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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8093219" data-attributes="member: 7006">I fully expect these all to be one-off books.  One book of high-view setting material, some player-facing material, some monsters, some magic items, perhaps a short adventure.  This is what they've done for Ravnica, this is what they've done for Wildemount, this is what they've done for Eberron.And thus... if they are doing "classic settings", they are going to do the three that have the most opportunities for the other stuff than just the high-view setting material.  With that thinking, what makes the most sense to me is Planescape / Spelljammer... essentially 5E's version of the Manual of the Planes.  There would be a section about Sigil, there would be a lot of talk about spelljammer ships and space-faring between planes, and you'd have all the DM material for monsters, magic and the like.  And Tasha's Cauldron has been going all-in on player-facing material related to the various planes, so it connects up to it.Second one would be Dark Sun.  Again, Tasha's begins the delve into psionics and Dark Sun would follow up on it.  It is also the setting (like Eberron) that has already gone through a recent update for 4E, and thus has a much larger footprint in the D&D gaming populace.  Writers for D&D have already written and designed for Dark Sun in the last decade and thus the ideas and concepts are still relatively fresh in people's minds, as it the art design. It also doesn't hurt that the new Dune movie will be coming out in 2021, with potentially the second one a couple years after that, so desert adventuring has some standing in pop culture.Third one?  Honestly I think it has to be Greyhawk.  It is the original D&D setting, and if we're talking 40th Anniversary of D&D stuff, I don't see how they would ever choose something else.  Now yes, I understand the complaint that it's "too vanilla, like the Realms"... but that would only matter if they were going to do a full line of setting product.  But they aren't.  They'll do a single book.  And if you are going to do a single "classic setting" book, I just honestly cannot see how they would ever choose Dragonlance or Ravenloft over Greyhawk (and I'm not even considering Birthright or Mystara.)  I mean look at everything they have released for 5E... whenever they offer up things from the various settings-- like lists of gods, locations where adventures can be set, heckm even the names of products-- Greyhawk is front and center.  Finally, you add in the fact that Mike Mearls is one of the biggest fans and has recently moved back over to the design team but we haven't heard one hint of what he's been actually doing... gives me the belief that there is a potential for a true blue fan spear-heading the design.  We had Keith Baker as Eberron's champion through Rising's process... Mearls would be Greyhawk's.</blockquote>

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