D&D 5E First World: Possibly One of the New D&D setting?

[Faolyn]

Not really, no, since thr First World as a concept is a couple of sentences thst provide a fig leaf to conformity between official D&D Settings and homebrew. It isn't a "Setting."

It could really easily become a setting, with all sorts of primordial-type stuff in it, neolithic races, the original great cities of the early elves/giants/dragons/whatever, Great Old Ones, and ancestor species that no longer exist.

And it has a very easy out: at some point in the future, there's a meteor strike, which wipes all this stuff out. What comes out of the ashes is whatever the DM wants: the Realms, Greyhawk, Krynn, Athas, or even your homebrew world.

 

[Parmandur]

Not yet it isn't.

I think it's funny you guys are so adamant about what can't be done about a concept explored with only a couple of vague sentences.

It actually got 3 pages of fairly sophisticated theological analysis, which is clear what it is for.

 

[bedir than]

The Dragon version of the First World myth doesn't have to match the Giant version of the First World myth. Rival civilizations don't often agree on each others' origins.

 

[Parmandur]

It could really easily become a setting, with all sorts of primordial-type stuff in it, neolithic races, the original great cities of the early elves/giants/dragons/whatever, Great Old Ones, and ancestor species that no longer exist.

And it has a very easy out: at some point in the future, there's a meteor strike, which wipes all this stuff out. What comes out of the ashes is whatever the DM wants: the Realms, Greyhawk, Krynn, Athas, or even your homebrew world.

Anything is doable, but it seems almost like saying that Wyatt could make a satellite dish, and someone comes along and says "hey, you know thst you could use that as a salad bowl?"

 

[Faolyn]

Anything is doable, but it seems almost like saying that Wyatt could make a satellite dish, and someone comes along and says "hey, you know thst you could use that as a salad bowl?"

How so? It's a world that could be used as the historical background for any other world you want.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The Dragon version of the First World myth doesn't have to match the Giant version of the First World myth. Rival civilizations don't often agree on each others' origins.

The one thing I would like out of the First World is a non-dragon version of the myth. I really don't like the dragon version.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The one thing I would like out of the First World is a non-dragon version of the myth. I really don't like the dragon version.

If I may ask, what specifically don't you like about it that you think could be bettered by a different version?

 

[bedir than]

The one thing I would like out of the First World is a non-dragon version of the myth. I really don't like the dragon version.

Rage, for the dragons threaten us
Rage, for without our passion they will crush us
Rage, and let the elements flow through you
Rage, and fight those beasts

 

[Parmandur]

How so? It's a world that could be used as the historical background for any other world you want.

No, it really isn't. It's a poem, with a highly Platonized theological gloss.

 

[Mercurius]

They could easily make First World an active setting ...perhaps it no longer exists on the Prime Material Plane, but exists "outside time and space" - as a kind of eternal meta-world that underlies other worlds.