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It started when an alien device did just what it did...

yeah, 'alignment is relative to your beliefs' is very stupid in my view, like, no, just because you were raised in a village of assassins and bandits does not make mugging strangers lawful.

Okay, maybe as someone who has never cracked open a lorebook I don’t have the grounds to be saying this but I’m gonna, even if those people and places are iconic i wonder if they at all actually resonate with the current generation of players or if referencing them feels more like your dad...

Okay, weird pull and definitely not some of the paladins of previous editions but hear me out, the guardians from rise of the guardians: north, bunnymund, tooth, sandy and jack frost at the end, characters who champion and defend important concepts in the world: wonder, hope, childhood memories...

i disagree that multiverses are a flawed concept but i do acknowledge that not every setting needs to be part of one.

that still doesn't mean a whim has to be acted on unthinkingly.

a whim is just a spontaneous desire in the moment, an emotional urge isn't all that different, just because these urges weren't planned doesn't means they can't then go about acting upon and following those desires intelligently or with caution.

tangentially, it's amazing how 'evil' it can turn out your groups actions have been when you remove the 'we're the hero protagonists' goggles.

i assuming it means the priorities of what people desire to be focused on and fleshed out or how they do that in setting books has changed to what previous edition's players used to value being focused on.

i like the bulk of your post but i'd disagree on this one point, being lawful/chaotic doesn't make those of that alignment feel good as such, more that those people value the principles of it and think the methods of those alignments are the most effective way of getting things accomplished.

also possibly the least interesting interpretation of what defines Chaotic.

Reading the discussion here’s how i would state my own definition and understanding of the terms being used: Combat as War: combat is essentially a fail state, the objective is to survive, use whatever methods available to take out the other side as efficiently as possible, play smart or loose...

To my own definition: Evil: a willing capacity to harm or take away from others to benefit yourself, your goal and your desires. Chaotic: liberty, a willingness to ignore or abandon anything or anyone that would hold you back from following your desires. Now, there is nothing in those...

- yes we do need that much detail, the point of a setting guide meant to inform you about the setting, it's meant to have depth, not be some hazy outline for you to fill in the details yourself, it's meant to tell us about how this world works and how it came to be so we can understand and...

I feel any attempt to convey those latter three with minimal text is going to end up with either (or both) extremely shallow conveyance of information or taking up far more page space than is required IMO, Like, sure, put in an image of the local lord with specific shots of his signet ring, his...

while i don't disagree with this i do think the amount of art can go over what's needed to entice, inform and inspire at which point it can just end up eating valuable pagespace.

you're right, but when i saw the opening question i had thoughts which i wanted to post.

IMO because they are old ones, not to say they're past using but i think adding some metaphorical new blood to the franchise would be a good idea, a new setting designed to fit new DnD, the fresh slate that allows them to build things up from the ground, properly cohesively incorporating all the...

i think the Final Fantasy aesthetic would do well for a new DnD setting, that whole magi-crystal-tech retro-futurism vibe, where you get knights and ninjas alongside summoners and a guy with a gun for an arm, people throw out thunderbolts, shuriken, swordbeams and grenades and it all fits...

They don’t have to throw out the old settings, new content can still be made for them too, but my intent was more for there to be a ‘primary core setting’ for any new content that isn’t being designed for an old setting is to be designed to orient into this new setting, or go with two settings...