WotC What classic setting SHOULD WotC publish and why?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Tieflings and dragonborn aren't even prominent in the Nentir Vale's spiritual successor, Exandria (from Critical Role).

Exandria isn't a spiritual successor to the Nentir Vale. It's a setting that was influenced in large part by being started during the 4E era.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Also, the two runners up in the contest that Eberron won and that they kept the rights to. If you're gonna hold the rights you should publish it.

I had forgotten about that. That's weird as hell for them to sit on them all this time.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Where are the fallen empires of dragonborn and tieflings?

hey, Exandria had a dragonborn empire...under the superbly original name of...Draconia!

My guess is that future Exandria releases will show that there was a tiefling empire in the past, probably named Tieflinglandia.

 

[darjr]

I had forgotten about that. That's weird as hell for them to sit on them all this time.

From what I understand they weren’t more than very large essays. Probably fantastic ones, but would still need a large investment to turn into products.

 

[Parmandur]

I had forgotten about that. That's weird as hell for them to sit on them all this time.

They repurposed most of the material from thenother two finalistsnfor Eberron products, reportedly according to he other finalists (stuff like the Death cult Elves).

 

[Mercurius]

Personally, I hope they don't go Planejammer. Not only did Planescape and Spelljammer have such very different feels to them, but you simply don't get the same sort of hazards in Wildspace or the Phlogiston than you do in the Astral.

But "Planejammer" could be the Astral Sea. That seems to be the best bet for a hybrid of the two. Meaning, spelljammers are just another way of traveling the planes, but via the Astral Sea.

 

[darjr]

I soooo so so much wan't the Astral Sea.

 

[Faolyn]

But "Planejammer" could be the Astral Sea. That seems to be the best bet for a hybrid of the two. Meaning, spelljammers are just another way of traveling the planes, but via the Astral Sea.

If they want to do ships in the Astral and use them to travel from location to location, that's cool with me.

But Spelljammer takes place in space. There aren't any of the space hazards in the Astral: it's timeless, so you don't need to breathe, eat, or drink, and maintaining your 'jammer's air envelope and making you have enough provisions on your ship is actually important in Spelljammer. The lack of gravity doesn't even work in the same way: Spelljammer at least pretends to use physics in the way freefall works, meaning falling overboard is actually risky. In the Astral, you can just think yourself wherever you want to go. And unless they completely rewrite the Astral, there's also no planets, asteroids, comets, or--as TV Tropes puts it--negative space wedgies there, while they exist in spades in Spelljammer. Nor would most of the kooky space opera/Star Trek/misc. space anime creatures or events of Spelljammer really fit into the Astral.

Yes, it's possible for them to do the Astral Sea, but I really don't think that they'll be able to do Spelljammer that way. They're just too different.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I think for 5e is that Spelljammer can move through either space, that weird Spelljammer stuff between Crystal Spheres and the Astral Plane/Sea.

 

[Mercurius]

If they want to do ships in the Astral and use them to travel from location to location, that's cool with me.

But Spelljammer takes place in space. There aren't any of the space hazards in the Astral: it's timeless, so you don't need to breathe, eat, or drink, and maintaining your 'jammer's air envelope and making you have enough provisions on your ship is actually important in Spelljammer. The lack of gravity doesn't even work in the same way: Spelljammer at least pretends to use physics in the way freefall works, meaning falling overboard is actually risky. In the Astral, you can just think yourself wherever you want to go. And unless they completely rewrite the Astral, there's also no planets, asteroids, comets, or--as TV Tropes puts it--negative space wedgies there, while they exist in spades in Spelljammer. Nor would most of the kooky space opera/Star Trek/misc. space anime creatures or events of Spelljammer really fit into the Astral.

Yes, it's possible for them to do the Astral Sea, but I really don't think that they'll be able to do Spelljammer that way. They're just too different.

Yeah, I know, but it doesn't have to be either/or, either Wildspace or the Astral Sea. They are two different planes of existence, one physical, the other astral, and spelljammers could travel both.

My guess is that WotC publishes a Planes book that includes spelljammers as a means of traveling the Astral Sea, with a docking system in Sigil (can't remember if that was part of 4E). The Wildspace could be introduced in a standalone adventure, perhaps with the PCs discovering a spelljammer that they take out into Wildspace.