D&D (2024) What older setting do you want to see next?

[Hriston]

I'm not interested in canned settings at this point, not even homebrew. I'd rather the setting emerge during gameplay, so I chose "other".

 

[R_J_K75]

I'd prefer they don't bother updating any legacy settings anymore. I'd much rather have a new setting that's actually supported with more than one book. If they're going to do one though I'd like to see a proper FR book. If they're going to have a default setting, then just stick to that.

 

[Parmandur]

Now that we know Planescape is coming, I voted for both Greyhawk and Dark Sun (technically listed as <Other>), but with the proviso that I want them only on condition that neither they nor Planescape are treated the way Spelljammer apparently was. A proper campaign setting is large, robust, detailed, and robustly imaginative; it need not include any "starter" adventures or even any explicit adventure hooks, but writers who want to include such certainly can. The setting itself, though, needs to be as expansive and encompassing as the world it describes. DM screens are cute, fun, and useful (assuming essential charts, maps, etc. are on their interiors), but they do not count as part of the setting.

I want a return to the true campaign setting; give me those and I'll be happy.

They already announced that the Planescape project is formatted exactly like Spelljammer: a slipcase with a campaign guide, a bestiary, and an adventure book.

It is passing lyrics likely thst future Setting products will look like thst, or like the Drsgonlance AP.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd like to see a Greyhawk product, that takes just the original Setting guide and updates it for a modern audience, includes weird old pulpy monsters to get thar 1E wooly ztyle...and Castle Greyhawk as a campaign.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Apparently, we're no longer allowed to mention unpleasant things that have ever happened to real life people in any context.

I was talking Dark Sun, and the unlikelihood of slavery being part of a 5e version of the setting even as an evil to fight against. Not about the hadozee issue, which actually does have some real problems.

Neogi and Mind Flayers are still slavers. So are Duergar, Drow, and plenty of other enemies in D&D. I don't think the problem is slavery, I think it's whether or not WotC can avoid stumbling into a bad trope with the slavery. And if slavery is the issue, they can change it to be more like indentured servitude, which is a type of slavery and is already kind of similar to how slavery works on Dark Sun.

 

[Haplo781]

Neogi and Mind Flayers are still slavers. So are Duergar, Drow, and plenty of other enemies in D&D. I don't think the problem is slavery, I think it's whether or not WotC can avoid stumbling into a bad trope with the slavery. And if slavery is the issue, they can change it to be more like indentured servitude, which is a type of slavery and is already kind of similar to how slavery works on Dark Sun.

Yeah - they can ditch the open-air slave markets and keep the "prisoners with jobs" aspect.

 

[James Gasik]

Efreeti still enslave the Azer in the City of Brass, right?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Efreeti still enslave the Azer in the City of Brass, right?

Yep.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yep.

I hope you guys are right, and they find a way to keep some of the hard stuff in an acceptable way. You're certainly right about Spelljammer, and I should have taken that into account. We won't really know about a lot of this stuff until the new MM and the monster lore it does or doesn't have is released.

 

[Guest 7034872]

They already announced that the Planescape project is formatted exactly like Spelljammer: a slipcase with a campaign guide, a bestiary, and an adventure book.

It is passing lyrics likely thst future Setting products will look like thst, or like the Drsgonlance AP.

I don't mind them including those things; I just want them to do a much better job on the setting book. So long as that happens, I'll be happy.