D&D 5E (2014) restart or rewrite or new?

[GMforPowergamers]

If you had the power to make WotC choices on there next few slipcase adventure/campaign settings would you rather they make whole new settings or recreate/continue old ones?

I am in the middle, I want both, but I would LOVE to have FR reset to grey box set, reset Darksun (like they did with 4e), but I think the concepts of Birthright could have an entire rebuild to be almost a new setting (but still concept).

 

[Scribe]

If they cannot help but make changes that impact the original presentation? Leave it, and make something new.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

If they cannot help but make changes that impact the original presentation? Leave it, and make something new.

maybe because no setting I think of as getting it perfect I am more willing to see changes

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I voted for the remake with new take but I will freely admit that I am not heavy invested in settings anyway. I am more interested in things that expand the rules. So I find some of the proposed rules in the Dragonlance UA as very interesting even though I am not too bothered by the setting. I am interested in Spelljammer but more from the way it open up planar adventures than anything specifically Spelljammer.

 

[Scribe]

maybe because no setting I think of as getting it perfect I am more willing to see changes

Yeah its not about perfection, but its just going to derail the thread if I go into it.

 

[Jer]

Mostly I want them to do new settings.

For the old settings I care about - give me new takes on them. The original material is all out on DM's Guild for people to download, and I own the physical books for most of it anyway, so if they're not going to modernize the settings and bring a fresh take to it what's the point? I can go back to my old books and mine the material that's there for my own games. It's not like they can do anything to "break" those settings - if there are things about their fresh takes I don't care for, I'll just ignore them.

For the settings I don't care about - I don't care about them

 

[DND_Reborn]

I can't really vote since my option is not there:

Rehash old settings into the new format/mechanics, but leave them otherwise untouched (you could scan/OCR much of the text IMO).

AND

Make new settings from scratch.

Personally, I don't want to see new takes on old settings because then you are just ruining something that someone probably loves just the way it was...

 

[Irlo]

I voted “remake with a new take.” I like fresh perspectives on familiar material, and I don’t have any interest in an unimaginative rehash of what we’ve seen before. If there’s nothing new to add, don’t bother.

Edit: But I dislike the slip-case format and probably won’t buy any of them anyway.

 

[TwoSix]

Mostly I want them to do new settings.

For the old settings I care about - give me new takes on them. The original material is all out on DM's Guild for people to download, and I own the physical books for most of it anyway, so if they're not going to modernize the settings and bring a fresh take to it what's the point? I can go back to my old books and mine the material that's there for my own games. It's not like they can do anything to "break" those settings - if there are things about their fresh takes I don't care for, I'll just ignore them.

For the settings I don't care about - I don't care about them

100% this.

 

[Medic]

I'm of two minds about this. I want a setting like Planescape or Al-Qadim to be resurrected using necromancy. On the other hand, I am of the opinion that the 5th Edition products aimed at DMs are, for lack of a better term, emaciated. So, instead of selling diet versions of old settings, why not try something totally original to 5th Ed that comes with no baggage?