D&D 5E Favorite 3PPs' setting?

[LuisCarlos17f]

Let's imagine you are an important CEO in a megacorporation of the entertaiment industry, and your reports tell now D&D is in the top of the wave. The action-live movie has been a superhit, and there are more projects coming soon. The boss is really green with envy, and he has asked to create a new brand to be the rival of D&D, because this is licenced to other company. Then one of the team suggest to use a previous IP.

What do you think the 3PPs settings with a potential great future, and shouldn't fall into the oblivion? For example
Midnight by Fantasy Flight Games,
Lost City by Green Ronin,
Scarred Lands + Pugmire by Onyx Path,
Obsidian Apocalypse by LPJ Games,
Kaidan by Rite Publishing
Migdard by Kobold Press.
and Iron Kingdoms by Privater Press.

I have watched lots of interesting projects in kickstarter, but even when the crownfunding has been a success, there aren't news about. If the publisher wants to launch new sourcebooks for that setting, I can't find the information. The are losing buyers because they haven't enough promotion. Any solution? Maybe some deal with WotC and D&D Beyond could publish some pieces by 3PPs, maybe a PDF of ten pages about a class or a new PC race what you can find in the SRD.

 

[Shiroiken]

My favorite 3PP IP isn't one I'd consider with a "potential great future," but I'd want to see it utilized anyway: Rokugan (Legend of the Five Rings).

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If Hasbro merged with Embracer Group, the owners of Fantasy Flight Games/Asmodee, then a rebooted version of Rokugan could be within the D&D verse.

 

[Rogerd1]

There are so many 3PP games for 5e out there that are absolutely amazing, and you have listed a few.

Aeltaltis is another.
Auroborous
Farland
Grim Hollow
Kisarta
Midgard & Southlands
Nightfell
Symbaroum
Theros
Wildjammer
Dark Matter
Esper Genesis
Dark energy (based on the books)
Theria
Tales of Arcana
City of the Crescent
World of Alessia
Blackstorm (Spelljammer with serial numbers filed off I believe)

Oh so many great products out there.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Thanks.

Is "Aeltatis" spelled rightly? I couldn't find it.

Isn't Theros by WotC?

Is "Wildjammer" really a 5ed setting?

Dark Energy?

I couldn't find "City of Crescent" as a RPG setting.

Storm Bunny Studios is a good example of 3PP what could sell more if they had more promotion.

Blackstorm Realms, by JetPack7, is one of the best examples of 3PPs with awesome ideas what shouldn't fall in the oblivion.

 

[GuyBoy]

Iron Kingdoms would be interesting to develop with the mega-budget the OP suggests, but I'd go "off-piste" in terms of currently published 3PP settings, and spend my mega-bucks on @Steampunkette 's Sins of the Scorpion Age setting.
If you check out the stuff on the Discord server, you'll see why

 

[Dimitri Mazieres]

I would love to see the Iron Kingdoms setting developed in such a way. I think it departs enough from traditional medieval fantasy to have a chance at catching the general audience's eye.

As a second option, I would like to see Asmodee/FGG's Midnight given the full silver screen treatment (the less we talk about Midnight Chronicles, the better ), but I fear that if it had any sort of success it would be sued until the next decade by the Tolkien estate

 

[humble minion]

I couldn't find "City of Crescent" as a RPG setting.

City of the crescent is a Kickstarter project (setting + campaign) that should be released quite soon. Based on the 18th Century Ottoman Empire, written by a Turkish development team.

Iron Kingdoms would be really interesting and distinct, though I suspect the very top-heavy small-legs look of the war jacks, and the ludicrously bulky armour, would be difficult to render convincingly in a live-action medium.

 

[Magister Ludorum]

Arcanis by Paradigm Concepts

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Esper Genesis.
Carbon 2185
Genefunk 2090
Torus(Afinity)
Rocket Age
Seas of Vodari
Eldrich Sands
Comets & Cockpits
Entromancy
Dark Energy (by Entanglement Interactive LLC)
Fateforge
Alessia by Bunny Storm Studios
The Koryo Hall of Adventures: 5e Compatible Campaign Setting De Red Scales Publishing