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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9792573" data-attributes="member: 11760">Dark Sun seems like a no-brainer for 2026.Planescape was popular enough that I suspect it'll be back sooner than, say, the World of Greyhawk. It would not be shocking to get a 5E Manual of the Planes (at long last) that included additional Planescape/Sigil material as part of the package. It wouldn't even be surprising to see it come out in this two-book setting format, as Heroes of the Planes and Adventures in the Planes, for instance.I also think there's a better than zero chance we'll see the same for Ravenloft and maybe Spelljammer, which certainly has a ton of 2E setting material that hasn't made the jump to 5E.I don't think this format makes sense for small settings, like Thunder Rift, as great as they are, or to expand out the Borderlands, which will probably happen in the form of additional class boards and maybe boxed sets, if it happens at all.I also don't think it's a good fit for Mystara, which is so big that it would require zooming in a lot. Maybe you could zoom in on Karameikos, Glantri, Darokin, the Five Shires, Alfheim and a necessarily rethought Thar. But other than Glantri and Thar, I don't think that core Known World setting offers enough new from the standpoint of new 5E players (the majority of all D&D players now) that they don't already get from Faerun and the World of Greyhawk. (Although Glantri is amazing and I'd like to see more people engage with it.) (Also, on a related note, the Mystaran map websites are aggressively interested in fine detail -- shipping routes! continents as they existed thousands of years ago! -- but finding an easy to parse regional map is weirdly hard.)Likewise, I don't think WotC is prepared to zoom way in on Al-Qadim or Kara-Tur or especially Maztica or the Hordelands.I think we've had enough bites of the apple with Eberron in 5E that I don't know that a pair of big comprehensive overview books wouldn't be seen as duplicative of books that are almost certainly still on many retailers' shelves.I think there's enough to merit doing something like this for the Concord Worlds -- including actual adventures on the Radiant Citadel itself, please! -- but I don't know how WotC feels about the book. My group really loves it (we had our most players yet for our session yet last month), but it seems to be below Eberron in popularity.</blockquote>

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