Two New Settings For D&D This Year

if it comes out this year i would agree with you. Possibly published by a third party company that has a good reputation (Green Ronin etc)

However if it’s coming next year I would stake all the money in my pockets that it will be a Curse of Strahd style book. Campaign with background and new monsters etc. Curse of Strahd was too successful not to repeat!

 

[GarrettKP]

I have a crazy prediction for this "new setting."

Based on some peoples responses I think it is entirely new. And based on the fact that a lot of AL Admins seem involved in the new books I think this new setting is a plain ass generic setting that is meant to be shaped as the AL players play through it. Think the Red War but on a world wide scale. AL players can become lords of towns and cities and shape the world as they play in it.

This is probably logistically impossible but it is fun to imagine this stuff up XD

 

[R_Chance]

If they really were going to hit the "hardcore" fans, they could do so and really piss a lot of people off at the same time by giving us Al-Qadim and Kara-Tur.

An Arabian styled setting and an Asian styled setting... and yet both of them are still Forgotten Realms. LOL! We'd get a whole morass of people freaking out that we when we get all new campaign settings we still aren't leaving Abeir-Toril.

Thank you for my soda spitting belly laugh of the day! I can just imagine the posts...

 

[SkidAce]

I've heard multiple people online say this would "surprise people." I am starting to think it is an all-new setting.

Dominaria.

You heard it here first....

 

[OB1]

Top Right -- no idea

Looks like a ship in a sea of stars to me, so spelljammer?

My guess for this release is a planescape/spelljammer combo that also serves as a guide to everywhere . Planescape for traveling the outer planes and Spelljammer for traveling the alt prime materials.

Could easily do a 2-4 page write up on a dozen alt primes (similar to the outer plane write ups in 3.5 manual of he planes), enough to officially open them up to DMs guild. Same for the outer planes. Not sure if it would try to fit the elemental planes, shadowfell and feywild in here too, my guess would be no.

If we are really lucky, we get the Artificer and Mystic in it as well.

 

[Zarithar]

Dominaria.

You heard it here first....

I would actually love it if they would take all of the Magic/D&D conversions they've done over the past couple of years and compile those into a hardcover (and add some new material). We have new races, monsters, builds, backgrounds, etc. I'd be happy with that!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Werewolves aren't playable and just using Tieflings gives no Elven traits at all.

To which I say, don't care much for wolf elves. And the Fiendish traits replaced the Elven Traits.

 

[Darrius_Adler]

Since they don't want to do setting books, seems like they could do a Worlds of the Multiverse book and have each chapter devoted to the unique items of a specific world. Class options, feats, special metals/materials, etc. Leaving prior published material to flesh out the world but giving people the offical versions of items they need for those worlds. And then maybe a companion monster book with signature creatures detailed along with a paragraph about where they fit in their home world and how they have reached out into others.

 

[Eltab]

AL players can become lords of towns and cities and shape the world as they play in it.

I have an AL-legal character who wants to become a Merchant Prince.

 

[vecna00]

I am beyond ready. Hell, I won't even be mad if they announce a setting I don't like.

Unless they announce Greyhawk and Lankhmar as the first two. Then I would be a sad panda.

 

[guachi]

I think we'd be more likely to get something that doesn't compete with Forgotten Realms. So Planescape and Spelljammer, for example.

The Realms won't get direct competition.