D&D 5E What Main Themes Would You Want a New Official Setting to Focus On?

[DammitVictor]

No Other Planes, High Magic, Urban/Modern. (I'd be happy with Futuristic/Space as an alternative.)

 

[Blue Orange]

You don't need a whole setting, but more use of rival adventuring parties would be nice. Your party is the only one working their way up the level food chain? Occasional attacks by rival groups of 4-5 characters eager for magic items would be amusing.

 

[J.Quondam]

I'd like to see support for modern settings.
And while it's not something I'm fond of, I wouldn't be surprised to that presented as supers or something.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You don't need a whole setting, but more use of rival adventuring parties would be nice. Your party is the only one working their way up the level food chain? Occasional attacks by rival groups of 4-5 characters eager for magic items would be amusing.

Do you need a book to allow you to do this?

 

[Tonguez]

I'd like to see support for modern settings.
And while it's not something I'm fond of, I wouldn't be surprised to that presented as supers or something.

So D20 Modern 5e?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Voted: Futuristic, High Magic, and "There Are Heroes" (what I would just call "Heroic").

We have a high-magic urban fantasy setting: Eberron. We have plenty of "no-heroes" options (Ravenloft and Dark Sun come to mind). We have post-apocalypse covered by Dark Sun. In fact, pretty much everything on the list is already well-covered except Futuristic.

I want a science-fantasy setting, a world where Magic is one of the fundamental Sciences alongside Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. A setting where elder dragons might rule planets, where an ancient colony ship from a race long thought extinct can crash-land on a planet's surface and begin their recovery. Where people would make comparisons to the Mos Eisley Cantina positively, because "wow, now I finally get to PLAY in one!" rather than derisively because it doesn't fit their ultra-rigid conception of what fantasy is allowed to be.

We don't have that yet. Planescape and Spelljammer won't provide it, either. I want something that's in the vein of Shadowrun, but more advanced tech. Where it's valid to have Clone Trooper as a background or to be a Circle of the Webcrawler Druid.

 

[Thunder Brother]

I want to swash some buckles.

I want an archipelago world filled with islands of adventure. I want WotC to take the adventure prompts and ship rules from Ghosts of Saltmarsh and crank it up to 11.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I want to swash some buckles.

I want an archipelago world filled with islands of adventure. I want WotC to take the adventure prompts and ship rules from Ghosts of Saltmarsh and crank it up to 11.

any ideas on the twists for the setting as just strait pirates would seem odd.

 

[Ixal]

I voted:

Mirror world: Just in the hopes that it will cause to be more detailed and include themes usually not found in high fantasy like a more detailed feudal system instead of pseudo nation states

World with Heroes: Because it just makes sense that there would be more adventurers, mercenaries and fortune hunters than just the PCs and I generally dislike the PCs as superspecial chosen ones trope.

No other Planes: Because I would rather see all creative juice being focused on the main world instead of it spread around multiple planes.

 

[Thunder Brother]

any ideas on the twists for the setting as just strait pirates would seem odd.

I think if you go full water world you can get some really interesting twists beyond "fantasy Caribbean"; ship cities, living islands, merfolk kingdoms, etc. Take every nautical trope from the Odyssey to Horatio Hornblower and smash them all together and I think you could have something cool.