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They wouldn't need a fully fleshed-out world, IMHO, just enough of a starter to let DMs flesh things out. Think what they did with Nentir Vale in 4e or the Expert set that fleshed out some stuff about Karameikos and the surrounding areas of the Known World (or the original Greyhawk, for that...

That's technically Eberron, but yeah, while I like medieval fantasy settings, I agree. Keep those settings for people who like that, and build a setting from scratch to embrace the normal things (and then, for example, like Greyhawk/FR/etc, could pick and choose what's allowed. Greyhawk might...

Modules would be great for facilitating "league" play at a game store, since they seem to have completely abandoned the Adventurer's League and organized play for 5.5e, outside of like 1-2 conventions only. They could even be like those multi-part modules in the old days where you could play...

The last new setting they had, they dumped despite it actually being quite good, because 4e wasn't well-received. I will die on the hill that Nentir Vale was a great setting, actually had Dragonborn and Tieflings that fit in seamlessly (unlike how Tieflings kept their 4e look in 5e instead of...

That art style is decent, my personal feelings about her being a black elf notwithstanding. I do find a lot of the art in the new books is hit or miss. Some are decent, but some look like the sort of thing someone would commission for their World of Warcraft character off of DeviantArt. They can...

The above is the art I'm thinking of, but I'm firmly in the camp that Elves should be pale/white-skinned (Drow excluded), in the style of Tolkien, who was influenced by Scandinavian folklore (see also Poul Anderson). But that's neither here nor there, and I will add that art is just terrible...

What's also interesting to me is the comment that they would print more modules. We could do with a series of modules like the old style, not just Adventure Path books.

I liked it until I saw inexplicably making Yolande (I think it was Yolande) black, changing the Prince of Ulek to a Princess... the name changes I didn't care about since it was either obvious it'd be changed (Plains of the Paynims) or it's using the actual name, not the "common" name (Frost...

The guy on X is part of Luke's team.

I have no idea, why? Do you think he's lying?

Check my update, I linked the exact quote where he says it.

He posted it on X. He goes by "Lord Gosumba": https://x.com/LGosumba/status/2035114406359835113 Here is the exact post where he says this (the one above is just him saying he's working on it with Luke): https://x.com/LGosumba/status/2035162041330151705

One of the guys working on it with Luke Gygax has literally said there is no wotc internal personnel involved in the supplement?

"They" wouldn't. WotC isn't directly involved in this book. I'm expected to be disappointed, but remain hopeful they do SOMETHING to bring back a true old-school feel.

I'm hopeful this is a full on separate book (think like that Exodus sci-fi game WotC produced but didn't create) and not "just" a supplement, so it can adjust the 5.5e rules to be closer to old-school styles while using the current D&D "engine". No tieflings/aasimar/goliaths/dragonborn/orcs as...

That will break down the minute they see It's not the books they think. Trust me that would have been my original thing; I wanted to run castles and Crusades. Pretty much the only people I had interested were my wife and a couple of friends because nobody else knows what the hell it is. Telling...

Interesting. Never thought of it that way. So just to confirm then the idea is that everybody is always there "behind the scenes" and the session just kind of focuses on whoever shows up, with whoever didn't doing something else "off camera"? And that would also justify them being the same...

That's pretty much how the old school approach would work. It relies on having a mega dungeon for exactly that reason. With the aforementioned you always have to return to town, which in those days would also facilitate a possible random encounter check. Returning to a safe spot I would think...

Thank you for the detailed response. I guess the only thing I don't get is wouldn't the point of having people drop in and out require you to start and end in a safe area? Otherwise if you and in the middle of something and the next session half the group isn't there and two people are brand...

That's sort of an interesting approach because the old school style specifically wanted a mega dungeon, well, just a dungeon in those days, precisely because it wasn't something you could complete. So the gameplay loop was that A group would explore a part of the dungeon and then have to...