D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting

[Paul Farquhar]

Well, mostly because we've got about a century worth of fantasy that isn't shackled to the corpses of dead authors.

Moorcock ain’t dead.

 

[TwoSix]

We'll have to wait and see. 5e has never really embraced anything new school, at least not very much. Endless recycling or re imagining adventures, recycling classes and whatnot. Recycling settings. WotC has not exactly embraced anything new, and understandably so. We are getting the D&D that fans demanded. The fandom has shown absolutely no interest in anything other than very well trodden paths.

To be fair, recycling the last generation's IP instead of coming up with novel concepts isn't limited to TTRPGs. It's kinda <gestures broadly at everything>.

 

[tetrasodium]

Tieflings were weak in 5.0. Better in 5.5. Cha and int werent a great combo.

Tiefling wasn't the part that broke warlock multiclass grab bag builds giving it resistance with maxed starting cha was enough for their popularity. They were 5e's version of the 3.x choose the right elf for everything.

 

[tetrasodium]

Tieflings were weak in 5.0. Better in 5.5. Cha and int werent a great combo.

Tiefling wasn't the part that broke warlock multiclass grab bag builds giving it resistance with maxed starting cha was enough for their popularity. They were 5e's CharOp version of the 3.x choose the right elf for everything CharOp.