D&D 5E D&D Needs New Settings

[Aldarc]

I don't disagree with this. What I disagree with that we need one of those for 5e. Because any overarching mythos is already FR-ified.

Need? No. Would like to see what it would competently be like? Yes.

 

[Parmandur]

Then how about I make another proposal? I would like to see another setting like Dawnforge. If you don't know, Dawnforge was one of the finalists for the setting contest that Wizards held and Keith Baker won with Eberron. But Dawnforge was meant to be something of a prequel to the "default world" that D&D presumes.

I do recall Dawnforge: that would be interesting.

 

[Blue]

Need? No. Would like to see what it would competently be like? Yes.

Would absolutely NOT want to see it done competently for 5e.

Huge opportunity cost to develop a new setting, absolutely do not want that spent on another generic take of orcs and goblins. Want something fresh and imaginative. And since you said it wasn't those, just "5e shaped', this is not it.

Waste of designer and developer time.

 

[jayoungr]

I mean an official sourcebook of the Masque of the Red Death, not by 3PPs.

I don't think they'd be able to use the name if Masque of the Red Death was still owned by WotC. It looks to me like the license must have expired.

 

[Echohawk]

I don't think they'd be able to use the name if Masque of the Red Death was still owned by WotC. It looks to me like the license must have expired.

WotC stills owns Masque of the Red Death and the rest of the Ravenloft IP. The product linked to upthread is a DMs Guild product, so that was made by a third party under a licence from WotC.

 

[Aldarc]

Would absolutely NOT want to see it done competently for 5e.

Huge opportunity cost to develop a new setting, absolutely do not want that spent on another generic take of orcs and goblins. Want something fresh and imaginative. And since you said it wasn't those, just "5e shaped', this is not it.

Waste of designer and developer time.

Much as you are, I am only talking about my own personal preferences and wants here. I did list Eberron as a setting that worked from the assumptions of the 3e system, but its take on goblins, elves, and the like are not standard. So it's not as if the same would be required for a 5e setting either. It's more a matter of seeing a setting built with the 5e's quirks in mind from the ground up.

 

[jayoungr]

WotC stills owns Masque of the Red Death and the rest of the Ravenloft IP. The product linked to upthread is a DMs Guild product, so that was made by a third party under a licence from WotC.

Ah, okay. In that case, I don't think WotC would have agreed to the license if they had plans to do anything with MotRD themselves.

It does perhaps open up some hope that they might be open to a similar arrangement with regard to some of their other settings, though!

 

[Echohawk]

Ah, okay. In that case, I don't think WotC would have agreed to the license if they had plans to do anything with MotRD themselves.

It does perhaps open up some hope that they might be open to a similar arrangement with regard to some of their other settings, though!

I think you might be misunderstanding the nature of the DMs Guild. Anyone is free to publish products using the "open" WotC settings (Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Eberron and Ravnica) there. There isn't anything special about that MotRD product or its license. It also doesn't mean that WotC has no plans to make future products in those settings. They are still producing adventures set in the Realms, despite that being a setting anyone can publish adventures for on the DMs Guild.

 

[Zardnaar]

Is love it if they did Bottle City. A whole city trapped in a bottle in the dungeons of Greyhawk castle.

Midgard has that.

 

[Mind of tempest]

it would have to be very different and be able to fit all present classes and ideal not particulay offend most people, tricky how crazy is acceptable.