I think the Dalelands are much more interesting than Myth Dranor, especially in this era of Cozy RPGs.
I think WotC should publish an entire Book of Cozy Adventures for the laidback rural idyllic. I'd focus the book on the Dales themselves, detailing village life, the Inn, a major festival and local 'situations' ( adventure seeds) like bad weather and crop failures, uncertain contracts, unresolved grudges, fey mischief and keeping the roads open and harvest steady.
Myth Dranor should come in the lingering rustic horror of dark roads and misty woods, unbidden dreams and relics washed down in a storm. The Zhentarim threat comes as warnings to avoid black wagons, foreign silver and unfair debts.
Book I: The Way of the Dales
Welcome to the Dales - Life in the Village, The Inn, Traditions and Festivals, A local 'Situation'
The Land and its Ways - Geography of the Dales, Roads, Rivers, Forests, Travel risks
The Dale Year Calendar - Seasonal Calendar, Weather tables and risks, Seasonal Tasks, Crafting,
Hearth and Hall- Inns, farmsteads, festivals, Guest-Right and keeping the peace.
The Dales Council -Politics and Intrigue in the Dalelands, Significant NPCs, Foreign Affairs
I think making a cosy collection is too narrow a market for an anthology, just as is a setting specific one. You can take a standard adventure and cosy or gritty it up to taste.
Whatever, I'm pretty sure the people at B&G wouldn't get excited enough over a cosy collection to want to make a big expensive boxed set out of it. If you look at what they have done before, you can see the sort of thing they like/consider commercial.
Oh good lord, now this thread is going to break down by not being able to define what "creative" or "young/old" is! In the words of Charlie Brown, "Good grief!" (If any wants, we can also argue about what Charlie Brown actually meant when he used that phrase.
I don't no about all of them, but environmental collapse had been a thing in the US since at least the '70s. Heck, Dune came out in the '60s and has a lot of DS themes.
I think we're drifting a bit. The original claim, IIRC, was that DS's environmental collapse & social tyranny are even more relevant today than in the 80's, not that they weren't relevant then. And earlier.
I voted "other" because I don't expect there will be a big adventure in 2026. The Beadle & Grimm platinum edition will likely be a reprint of something that already came out - Tomb of Annihilation or something.
I voted "other" because I don't expect there will be a big adventure in 2026. The Beadle & Grimm platinum edition will likely be a reprint of something that already came out - Tomb of Annihilation or something.
