WotC What classic setting SHOULD WotC publish and why?

[Tonguez]

I’m also a fan of Birthright and 5E needs a setting they can use to push out both Kingdom Building rules and develop the Social Pillar of the game.

Downtime is the game, adventures are the distractions you do when not playing the Game of Thrones.

Birthright done on a new Asian Setting would be awesome too

 

[Bitbrain]

I want WOTC to update Dark Sun for 5e because Dark Sun feels different from most of the other classic settings:

Humans and dwarves can have kids together, but unlike in the Forgotten Realms (where such offspring are dwarves), the athasian half-dwarves are on average taller and stronger than either parent.

For all intents and purposes, Athas is a world near the end of time, orbiting a red giant star.

Civilization has effectively regressed back to the Bronze Age.

Most everyone has a psychic ability of one kind or another.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

The Nentir Vale!

Why?

• It support the whole idea of level 1 to 30, from savior of the Harkenwold to going face to face against Tiamat in her own lair.
• The story is yet to be written: the Vale is a blank page, you'll need to go see what's beyond the next hill; there's no 300 pages long setting book to tell you every event for every inch of territory.
• The setting still holds dangers: there's no super heroic army or NPC that will need to be handwaved to make a threat to the region realistic.
• Kingmaker domain: The vale is a frontier. It was at the edge of a recently fallen empire, and the chosen battlefield of 2 others. As you raise in level, will you reclaim the lost banner of Nerath and set forth to claim the throne, or claim you birthright as a scion on Bael'Thurath? Will you gather the last legion of Arkhosia or rally the baronies of the Vale into a new kingdom ruled by yourself.
• Difference: Tieflings and Dragonborns are part of the setting, not tacked on. The cosmology is simple and close to the old ones we know from our history. Dwarves live in a huge necropolis in the open-air at the base of the mountains, sharing the city with orcs and ghosts. Blackpowder is a thing. Every classic thing has its own twist in the Vale.
• A pretty awesome map from the boardgame.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

None.

Start from scratch so as to ditch the whining from the so called fans who will inevitably complain about the changes.

 

[Parmandur]

Humans and dwarves can have kids together.

Humans and Dwarves cna have kids in the ForgottenRealma, they are just always Dwarves: same with Elves, Halflings or Gnomes: their kids with Dwarvea are just always Dwarves. This is established in Canon.

 

[Parmandur]

Spelljammer, because the only better thing than murder hoboing is murder hoboing iiiiiin spaaaaaaaceee.

 

[Bitbrain]

Humans and Dwarves cna have kids in the ForgottenRealma, they are just always Dwarves: same with Elves, Halflings or Gnomes: their kids with Dwarvea are just always Dwarves. This is established in Canon.

Didn’t know that. Will edit post.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Humans and Dwarves cna have kids in the ForgottenRealma, they are just always Dwarves: same with Elves, Halflings or Gnomes: their kids with Dwarvea are just always Dwarves. This is established in Canon.

Half-dwarf

Dwelfs are one of the reasons FR is the best D&D settings ever.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The Nentir Vale!

Why?

• It support the whole idea of level 1 to 30, from savior of the Harkenwold to going face to face against Tiamat in her own lair.
• The story is yet to be written: the Vale is a blank page, you'll need to go see what's beyond the next hill; there's no 300 pages long setting book to tell you every event for every inch of territory.
• The setting still holds dangers: there's no super heroic army or NPC that will need to be handwaved to make a threat to the region realistic.
• Kingmaker domain: The vale is a frontier. It was at the edge of a recently fallen empire, and the chosen battlefield of 2 others. As you raise in level, will you reclaim the lost banner of Nerath and set forth to claim the throne, or claim you birthright as a scion on Bael'Thurath? Will you gather the last legion of Arkhosia or rally the baronies of the Vale into a new kingdom ruled by yourself.
• Difference: Tieflings and Dragonborns are part of the setting, not tacked on. The cosmology is simple and close to the old ones we know from our history. Dwarves live in a huge necropolis in the open-air at the base of the mountains, sharing the city with orcs and ghosts. Blackpowder is a thing. Every classic thing has its own twist in the Vale.
• A pretty awesome map from the boardgame.

The Nentir Vale got split as meal between Exandia and FR, leaving nothing but bones and leftovers. RIP.

 

[Ath-kethin]

Kara-Tur or Al-Qadim.
Why mess around? Embrace the desire to expand DnD culturally and engage some diverse creators to give the settings some legitimacy.
Hard to do? Oh yes.

In fairness, there is a Zakhara book on DM's Guild.

Full disclosure: I wrote it.

Campaign Guide: Zakhara - Adventures in the Land of Fate (Al-Qadim and Forgotten Realms Sourcebook) - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild