D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E

[Corinnguard]

All of them.

I doubt that they are all necessary for a contemporary fantasy to work. Plus, they would throw in too much complexity into a game that tries to keep it short and simple.

 

[AlViking]

All of them.

You create a world, the players are going to want to interact with it.

No game can give specific instructions for everything PCs could possibly do in the fashion that D&D does. Systems like FATE kind of side-step it because they simply don't work the same, that doesn't mean you couldn't have a general system.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I doubt that they are all necessary for a contemporary fantasy to work. Plus, they would throw in too much complexity into a game that tries to keep it short and simple.

That’s why WotC use magitech in all their settings. They avoid the complexity of the real world.

 

[AlViking]

That’s why WotC use magitech in all their settings. They avoid the complexity of the real world.

They're selling D&D, not modern day urban fantasy. At least not currently.

 

[Corinnguard]

That’s why WotC use magitech in all their settings. They avoid the complexity of the real world.

Mostly in the Eberron and Spelljammer settings.

 

[AlViking]

Mostly in the Eberron and Spelljammer settings.

For that matter they avoid the complexities of a "medieval" reality as well.

 

[Corinnguard]

For that matter they avoid the complexities of a "medieval" reality as well.

True. Otherwise, the 5e PHB and the 5e DMG would be considered tomes several hundred pages thick.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For that matter they avoid the complexities of a "medieval" reality as well.

True, but since we aren’t medieval, it’s not so glaringly obvious.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Mostly in the Eberron and Spelljammer settings.

Plenty of magitech in Baldur’s Gate 3. And lots of setting-agnostic WotC adventures.

 

[AlViking]

True, but since we aren’t medieval, it’s not so glaringly obvious.

For you perhaps. I accept that D&D is not attempting to be a reality simulator. I wouldn't want that for a game as dependent on combat anyway.