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

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I voted for a Urban War Anime Political setting.

The idea is that's not one setting.

It's 3 settings that crashed into each other.

And the deities and mortals have to deal with the fact that 2/3rd of the world is literally an invasive fusing of theirs.

Like imagine if your world only had Devils and Giants. Then 2 new settings crash into it and you got to deal with these gigantic fire or ice breathing flying reptiles and a and an infinite plane of chaotic fiends. New threats. New opportunities.new things to steal.

Now dwarves have a real reason to hate elves. They're literally from another world and they've come to steal their gold.

 

[CreamCloud0]

a political setting IMO would require at least in some part, nuanced social mechanics, and for people to use them

 

[Mind of tempest]

Why? Considering your response in the other thread...this confuses me.

Our goals likely look similar, our routes to them very different

 

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Heroic Fantasy vs Epic Fantasy vs Mythic Fantasy vs Bright Fantasy - ok someone help me out with some definitions here

In basic terms with plagiarism from elsewhere

Epic Fantasy usually focuses on the epic struggle between absolute good and absolute evil, and the characters are thrust in the midst. Sword and Sorcery portrays the struggle of characters to achieve their own personal goals, ranging from questionable to decidedly unsavory.

Heroic Fantasy sits somewhere in between. It tends to be distinguishable from Epic Fantasy by its scale, the problems are generally those of the heroes, not the world, until the end. Instead the heroes are the power not the forces of Good and Evil around them. Kingdoms and societies are portrayed mainly to the extent the heroes have an impact on them. On the other hand, it's distinct from Sword and Sorcery as well in that the heroes are actually heroic and their goals are often morally sound or, at the very least, not overtly objectionable and they have impact on the world

In Mythic Fantasy instead of the heroes and the kingdoms being the focal point the monsters are instead the focus as they are the stuff of legends and myths. They use their own rules and encountering them come in a place of all as they affect the world as much or even more than the heroes. Often these myths are one of a kind and tied to stories that invigorates the lore.

Bright Fantasy is simply that good has won. They're all dangers but it's mostly on the outside most of the areas are in Golden ages. Heroes fight to keep the Golden Age going as the dangers do not end. However there is a mentality that the societies at your back are not in threat of falling. This is the different from Grim Fantasy where the world is doomed or already destroyed and the people are merely pushing back against the danger, either in a futile effort or merely holding on to the remaining good parts.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

So I added Modern, Wuxia and Mystery to my vote, now that we are allowed more as I would like them and think that the rules needed to support them would be useful additions to the core rules.

 

[Corinnguard]

I added Wuxia/anime, Science Fantasy and Modern Fantasy to my original vote.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

If people would please provide definitions of "heroic fantasy", "sword & sorcery", "high fantasy", "epic fantasy" and "mythic fantasy" when they make surveys like that, that would be very nice. Because half of time these terms are used interchangeably and when asked to provide examples, the same classics like Lord of the Rings and Conan are as likely to be brough up an example either one of them. So I would like to see what the foundations of this survey are.

 

[Mind of tempest]

If people would please provide definitions of "heroic fantasy", "sword & sorcery", "high fantasy", "epic fantasy" and "mythic fantasy" when they make surveys like that, that would be very nice. Because half of time these terms are used interchangeably and when asked to provide examples, the same classics like Lord of the Rings and Conan are as likely to be brough up an example either one of them. So I would like to see what the foundations of this survey are.

sword and sorcery is it feels like Conan the barbarian or related media

 

[Not a Decepticon]

sword and sorcery is it feels like Conan the barbarian or related media

Except Conan is also very likely to be used as an example of Heroci Fantasy if LotR is used as example of high fantasy