D&D 5E What Adventure Storylines Do You Want to See?

[Jester David]

Tyranny of Dragons is half over and in March we can expect Princess of the Apocalypse as part of the Elemental Evil storyline.


What would you like to see next? What adventures (and related splatbooks) would you like to see over the next few years?
What kind of stories do you want WotC to tell?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Not necessarily next, but at some point I'd like to see a scheming-aboleth-centered underdark campaign. A spiritual relative to the old "Night Below," only with a lot more focus on RP, interaction, investigation. (NB started well, but deteriorated into nothing but dungeon crawl. I don't mind dungeon crawl as a part of a campaign, but nowhere near a majority.) Plus, I've never yet seen the aboleth used to full potential--or sufficiently alien--in a published adventure.

Oh, and it needs to be drow-lite.

 

[occam]

What would you like to see next? What adventures (and related splatbooks) would you like to see over the next few years?
What kind of stories do you want WotC to tell?

If they won't be releasing setting sourcebooks, I want stories that serve as stealth intros to old campaign settings, i.e. adventure paths set in Kara-Tur and Zakhara, Sigil and the planes, maybe... wildspace?

 

[occam]

Not necessarily next, but at some point I'd like to see a scheming-aboleth-centered underdark campaign. A spiritual relative to the old "Night Below," only with a lot more focus on RP, interaction, investigation. (NB started well, but deteriorated into nothing but dungeon crawl. I don't mind dungeon crawl as a part of a campaign, but nowhere near a majority.) Plus, I've never yet seen the aboleth used to full potential--or sufficiently alien--in a published adventure.

Did you catch any of the Savage Tide adventure path at the end of Dungeon's print run? Aboleths played an important part in the middle of the AP; it was quite cool.

Oh, and it needs to be drow-lite.

In an Underdark campaign? Good luck.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I second revisiting the old campaign settings via the story model. In particular, I'd like to see a new "event" level adventure/story in Dragonlance.

Council of Wyrms would also be awesome, albeit unlikely (I think I'm one of a handful of fans of that setting).

As for actual storylines...

A nation vs nation war with no clear lines of good and evil. I.E. neither side is using demons or evil dragons or angels or whatever. Just an old fashioned fantasy war with PCs forced to pick a side.

A cosmic mystery that sends PCs into the planes (and maybe Sigil).

A nautical adventure inspired by Sinbad.

 

[Tormyr]

Spelljammer.

Barring that, something with a war theme a la War of the Burning Sky or Lodoss.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

Not necessarily next, but at some point I'd like to see a scheming-aboleth-centered underdark campaign. A spiritual relative to the old "Night Below," only with a lot more focus on RP, interaction, investigation. (NB started well, but deteriorated into nothing but dungeon crawl. I don't mind dungeon crawl as a part of a campaign, but nowhere near a majority.) Plus, I've never yet seen the aboleth used to full potential--or sufficiently alien--in a published adventure.

Oh, and it needs to be drow-lite.

This. Not only aboleth, but other classic D&D villains that are badly in need of some recognition. A storyline with githyanki as the main enemies and a final battle against the Lich-Queen would be a great addition to the game.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I second revisiting the old campaign settings via the story model. In particular, I'd like to see a new "event" level adventure/story in Dragonlance.

I know this is going to bring out the torches and pitchforks, but I'd love to see the whole thing rebooted, a la old and new Battlestar Galactica.

This is not a criticism of the original. But I think there's a lot of potential in the basic idea of Dragonlance--adventure-wise and novel-wise both--that could only be tapped by a fresh start without decades worth of baggage.

It wouldn't even have to be a replacement; just sort of an "alternate," like the Marvel Ultimates line.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I know this is going to bring out the torches and pitchforks, but I'd love to see the whole thing rebooted, a la old and new Battlestar Galactica.

This is not a criticism of the original. But I think there's a lot of potential in the basic idea of Dragonlance--adventure-wise and novel-wise both--that could only be tapped by a fresh start without decades worth of baggage.

It wouldn't even have to be a replacement; just sort of an "alternate," like the Marvel Ultimates line.

I'm all for it. They could even do it as a "soft reboot" with time travel ala Star Trek reboot as time travel is a well established element of the Dragonlance canon.

 

[Warunsun]

I know this is going to bring out the torches and pitchforks, but I'd love to see the whole thing rebooted, a la old and new Battlestar Galactica.

This is not a criticism of the original. But I think there's a lot of potential in the basic idea of Dragonlance--adventure-wise and novel-wise both--that could only be tapped by a fresh start without decades worth of baggage.

It wouldn't even have to be a replacement; just sort of an "alternate," like the Marvel Ultimates line.

I would so very much buy into this!