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

[Mind of tempest]

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.

we could go it is much a ship campaign as it is an underwater setting?

definitely have to move what is in setting important around as against will not work and dwarves just seem daft.
maybe give the less used races a chance to shine?

 

[Yora]

Doesn't Eberron already fill the modern setting niche?
It seems to be based on 1920s-30s.

 

[Minigiant]

I want Battle of the Pantheons. D&D constantly talks about deities and their followers fighting but no setting is based on it outside of Obviously Good vs Obviously Evil.

Accord to my thread on the subject, people here want low magic planar swashbuckling and swords and sorcery. Basically One Piece before the Haki. A bunch of pirates and vagabonds traveling to crazy lands looking for treasure.

 

[Bitbrain]

I want Battle of the Pantheons. D&D constantly talks about deities and their followers fighting but no setting is based on it outside of Obviously Good vs Obviously Evil.

Accord to my thread on the subject, people here want low magic planar swashbuckling and swords and sorcery. Basically One Piece before the Haki. A bunch of pirates and vagabonds traveling to crazy lands looking for treasure.

Looks to me like on this thread people want a post-apocalyptic, futuristic, and modern/urban world...

Basically Fallout

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Doesn't Eberron already fill the modern setting niche?
It seems to be based on 1920s-30s.

1920 was a hundred years ago!

 

[Tonguez]

I want Battle of the Pantheons. D&D constantly talks about deities and their followers fighting but no setting is based on it outside of Obviously Good vs Obviously Evil.

Accord to my thread on the subject, people here want low magic planar swashbuckling and swords and sorcery. Basically One Piece before the Haki. A bunch of pirates and vagabonds traveling to crazy lands looking for treasure.

any of you younguns remember Pirates of Darkwater?

 

[Mind of tempest]

any of you younguns remember Pirates of Darkwater?

it rings a bell but I have no idea why.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

any of you younguns remember Pirates of Darkwater?

Yes, and it was awesome. Would really like to see it rerun or remade on a streaming channel.

 

[Minigiant]

any of you younguns remember Pirates of Darkwater?

Don't make me remember. I wanted more seasons.

 

[aco175]

any idea what you do want?

Still not sure, but some of the others have piqued my interest. A Thundarr the Barbarian world where in the future magic is just old technology that most forget how to use. Maybe real magic creeps in through a fey tie somehow and these concepts clash. Keep it more gritty and less Eberron with large kingdoms and such.

Saw this when looking for another Thundarr image- thought this may be cooler.