D&D 5E (2024) What older setting do you want to see next?

[Digdude]

I'd personally rather see this addressed by an Eldraine book (MtG setting). Which is coincidentally getting a revisit next year.

I never heard of this setting, interesting.

 

[Digdude]

Birthright's going to get tricky with the magic bloodlines.

I doubt Greyhawk has much of a fanbase outside of grognards, sadly. It's just not different enough from the other fantasy settings. Same with Mystara (though the fanbase is a little younger--Moyenne Garde perhaps?).

My money's on Dark Sun.

No way this ever happens with all the recent slavery reference in content.

 

[JEB]

No way this ever happens with all the recent slavery reference in content.

Unless they radically overhaul it - which Spelljammer's "Doomspace" was likely an attempt to do (that they thought better of).

 

[Micah Sweet]

You said the only reason for a reboot was financial and I agree. I also added that is the only reason for the game at all. They do it to make money.

There are better ways to make money, even for a publishing company, than to create an RPG.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

There are better ways to make money, even for a publishing company, than to create an RPG.

 

[Yaarel]

For the 2024 anniversary, I want local settings for both Blackmoor and Greyhawk, the towns only.

Greyhawk is a medievalesque version of bustling city Chicago. Blackmoor is something like remote town Churchill, Canada, on the Hudson Bay.



I love some of the Oerth setting concepts but fear it cannot be done for todays ethical sensibilities without fundamentally altering the original. For example, its corresponding Indigenous of Central and South Americas, are actually White people Suel who are the origin of these Indigenous, as well as Scarlet Brotherhood N*zi ideology, and nonhistorical brutish Conan-the-Barbarian stereotypes of reallife Nordic peoples, including Viking Period.

There is no way these can enter 2024 without serious backlash, even legal responses.

 

[Yaarel]

Also Mystara would be a landmine when it came to sensitivity content.

This.

 

[Tonguez]

I never heard of this setting, interesting.

Eldraine is King Arthur in a Fairytale world. It features 5 ‘human” Realms (One ruled by a giant) plus a number of Wild locations inhabited by fairytale creatures (including elves, dwarfs, goblins, trolls, giants, faeries and dragons)

Eldraine

Eldraine (pronounced EL-drain) is a plane introduced in the Throne of Eldraine set and described in Kate Elliott's The Wildered Quest. Eldraine is a medieval world filled with knights, castles, and magical creatures. Wild magic is woven through the heart of the plane and two opposing but...

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[TwiceBorn2]

1. Greyhawk
2. Dark Sun
3. Birthright
4. Mystara

 

[Blue Orange]

No way this ever happens with all the recent slavery reference in content.

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...)