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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MasterTrancer" data-source="post: 6440602" data-attributes="member: 6762055">As this thread goes on, I'm wondering about the actual meaning of "5E version of a setting".What I mean is, speaking as a big Planescape fan, that yes, I'd love so much PS support in 5E but...what would that mean? A reprint of the original material, updated for the new edition but otherwise identical in fluff? Or maybe an updated version, set for example after The Faction's War?In the former case, I think the appeal would be very low, especially since the ease of conversion between 2E/3E and 5E (at least, this is how it looks). Considering all the previously published material, I'd see more profitable (better, less onerous) the release of several small booklets with the conversion rules, one for each "classic" publication at 0.99 USD, linked to the related dndclassic.com entry. But in this case it would be very difficult to recruit new players into the old settings.Should they go with the "updated" versions...well, I don't know how it would be really feasible: I'm not very well versed in each and every setting, but I gather that the cyclical cataclisms so typical of the Forgotten Realms are not so common elsewhere (save maybe the different ages in DragonLance); moreover, the world-shaking events are from what I see tied mostly into fiction, which D&D mostly lacks outside FR and DL. I mean, what else could happen to, say, Strahd or Lord Soth?So, as I have written I would LOVE the support of old settings but thinking through it with a bit of detachment it would be quite prohibitive to hope for new boxed full settings. All in all I think we could see them as "glimpses", along the forthcoming "adventure paths" (e.g.: a "Great Modron March" like adventure with a companion book on the Great Wheel and some detail), and refer to dndclassics.com for the original stuff.</blockquote>

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