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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9570729" data-attributes="member: 59082">Birthright fans talk about it like its, I don't know, Star Wars - with millions of fans clamoring for easter eggs to validate their nostalgia. It really was a secondary setting in terms of prominence, and only during one edition. The chances of them doing more than just "here's an example of kingdom building" are rather slim. As with many things TSR, it might be time to let go of the hope that it will be revived and just enjoy it for its place in the halls of D&D history. I mean if they haven't revived Dark Sun--a much more popular setting--I don't see them doing much with Birthright.Chances are a new setting would be targeted at "kids these days" - the masses of Zennials and Alpha kids who started playing during 5th edition. I don't think they're inherently any more or less diverse in taste than older generations, but they do have a different set of cultural references and media than TSR era folks. So we're probably more likely to see something drawn from more recent video games, social media culture, and all the stuff 21st century pups are into rather than Howard, Moorcock, Vance, Lovecraft, Tolkien, John Carter, etc etc.I could see something either in the "fey whimsy" side of things, or maybe teen dystopia, as that remains a popular sub-genre of sff, or possibly some kind of cosmic fantasy superhero thing. Whatever they put out is probably not going to be what I personally would want to see, but I haven't been their target audience since, I don't know, the George W Bush administration. I haven't played D&D in a few years and if I did would probably go for one of the Free League games instead, but I'm always interested to see what new iterations of D&D look like, even if it isn't my bread and butter.</blockquote>

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