D&D 5E Products You Would Like to See WotC Publish For 5E

[SkidAce]

One thing that I'd really like is if they made a "D&D: Year Zero" product - either as a hardback or a boxed set.

What I mean is a setting that shares certain similarities with the Swedish RPG Mutant: Year Zero (though preferably with less bleakness). The world has been ravaged by some cataclysm or other, and people fled to some sort of long-term shelters to escape it (think the Vault from Fallout). The time has come to re-emerge and explore the world anew, and rebuild your community. You'd have some lore from the before-times, but some of it would have been corrupted through the time sheltered and other things would just be outdated.

The product would have a strong focus on hexcrawling - exploring the strange new world in which the characters find themselves. Much of it would be random, with some fixed points. There'd also be rules for the home community, both creating the starting state of it and how to improve it.

This sounds like a great idea. Well, not sure if a published setting would be popular, (it might, shared stories about how our vault destroyed the undead plant infestation...) but it would be a great homebrew.

Adding it to my list.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Of course it is. The pessimism on this board is too deep to overcome. WotC literally can't win.

Maybe, but to be honest I'm not interested in 7 years of WwtC stories. I don't really want to play their stories.

 

[Staffan]

My advice is to go play one of those post apocalypse games.

Not out of snark, but because I honestly believe this scenario isn't why people are playing fantasy.

Most post-apocalypse is too bleak for my tastes. They're usually "Oh crap, the world is going to hell and we'll have to do our best to survive!"

What I'm after is "The world went to hell but now it's getting better, and we survived and it's time to rebuild."

Most D&D settings have a post-apocalyptic element, with one or more fallen empires leaving ruins all over the place, but generally society has been rebuilt - likely a lesser society, but still. This would be getting in on the ground floor, so to speak.