D&D 5E What do you want and not want out of future settings added to 5E?

[CleverNickName]

Honestly, I'm more interested in a "less is more" approach. I'm getting pretty bored with the Kitchen Sink campaign settings that strain to include literally everything imaginable. Castles and swords and robots and dragons and lasers and cannons and zombie space pirate ninjas because "WoAh AnYtHiNg CaN hApPeN hErE!" doesn't really interest me. We already have Eberron, we already have Wildemount.

I would much prefer a new world that is carefully tailored to fit a theme, and is identifiable as much by what isn't included as what is. I'd be very interested in a campaign setting that is based on the lore and mythology of Welsh mythology and legend, for example, but only if it stays true to the theme. If I see warforged and samurai in there, I'm putting it down and walking away.

Maybe I'm just too picky.

 

[John R Davis]

Slightly easier to run adventures that don't need a remix

 

[jmartkdr2]

Honestly, I'm more interested in a "less is more" approach. I'm getting pretty bored with the Kitchen Sink campaign settings that strain to include literally everything imaginable. Castles and swords and robots and dragons and lasers and cannons and zombie space pirate ninjas because "WoAh AnYtHiNg CaN hApPeN hErE!" doesn't really interest me. We already have Eberron, we already have Wildemount.

I would much prefer a new world that is carefully tailored to fit a theme, and is identifiable as much by what isn't included as what is. I'd be very interested in a campaign setting that is based on the lore and mythology of Welsh mythology and legend, for example, but only if it stays true to the theme. If I see warforged and samurai, I'm putting it down and walking away.

Maybe I'm just too picky.

This, but I'd also want a really good multiverse spanning toolkit that lets me pull from lot of places to run an absolute restaurant dumpster of a kitchen-sink setting; I wanna be able to go full Star Wars and have thousands of worlds for creatures to be from. The travel should probably be mostly one-way to maintain the little settings, though.

Planescape kinda works but is too alignment-focused for my tastes.

 

[SkidAce]

I don't want them to release any classic settings. Because that might be the only way to get the people who keep saying they want older settings released to 5E to finally give up on that idea and instead just play the older versions of the settings they already own and update them to 5E themselves. Because anything WotC does to publish these old settings for 5E is only going to remove or change things that these classic players felt like they HAD to have had for it to be a true representation... and they're going to just come here on the boards complaining and complaining and complaining. And frankly I'd just rather not see the boards here flooded with the inevitable caterwauling.

I can tell you all right now... a good lot of you are going to hate Dark Sun 5E if/when it gets released. So do yourself a favor and go dust off your 2E Athas material, do a google search for a set of defiler/preserver and breakable weapon house rules... and then play in Dark Sun with what you already got. It's the only way you're going to be truly happy.

I wish I could like this post twice.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

do you want lots of anthro races instead or something else?

Anthros, talking animals, robots, weird aliens, etc. Every setting has humans, and most fantasy settings have some kind of "these could totally be played by humans in makeup and prosthesis" — often elves and dwarves — so even if you try to do something with lots of re-imagining like Dark Sun it still doesn't feel that different to me because I've seen too many versions of the same thing.

(Not gonna happen, I know, but I wasn't asked "What's a setting WotC is likely to release?")

 

[Mind of tempest]

Anthros, talking animals, robots, weird aliens, etc. Every setting has humans, and most fantasy settings have some kind of "these could totally be played by humans in makeup and prosthesis" — often elves and dwarves — so even if you try to do something with lots of re-imagining like Dark Sun it still doesn't feel that different to me because I've seen too many versions of the same thing.

(Not gonna happen, I know, but I wasn't asked "What's a setting WotC is likely to release?")

ah so we agree on that then

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

ah so we agree on that then

I mean it's possible this would lead to them making something I still don't like. But I'd rather try then have to pass by another "the standard D&D line-up do stuff" setting.

 

[Scribe]

I mean it's possible this would lead to them making something I still don't like. But I'd rather try then have to pass by another "the standard D&D line-up do stuff" setting.

The problem is those standard options are (based on the polling here) wildly more popular than fringe options.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

The problem is those standard options are (based on the polling here) wildly more popular than fringe options.

Why do people continue to tell me this like I don't know it?

(Not gonna happen, I know, but I wasn't asked "What's a setting WotC is likely to release?")

 

[Mind of tempest]

The problem is those standard options are (based on the polling here) wildly more popular than fringe options.

likely because the less common options really get to shine in a setting plus they are not the default.

Why do people continue to tell me this like I don't know it?

on the plus side, dragonborn are likely to be a main race going forward and they are different from the rest of the baseline.