D&D 5E Proposal: Petition for PoL to be released to SRD

[Miladoon]

I am sure WotC knows what a PoL is.

 

[JeffB]

The best thing about PoL is that a whole bunch of hacks haven't got their fingers on it. Its a DMs to do with what he/she will for their game..

Giving it to DMsGuild is exactly what I wouldn't want to see. Its like having the Wilderlands fully fleshed out by OSR community.

 

[darjr]

Didn't Mike Mearls [MENTION=697]mearls[/MENTION] devise the POL idea?

 

[dave2008]

If anything PoL is a little more S&S in feel than more typical D&D settings, which are very high-fantasy, or at least, very high-magic.

But, the Dawn War has plenty of IP proper-nouns wrapped up in it. The general PoL concept could probably be used, just without the proper nouns. The Dawn War is not that wildly different from the Titans/Gods conflict of Greek mythology, that could always be used as a public-domain proxy.

It is the proper nouns that I want though

 

[lowkey13]

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[Sunseeker]

That would be a killer band name.

In concert, I'd probably shorten it to "500 Nerds."

C'mon. You know you'd pay to see them. If not necessarily read their petition.

You could have a full orchestra with that.

 

[Miladoon]

That would be a killer band name.

In concert, I'd probably shorten it to "500 Nerds."

C'mon. You know you'd pay to see them. If not necessarily read their petition.

I did pay to get into comicon.

 

[Jester David]

That is not quite true. By the end of 4e there was a lot of 4e info released that I would love to convert to 5e. They did provide quite a bit of setting information in the end that would be nice to have access to on the Guild.

But setting information is, by definition, system agnostic. World lore is independent of the rules and doesn't particularly need updating to be useful.

 

[dave2008]

But setting information is, by definition, system agnostic. World lore is independent of the rules and doesn't particularly need updating to be useful.

What exists is useful, but be able to expand on it and use the proper nouns is what is desired

 

[Yaarel]

Wanting to play in the 4e setting is a reasonable request.

But it seems to me, virtually everything can already be done using the 5e default Forgotten Realms setting.

To implement the ‘points of light’ philosophy, where most of the setting is undefined, just pick a region in one of the remote continents of FR Toril that are not Faerun.

5e already has most of the 4e races. Tiefling and Dragonborn are Players Handbook canon. For the Warforged, I doubt anyone would say anything if you rename them ‘War Golem’, constructed out of wood and metal, or even describe them as hollow suits of armor. Then just use the Warforged stats from the Unearthed Arcana options.

5e already has the 4e cosmology, the World Axis.

Nature = Material Plane
Feywild = Feywild
Shadowfell = Shadowfell
Astral Sea = Astral Plane
Domains = Outer Planes plus demiplane Domains
Elemental Chaos = Elemental Plane where elemental regions intermingle at each others borders.

Plus 5e FR adds an extra Ether realm. No problem.

If there are aspects of FR that are unwanted, dont use them, and make products that dont mention them.