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Not trying to offend any of those writers (because they might be around here) but in general the Spelljammer books were not up to par. The research for the Realmspace/Krynnspace/Greyspace ones was just not adequate (failing to tie them well with the settings in numerous cases), the editing was...

Oh maybe Gothic Earth (Masque of the Red Death) then? Not sure I even own that one but I assume you'd have to be a human there.

Practically speaking, much of Ravenloft is also human only.

D20 Modern?

All I need from Spelljammer is an adventure in a dwarven forge asteroid that seems abandoned and is infested by Wooly Rupert, the Giant Space Hamster of Ill Omen, his Tyrannohamsterus Rex bodyguards and assortment of other misbegotten tinker gnome creations. Rime seems great but if you want...

And now you mentioned Tritons and you reminded me that my favourite setting would be an FR book entirely focused on the Seros.

And 3.5 did have Power of Faerun which was pretty much expanded leadership rules so you can have your own domains. The concept is not entirely abandoned. I could see it be one of the many planned video games for 5E as well; hate me for this but I could easily see Birthright domain management...

I think it was a tangent on whether campaign settings that significantly restrict options may be less valid options for 5E. I am not sure that limitations on race are as important once Tasha's will be out. If there will be a new edition at some point, I fully expect the term to die off and...

And that would have been solid for Planescape (and perhaps needed for some factions, especially the Mercykillers whose philosophy attracted people on extremely different ends of the spectrum). But the truth is that so many settings got nuked during editions transitions (in FR with the...

They are still mostly used for comic relief and the tragedy of Gnomeregan or the leper gnomes is barely explored. But honestly D&D settings are judged at a much higher bar than Warcraft.

I like a lot of the 4E lore building. I am sure a lot of people do; it's just so hard to get past them senseless nuking any number of other things. Like what they did to FR. They treated Eberron with a lot more respect and when the time came to publish Dark Sun they probably had realized that...

On the Faction War possibly working, the thing is the narrative space for factions but outside of Sigil was already occupied by the Sects (several of which WERE factions that got exiled on the last time the Lady did a purge)

The interesting part of 4e fey gnomes was their enslavement to the fomorians imo which gave them a very specific niche; that the Fomorians had also helped destroyed the elf empires of old was their only real link to the gnomes. The Feydark concept was imo brilliant and worth salvaging for other...

I mean there are always Eberron Gnomes. Those seem fairly popular and are clearly defined (with the Trust being a very unique take on a society that is actually non-evil) And Warcraft gnomes ARE tinker gnomes that are mostly used for comic relief. Heck their devices malfunction most of the time too.

Honestly I assume that if anyone would publish Planescape again, they'd ignore Faction War.

I mean the Old Empires was a relatively early addition and it was pretty much a poor way of trying to add Egyptian and Mesopotamian gods (and not really even culture) into the setting; A;-Qadim was vastly better (and the worst of all was probably Maztica were they did not even make an effort)...

Heck as a Greek I take offense at Disney's Hercules over . . . everything? But at the same time, Theros is a solid interpretation of Greek myth. Which is why I am hoping for a new Kara Tur, the world (and D&D) has changed enough for them to do it right.

Al-Qadim could definitely stand alone. Zakhara is not really that remote from FR though; the Corsairs primarily raid on Faerunian vessels (and there is a greater ajami presence up there which requires for something to be north of it). And even back in AD&D Zakhara stood alone as a setting; there...

A Dark Sun bard is a rogue, likely an assassin, who is trained to perform. You don't really need any new class. 5E doesn't seem to care about printing new rules just so that they can directly correspond to what is in the world; it's more about "here are some ways to play, skin them however you like"

Yeah OA (+Hordelands) would need a lot of work but at the same time I think they'd be fairly worthwhile because asian mythologies are quite popular. On Monotheism in D&D especially back in AD&D when there was a focus to have all the settings be united, it would be quite weird to have a...