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

[Micah Sweet]

That's an excellent point. From what I remember of Dark Sun, though, isn't slavery practiced by the evil dragon kings, and isn't one of the main narrative arcs of the video games the struggle against slavery? It's a little disturbing you can't have a setting with an anti-slavery theme, especially as it's something almost every group's had done to it at some point, and most people throughout history were serfs. (The Brits were slaves of the Romans, for instance...)

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

 

[Mind of tempest]

honestly, I do not care as long as we get some new iconic things from them like well-built races and maybe a new class as iconic for a setting helps and those would also get people to buy the books even if they hate the setting.

 

[Mind of tempest]

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

we literally could not have a game then or at least it would have to mutate into something beyond any type of game that presently exists.

 

[Micah Sweet]

we literally could not have a game then or at least it would have to mutate into something beyond any type of game that presently exists.

Certainly I'm engaging in hyperbole, but things have definitely been trending this direction of late.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Certainly I'm engaging in hyperbole, but things have definitely been trending this direction of late.

it is more a sign of the time give it forty years at it will have cooled off in one of many ways.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

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

That is not true. They still discuss slavery after all. The current issue with the Hadozee was beyond simply slavery. I would hope you are able to realize that, but either you don’t or you feel it is more important to take cheap shots. Either way I am not sure you’re someone I want to engage with anymore.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That is not true. They still discuss slavery after all. The current issue with the Hadozee was beyond simply slavery. I would hope you are able to realize that, but either you don’t or you feel it is more important to take cheap shots. Either way I am not sure you’re someone I want to engage with anymore.

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.

 

[Mind of tempest]

That is not true. They still discuss slavery after all. The current issue with the Hadozee was beyond simply slavery. I would hope you are able to realize that, but either you don’t or you feel it is more important to take cheap shots. Either way I am not sure you’re someone I want to engage with anymore.

I think there are actors on Twitter who would want to remove all mentions of slaver for example for assorted reasons but it is likely they are just a really small group who happens to be super loud, personally, I want more variety to my evil factions if only so I can fight things other than cults and slavers need some variety of motivation.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think there are actors on Twitter who would want to remove all mentions of slaver for example for assorted reasons but it is likely they are just a really small group who happens to be super loud, personally, I want more variety to my evil factions if only so I can fight things other than cults and slavers need some variety of motivation.

To be fair, it's a really small group that seems to include all of Paizo.

 

[Blue]

I believe the spirit of this is what setting do you want to see, so I'll vote that way. But really, I don't want it "next" unless that's after the 2024 Anniversary edition to make sure it has a long usable life.

I think at this point it's Greyhawk. While Dark Sun is one of my favorites, I've played multiple campaigns in it. And while I started back with Moldvay's Red Box Basic set, I've never really played in Greyhawk except as default for some of the old modules. Never got a chance to explore it as a setting.