CHRONOMANCER: WotC's new meta-setting?

[TheCosmicKid]

My dude, do you have any idea how many words end with “omancer?” That could literally be any Latin prefix that ends with an o.

Greek.

 

[Charlaquin]

Greek.

I mean... The -mancy suffix comes from the Old French mancie, which comes from the Latin -mantia, which comes from the Greek -manteia. So both are accurate.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If there is a chronomancer new setting, this would need a lot of time to create the background and the metaplot, but there is a lot of possibilities. For example fight among worlds like the manga "Bokurano" or the event "Time Runs Out" by Marvel Comics, or something like the Battleword from the last secret wars saga. A demiplane could be a mixture of Dark Sun and the mini-setting Jakandor and Council of Wyrns, or a demiplane when Raitlin is the god who destroyed Krynn and prison in his own post-apocalypse version of Ravenloft. The setting "Dragon Fist" would be the Oriental continent from Greyhawk's world. Why not the return of the time dragons and the le-Shays, the fays from "Epic Levels Handbook"? Let's imagine a FR without the spellplague, or Dragonlance without the 5th age, or the aliens from d20 Future invading the world of Dark Sun. Or a time sphere what is a mixture of Kaladesh (from Magic: the Gathering), Transformers and Iron lords of Jupiter (from Dungeon Magazine #101). Other time sphere could be "guest artist" by other companies, for example mixing D&D, Legend of Five Rings and 7th Sea.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

I mean... The -mancy suffix comes from the Old French mancie, which comes from the Latin -mantia, which comes from the Greek -manteia. So both are accurate.

But pyro-, necro-, and chrono- are all, correctly, Greek. To put a Latin prefix on -mancy, you'd have to be a diseased mind of the sort that came up with television and Supersaurus.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I mean... The -mancy suffix comes from the Old French mancie, which comes from the Latin -mantia, which comes from the Greek -manteia. So both are accurate.

 

[SkidAce]

Greek.

Greekomancer sounds funny, did you mean Geekomancer?

 

[Dungeonosophy]

If there is a chronomancer new setting, this would need a lot of time to create the background and the metaplot, but there is a lot of possibilities.

Yep, a lot of possibilities. A metaplot was already laid out in 2E Chronomancer. The "Tangents" and "Dimension X" settings also had metaplot - it could all be tied together since all three take place within the D&D Multiverse. One fitting adversary would be the Oards from the time-travel module CM6: Where Chaos Reigns. They are basically time-travelling Borgs. They even look very similar to Borgs.

Yet regardless of plot, there are three things I'd like to see:
1) A ready-made reason to travel from one time to the next, from one world to the next, perhaps every session.
2) An in-game time-travelling version of "Pathfinder Society" which serves as a source of adventure seeds.
3) A synchronization of the timelines of all the D&D worlds. Any conflicting events which can't be retconned, are relegated to an alternate timeline.

 

[LordEntrails]

I think someone won an entire six-pack from the speculation in this thread...

 

[vecna00]

I don't think they're going to introduce Chronomancy as a meta setting, but I do think they could explore different time periods of settings as new sandboxes to play in. Netheril has been mentioned in more than a few Lore You Should Know segments, including having one dedicated to it, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is an adventure path set there. Maybe the PCs get to experience the Fall firsthand, that could be interesting. Though, having Netheril as a setting opens up the can of worms for epic level magic, which we probably won't see officially supported. (I hope I'm wrong though!)

I wouldn't be surprised if we see 5e Modern and Future details soon-ish too.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

After Eclipse Phase, the transhuman settin by Posthuman studios the sci-fi in rpg is totally different. This is a strange game, because all the PCs could be dead but it to be a success.

My own idea for a chronomancer setting is something like a arcane-punk Dyson sphere, a mixture of the battleworld from Marvel Comics Secret Wars, the multiverse with 52 worlds from DC and the nexus from Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm. A time sphere with a mosaic of demiplanes. My idea for a plot is this time sphere is a prison where deities or powerful beings who lost a old war (the titanomachy?) are in an illusion as ordinary mortals, without memory of the past, but the truth is the real prisons of this demiplane are the jailers, but they don't notice because they are too busy with the fight for the control and trying to avoid the reincarnated mortals may remember the past lives again (they are keeping their own prison!). An example of a "nightmare realm" would be the god Raistlin from a alternate future by Dragonlance is fighting against the invader of the Far Realm. He is the supreme lord and he is totally alone but he is help to save the rest of worlds.