to be the place to put modern tech level stuff, yes.

In literature, this is what Urban Fantasy refers to, it is a popular and diverse sub-genre of it's own.

Here's the thing: WotC could do Urban Fantasy without doing a new Setting, just revive Urban Arcana.

You really have no idea why people would like for all rhe trrpg play they do to sbe plugged into the same core rules engine? None at all?

So if we had 2,017 options each for class, ancestry, and background, each human on the planet could make a unique character. OK...

Presumably it would be (21+15) x (94+59) x (96+56) or 837,216 combinations of class, species and background, because you wouldn't choose...

I'd argue Final Fantasy doesn't have any single aesthetic but (like D&D) a bunch of shared tropes over multiple settings. It's hard to...

D&D really excels at Horror-themed Dark Fantasy. More Castlevania than Silent Hill. You can juice a more traditional horror style out of...

I would say Van Richten's Guide does a better job of it with the little vulnerable guys you can use for prologues or to just run a one...

IME, the stick only method is actively detrimental to anything like immersion. When the game tries to force me to feel fear with bad...

This is why Ravenloft gained the reputation for places campaigns go to die. I said everything I needed to say above. A setting that is...

It's a carrot and stick scenario. Old Ravenloft enforced Gothic horror only via stick. You were beaten down with fear, horror, powers...

Oh, and based on the books I see that are popular, and the movies, I would say a new setting should be/have; Dragons (ridable)...

My friend developed a homebrew D&D setting based on LoZ, it was loads of fun.