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So apparently I need to spell out the joke. Ravnica isn't the urban fantasy genre. Just because it is fantasy and has an urban environment, doesn't make it the urban fantasy genre, any more than the presence of death knights makes Dragonlance Gothic horror despite some tragic and spooky...

Your sarcasm font is broken then.

WotC has realized the same problem and between the desparking of many planeswalkers and the revelation of omenpaths, a lot of the "band of superheroes" type stories are gone and regular powerful characters can travel if needed.

I'm in total agreement. One grand kitchen sink for all of D&D, everything working together in a unified whole. But as Whizbang said, probably too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

I'm not sure. I never get past "I'm a kender..." before they are rolling for initiative.

Further proof you only need one setting then. Forgotten Realms could handle horror, pulp, noir, melodrama, survival, sword and sorcery, planetary romances and comedy. We can get rid of the rest.

Nonsense. Dragonlance is clearly a horror setting based on the most casual understanding of the genre, much like how Ravnica is urban fantasy because it has urban and fantasy elements.

Singularity achieved

Idk man, the look of terror in the eyes of your fellow players when you say "I'm playing a kender" says it all...

Nope. It's horror. Let's look at the board. Death knights? Scary. Dragons? Very scary. Kender? Absolutely terrifying. A world without gods? Cataclysm? Endless war? Horrifying. Dragonlance is gothic horror. I'm sure nobody would torture the definition of horror to prove otherwise.

The use of death knights, including a prominent tragic villain death knight, proves Dragonlance is a gothic horror setting and really no different than Ravenloft.

Absolutely. The people who think a modern RPG should be printed like a 70s zine is mind boggling...

San Cian and Godsbreath were my favorite

There is also Journey Beyond the Radiant Citadel, where several if the authors give additional information on their specific areas. It's not much, but it is more. https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/403298/journeys-beyond-the-radiant-citadel

Counterpoint: the Scream franchise is clearly in the horror genre but absolutely bucked the trend of weak protagonists and immortal monsters. Sydney has killed more Ghostfaces than there have been movies (easy when each movie has 1-3 of them). The Classic Three (and later Core Four) are almost...

I've long stopped following FF (12 was the last one I owned and 9 the last one I completed) but I would wonder how much Ivalice would be popular with people looking at the FF TTRPG and expecting a more FF7 style world. That's kinda my problem with it: I would probably want something that...

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 look at Final Fantasy 4 (which feels very traditional of a kitchen sink D&D world) Final Fantasy 8 (which is very futuristic) and Final Fantasy 15 (which is...

D&D really excels at Horror-themed Dark Fantasy. More Castlevania than Silent Hill. You can juice a more traditional horror style out of D&D, but I find it works best when it's doing D&D stuff in a horror background.

Darklords I think. She was her own domain lord and all three desert domains later formed a cluster. She's also covered in Domains of Dread. I think she lost her dark lord status in VRGR but kept the same story.