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Should the PHB have an arcane half caster?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8925647" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's clearly not what D&D is about anymore, though - 1600s-1900s is now the dominant vibe.</p><p></p><p>Just look at the art in 4E/5E art - and even 3E actually - 3E's vibe was "dungeonpunk", which is very distinct from trad fantasy. Look at 5E's OFFICIAL settings, almost none are Medieval.</p><p></p><p>Forgotten Realms - Renaissance era for the most part (especially the SCAG area). 1500s-ish.</p><p>Eberron - 1920s-ish minus guns/tanks/etc.</p><p>Greyhawk - Medieval for the most part.</p><p>Ravnica - 1700s-1900s depending on the exact take, but it's very much modern.</p><p>Wildemount - Hard to say but late Renaissance-early modern period? Like 1600s-1700s. They've got pretty advanced firearms, airships, etc. for example.</p><p>Mythic Odysseys of Theros - Bronze Age/Iron Age</p><p>Ravenloft - Anywhere from pre-history to medieval to 1900s, depending on the zone.</p><p>Strixhaven - Hard to say, but whatever it is, it's modern. I'd say basically 1800s/1900s.</p><p>Spelljammer - Age of Sail-ish so, what, 1700s? That's the general vibe. Some stuff is more modern.</p><p>Dragonlance - Medieval for the most part.</p><p></p><p>And that's the most generous we can be. The only medieval settings in 5E at all are there by dint of campaigns - Greyhawk via Saltmarsh and Dragonlance via Dragon Queen. We eliminate those and we're exclusively 1600s or late, with a lot of 1800s/1900s (well and Bronze Age-y Theros, but that's different in the opposite direction).</p><p></p><p>The baseline default is very much not 1200-1300 anymore. In 2E, absolutely it was. But that was a long, long time ago. Things have changed. D&D is about mainstream high fantasy, and mainstream high fantasy now is mostly set in settings equivalent to 1600-1900s - certainly in literary fantasy and videogames, but also a lot of TV/movie fantasy. There are exceptions, like Rings of Power and House of the Dragon, but for example, Shadow and Bone is basically late 1800s/early 1900s (as we will really see in the unlikely event Netflix doesn't cancel them after S2 - in S4 or so there should be a tank which would outperform most interwar tanks). Arcane is also basically 1800s/1900s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8925647, member: 18"] That's clearly not what D&D is about anymore, though - 1600s-1900s is now the dominant vibe. Just look at the art in 4E/5E art - and even 3E actually - 3E's vibe was "dungeonpunk", which is very distinct from trad fantasy. Look at 5E's OFFICIAL settings, almost none are Medieval. Forgotten Realms - Renaissance era for the most part (especially the SCAG area). 1500s-ish. Eberron - 1920s-ish minus guns/tanks/etc. Greyhawk - Medieval for the most part. Ravnica - 1700s-1900s depending on the exact take, but it's very much modern. Wildemount - Hard to say but late Renaissance-early modern period? Like 1600s-1700s. They've got pretty advanced firearms, airships, etc. for example. Mythic Odysseys of Theros - Bronze Age/Iron Age Ravenloft - Anywhere from pre-history to medieval to 1900s, depending on the zone. Strixhaven - Hard to say, but whatever it is, it's modern. I'd say basically 1800s/1900s. Spelljammer - Age of Sail-ish so, what, 1700s? That's the general vibe. Some stuff is more modern. Dragonlance - Medieval for the most part. And that's the most generous we can be. The only medieval settings in 5E at all are there by dint of campaigns - Greyhawk via Saltmarsh and Dragonlance via Dragon Queen. We eliminate those and we're exclusively 1600s or late, with a lot of 1800s/1900s (well and Bronze Age-y Theros, but that's different in the opposite direction). The baseline default is very much not 1200-1300 anymore. In 2E, absolutely it was. But that was a long, long time ago. Things have changed. D&D is about mainstream high fantasy, and mainstream high fantasy now is mostly set in settings equivalent to 1600-1900s - certainly in literary fantasy and videogames, but also a lot of TV/movie fantasy. There are exceptions, like Rings of Power and House of the Dragon, but for example, Shadow and Bone is basically late 1800s/early 1900s (as we will really see in the unlikely event Netflix doesn't cancel them after S2 - in S4 or so there should be a tank which would outperform most interwar tanks). Arcane is also basically 1800s/1900s. [/QUOTE]
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