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!

 

[Jester David]

You can believe what you want. I couldn't care less. I don't have to lie to you, I don't know who you are either, and your approval isn't necessary.

As the person making a claim, the burden of proof is on you.

If you're part of the private playtest, you shouldn't be saying anything. You're under NDA.
If you're not... then you probably need to explain the source of your explicable knowledge, or be prepared to be disbelieved. If you can't explain... you also probably shouldn't have said anything.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Edit to add: Just went back and double checked the reference about Jemorille and that makes more sense now. Haven't read Faces of Sigil in a while. It's an in-character statement made by someone who claims to single-handedly be behind most every major event in all the worlds including the Temple of Elemental Evil (creation and destruction) and the Tuigan Horde, as well as being personally responsible for the entire Blood War, and don't forget - completely controlling Sigil itself with the Lady of Pain as just a useful illusion. So, yeah, even canonically in Planescape that claim of influence in Athas is extreeeeemely dubious. Either Jemorille is the greatest antagonist in the history of the multiverse (which could be an interesting campaign) or he's full of [redacted for Eric's Grandma]. I'm pretty sure in Planescape canon, it's the second option.)

I'm of the opinion that he might be right about some of his claims, it's just that they didn't happen the way he claimed. Like perhaps he was in disguise as an unassuming assistant to Rajaat in the Green Age and stumbled spilling some really hot Gnomish Coffee all over Rajaat's crotch, who then made the sudden outburst of "That's it! No more Gnomish coffee again! We're exterminating the entire Gnomish race!"

 

[SkidAce]

If 5E isn't the game for you, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But the idea that 5E is somehow killing the ability for us to create our own settings is simply inaccurate on the face of it.

Quoted for truth...this line says it all.

Not piling either, other than the hope of helping...

 

[SkidAce]

All humans exist in one world - this one. And all campaign settings exist in the minds of humans. Ergo all campaign settings already exist within the same world.

(emphasis mine)

Your logic is based on an assumption you can neither prove nor disprove.

 

[neogod22]

As the person making a claim, the burden of proof is on you.

If you're part of the private playtest, you shouldn't be saying anything. You're under NDA.
If you're not... then you probably need to explain the source of your explicable knowledge, or be prepared to be disbelieved. If you can't explain... you also probably shouldn't have said anything.

If I cared who believed me, you may be right. But the thing is, in the past, wizards have all the playtest material to all the groups, and leaks happened. They had no way of knowing where it came from. Recently, they stopped accepting new NDAs, started deleting current ones and started selecting which groups get which material in order to find out where leaks are coming from. So pardon me if I decide to not say my name, which books I've actually played that haven't been released yet, or anything else that may compromise my group's ability to keep receiving material from Wizards to impress some faceless masses on a forum. You're not important enough.

 

[Prakriti]

If I cared who believed me, you may be right. But the thing is, in the past, wizards have all the playtest material to all the groups, and leaks happened. They had no way of knowing where it came from. Recently, they stopped accepting new NDAs, started deleting current ones and started selecting which groups get which material in order to find out where leaks are coming from. So pardon me if I decide to not say my name, which books I've actually played that haven't been released yet, or anything else that may compromise my group's ability to keep receiving material from Wizards to impress some faceless masses on a forum. You're not important enough.

Jester David isn't trying to wheedle more information out of you. He's telling you that if you signed an NDA, then you have either breached it or come very close to breaching it. What's more, this isn't the first time you've done it; I recall you making similar comments in the past. Personally, I find it distasteful and think you should stop.

 

[Jester David]

If I cared who believed me, you may be right. But the thing is, in the past, wizards have all the playtest material to all the groups, and leaks happened. They had no way of knowing where it came from. Recently, they stopped accepting new NDAs, started deleting current ones and started selecting which groups get which material in order to find out where leaks are coming from. So pardon me if I decide to not say my name, which books I've actually played that haven't been released yet, or anything else that may compromise my group's ability to keep receiving material from Wizards to impress some faceless masses on a forum. You're not important enough.

Then you shouldn’t have said anything in the first place.

 

[CapnZapp]

From a business sense WOTC might want to capture and capitalise in areas where a 5E product currently doesn't go

I fear their analysis is the opposite:

The only books that consistently bring in enough profit are those almost every gamer needs and wants.

In other words: subclasses, monsters and adventures nominally set in the Realms, but easily used in your home campaign world too.

 

[Inglorin]

Then you shouldn’t have said anything in the first place.

But then they wouldn't have that exhilarating sense of importance.

 

[Mercurius]

I don't have any special insider knowledge, but I would still be willing to bet my life that it isn't Greyhawk...

That seems like a rather unnecesary gamble. I mean, I agree that it won't be Greyhawk, but in the off chance that it is, it will be sad and weird to think of some dude on ENWorld who died because he chose poorly.