D&D 5E (2024) Let's dream up new FR-style books for other Settings.

[SlyFlourish]

I’m much happier with the format of the two new FR books than I am with the 5e books and boxed sets of Planescape, Spelljammer, and Dragonlance. I don’t expect WOTC to go back to those anytime soon but who knows, they don’t seem to let go of Icewind Dale and Baldurs Gate!

The format of two books with all the regions, deities, factions, adventure outlines, and focus areas spread across the two books makes them really expensive though. I preferred the single book with a single focus area like what Eberron Rising from the Last War had. That, to me, is the best WOTC campaign sourcebook we’re going to see for sheer value of content for the dollar.

I can live with the current two book split but I’d rather a single campaign book has all the lore in it instead of splitting it up. If you buy either book separately, you’re really getting half a book.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Sure, but what do we even know about it? (And: I am pretty sure WotC has retconned it into FR, and Venger is a Red Wizard of Thay now).

There were one to three locations identified per episode (e.g. The Dragon's Graveyard), lots of castles, and some implied governments and social structures. A few settlements and/or tribes. I'm sure it could be expanded to something coherent.

Very "points of light." Why not new setting book instead of a rehash of something we've had before?

 

[Remathilis]

Not sure if they need two books, but a companion piece to Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft would be appreciated. We already have horror subclasses, and the Ravenloft lineages to reprint. Add some feats and backgrounds and the PC side is done. Then they can either expand a few domains (Lamordia, Mordent) or give us a smattering of ones not covered in VGR.

 

[Parmandur]

Not sure if they need two books, but a companion piece to Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft would be appreciated. We already have horror subclasses, and the Ravenloft lineages to reprint. Add some feats and backgrounds and the PC side is done. Then they can either expand a few domains (Lamordia, Mordent) or give us a smattering of ones not covered in VGR.

DMG style low prep Adventures, a few campaign frameworks, bestiary, and...bastions. Ravenloft bastions could be wild.

 

[TiQuinn]

Not sure if they need two books, but a companion piece to Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft would be appreciated. We already have horror subclasses, and the Ravenloft lineages to reprint. Add some feats and backgrounds and the PC side is done. Then they can either expand a few domains (Lamordia, Mordent) or give us a smattering of ones not covered in VGR.

That VRGR guide was solid. In retrospect I have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. I’d love a follow up. Personally, I would kill for a new Masque of the red death supplement.

 

[Remathilis]

That VRGR guide was solid. In retrospect I have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. I’d love a follow up. Personally, I would kill for a new Masque of the red death supplement.

I have mixed feelings on MotRD. I love it in concept, but it really needs its own version of D&D with appropriate classes and gear and such. I've seen several attempts to make it work and none have ever scratches my itch right. I'm more tempted to do with something like Stokerverse than try to make MorRD work with D&D.

 

[SlyFlourish]

That VRGR guide was solid. In retrospect I have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. I’d love a follow up. Personally, I would kill for a new Masque of the red death supplement.

Yeah. I love that book. It was on sale for like $12 on Amazon and I bought two just so I could give them away.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I’m much happier with the format of the two new FR books than I am with the 5e books and boxed sets of Planescape, Spelljammer, and Dragonlance. I don’t expect WOTC to go back to those anytime soon but who knows, they don’t seem to let go of Icewind Dale and Baldurs Gate!

The format of two books with all the regions, deities, factions, adventure outlines, and focus areas spread across the two books makes them really expensive though. I preferred the single book with a single focus area like what Eberron Rising from the Last War had. That, to me, is the best WOTC campaign sourcebook we’re going to see for sheer value of content for the dollar.

I can live with the current two book split but I’d rather a single campaign book has all the lore in it instead of splitting it up. If you buy either book separately, you’re really getting half a book.

I agree with you entirely, but they seem fixated on a way to split them up (presumably in an attempt to "monetise" them). Even as a Retailer, I disagree with the idea that this will ultimately make more money (I think that it will make money short-term and lead to longer-term decline, but short is all shareholders care for, in spite of it not actually making logical sense).

I'd rather have fat cheap books like the 2024 PHB.

But if we're stuck with a two-book format, THIS is the way to do it. It's much better than the way Spelljammer and Planescape were done.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Planescape
Player book
Planescape probably does need something a little more player focused maybe like that delayed Forge of the Artificer book. It can be a supplement to the existing PS Campaign setting like how Forge of the Artificer is supposed to be to Rising From the Last War.

The player focused Planescape book is probably going to have a bunch of reprints for species like Genasi, Githzerai, Githyanki, with some new ones like the Glitchling (whether or not it's a Rogue Modron or Lawful Planetouched) that appeared in an UA but never got released, the Bariuar which would resemble something between a Centaur and Satyr in terms of stats, Chaonds/Cansin/Ganzi or whatever the chaotic planetouched are being called.

If they ignore Nethlings, Nathri and those 3e planar handbook species like Buomman and Neraphim, I'm absolutely fine with that. Some reprinted subclasses like obviously the Horizon Walker Ranger, and maybe an Oath of the Watcher Paladin if they can make it more "planar".

DM Book
For the DM side of things just release the Manual of Planes as a 200+ page book, that explores the Planes in more detail than the chapter in the DMG which were currently used as the model for running Planescape. Some pages are devoted to Sigil and the Outlands, but most of that should be "refer to Planescape". The Manual of Planes will be more generic D&D focused, but be an unofficial 3rd PS book.

It can reprint a bunch of monsters from Monsters of the Multiverse and Planescape, but some new monsters like Lillendi, Asuras (possibly renamed to Ahuras since D&D Asuras are more of the Persian representation), more Guardinals, more Archons, the Celestial Eladrin, Para-elementals, Xeg-Yi, Xag-ya and so on.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm very happy not to get the wasteful slipcase and dm screen.