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I could possibly see Nerath as a "from the ashes" type setting, but you'd have to walk a fine line to avoid it being grimdark. I still wish we had gotten a consolidated book before 4e burnt out.

Older FF (up to 6) games were fantasy with a bit of Barrier Peaks level tech. Eberron feels the closest to 6 because it's still a medieval based world with a heavy magi-tek mixture. All the FFs from 7 on (save 9) feel more modern/sci-fi with fantasy elements. Cars and motorbikes and skyscrapers...

I always felt Eberron was the FF setting, but I could see them go straight up sci-fi/fantasy rather than wide magic/magical replacesc tech. Less FF 4-6 and more FF 13 -15

Those are called "cults" and they tend not to advertise there presence. 😉

Mystara/Known World is a bit of an odd duck. On the surface it's a very generic D&D setting but just underneath the surface (even somewhat literally) is all manner of weird and interesting stuff. The problem is that it's hard to sell that on first blush as being all that different from Greyhawk...

Eh, I still think that's a pretty thin level of design space to hang a whole setting on. Nerath shows "different for different's sake" isn't enough. Hell, even Mystara, beloved as it is, needed a lot more than "the BECMI setting" to make it work. I'm not saying a setting designed with the...

Aside from better incorporating the new PHB species, what do you see that entailing?

I mean, when Eberron came out, it was touted as a setting designed for modern (WotC) era D&D, which at the time meant magic shops and any race being any class. But I think if Eberron has just been that, it wouldn't have lasted. Eberron brought a lot of unique flavor to D&D you didn't get in...

I think it's more a notion of emphasis. If I was making a setting designed explicitly to emphasize the new elements, those are what I would focus on. But all of those things can be added to any legacy setting (at least the kitchen sink ones) and maintain spirit of the setting. Nothing there is a...

I think the following: Orcs as PC species rather than antagonist monsters Lore changes to monsters who has their types changed (goblinoids, etc) Artificers as a core class outside of Eberron. The lack of "half-races" Some "legacy" issues carrying from 4e and 5.14: Dragonborn, tieflings...

I was responding to Scribe's comment about older settings not being changed or retconned. Which I find to be both impossible (if they are supposed to be aligned with the current rules) and futile. To that point, a "5.5" setting would most likely suffer a similar fate when the next edition...

I'm responding to the notion older settings cannot be used if changes to them have to be made to make them compatible with the current edition. IE Greyhawk can never have Dragonborn because Dragonborn didn't exist in 1983.

Right. IMHO there are two different types of settings in D&D: kitchen sink and curated. Greyhawk, Realms, Eberron, Spelljammer, Planescape, and most versions of Ravenloft are kitchen sink and reflect what was in the rules at the time. Dragonlance and Dark Sun are curated and intentionally...

So every edition you throw out all the lore and start fresh? That's IP suicide! I understand you hate D&D, but you're asking an irrational design choice to appease the minuscule amount of player who care that there are no monks on Krynn. Take that to the next level. Elves have changed from...

When Greyhawk was designed, there was no cavalier or barbarian classes. Thus adding them to Greyhawk required a change of design intent. Gary Gygax ruined Greyhawk with Unearthed Arcana, Monster Manual 2 and Oriental Adventure by your reasoning.

It does beg the question: did Greyhawk not have dwarven wizards because that was an intrinsic part of the setting or was it because that was not an option of the rules? Put another way, if the base AD&D rules has allowed such a combo, would Gary have disallowed it because it was important to the...

So hypothetically, people would be happier with 5e having Innistrad instead of Ravenloft, Tarkir instead of Dragonlance, Dominaria instead of Greyhawk and Avishkar instead of Eberron because those settings were designed prior to Goliath being in the PHB? And next edition we will have a new...

Honestly, D&D has too many settings as it stands. Adding more will make that worse. Because fans want their favorite settings "in print" and not replaced by a new setting that is similar (case in point, Ravnica and Radiant Citadel were both supposed to mean we weren't getting Planescape because...

But that loops us back to the original problem Mearls is trying to fix: one shot fight ending spells. Both hold person/monster and banishment remove a foe from combat to focus fire on other targets, then focus fire on it when other threats are neutralized.

Less that we can't imagine what it is like, but our imaginations are still framed in what we understand as humans. Take an elf. A species who lives hundreds of years, maybe immortal depending on the lore. Even the notion that elves are long-lived is based on the framing of a human lifespan and...