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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patrick McGill" data-source="post: 7390523" data-attributes="member: 6749334">So I'm pretty happy with the way things stand with settings in 5e right now because I really enjoy converting on the fly. I have mentioned my Al-Qadim game on this forum before, it went for many sessions (I think to level 9 or 10?) and we had a blast. I wrote up backgrounds, a Station optional rule, and an equipment/item list and I didn't really feel like I needed anything else that I couldn't just whip up in media res (like monsters or magic items). I will say, though, that the PCs were all foreign ajami magically brought to Zakhara, so I didn't need to worry about new class mechanics. In an official release, I would want sha'ir as a school of magic for wizards (warlock might work but frankly I see them more as INT based scholars) and elemental sorcerers (Kobold has a GREAT one in their Deep Magic series though). The other "kits" in Al-Qadim: Arabian Adventures I made into the backgrounds (like mamelukes, barbers, slaves, al-badia nomads, etc) or connected to PHB backgrounds (like urchin to beggar, sailor to corsair, hermit to mystic, entertainer to rawan, etc.) they just worked better that way.If the WotC Genies granted me a wish, I'd wish for a box-set or large book for a reimagined Birthright complete with setting and rules modules to layer on top of the base game - or a Paizo style adventure path set up for a re-imagined Dragonlance story-line expanding and changing some things for modern audiences and to smooth some of the sillier elements to be less hyperbolic. (By this I mean making the kender and gnomes something more than walking punch lines.) I doubt either of these two things will ever happen, however, though I don't lose sleep over it.My guess is we're going to keep getting campaign setting information presented in large-form adventures as we have been getting now, and WotC has no plans to do any proper Campaign Setting books because the hybrid book approach seems to be working for them. I expect Planescape to be the next non-FR jaunt (and it will surely be connected, using Faerun as a starting point in that adventure).</blockquote>

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