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

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I like the idea that it's the same Blackmoor due to weird planar convergence between both worlds.

Oh dear. Does this mean Blackmoor was a location in the First World?

 

[Remathilis]

Oh dear. Does this mean Blackmoor was a location in the First World?

Maybe. That would be an interesting avenue to explore...

 

[Parmandur]

Right. I think there's a 49% chance we'll see a one-off Greyhawk setting book in 2024 for just that reason, most likely centered around the City of Greyhawk.

But I see a 51% chance of them saying "you know, we could just give the larger existing audience what many of them are clamoring for, and do a big Forgotten Realms setting book." (That said, it won't be the 3E Forgotten Realms book, but something more modest and focused in nature, probably reprinting and replacing the Sword Coast book with more information about Waterdeep.)

Ray Winninger might feel a need to make up for the Castle Greyhawk module he wrote for.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh dear. Does this mean Blackmoor was a location in the First World?

Part of the point of the First World model seems to be allowing a reason a hkmebrew world can have a version of Waterdeep next door to Saltmarsh. So, yes.

 

[glass]

reflavoring of spells

...is never going to be an acceptable response to people who want interesting martials. Obviously.

I don't think WotC should publish any of the old settings. They can't be trusted with them.

I would not go quite that far, but I fear we will get a Dark Sun that gets the same in-name-only treatment as Spelljammer. And if they did do Mystara, they would almost certainly try to shoe-horn it into the Great Wheel, which while not as bad would still be disappointing - and actually thinking about it, the same applies to Nentir Vale. So I would rather they stay well clear of any of those.

As to what I do want, Ghostwalk or Birthright would be cool, as would Greyhawk, and they probably would not screw any of them up too badly. But my actual vote goes to Chanak. I may be the only one....

 

[Haplo781]

...is never going to be an acceptable response to people who want interesting martials. Obviously.


I would not go quite that far, but I fear we will get a Dark Sun that gets the same in-name-only treatment as Spelljammer. And if they did do Mystara, they would almost certainly try to shoe-horn it into the Great Wheel, which while not as bad would still be disappointing - and actually thinking about it, the same applies to Nentir Vale. So I would rather they stay well clear of any of those.

As to what I do want, Ghostwalk or Birthright would be cool, as would Greyhawk, and they probably would not screw any of them up too badly. But my actual vote goes to Chanak. I may be the only one....

The hell's a Chanak

 

[JEB]

The hell's a Chanak

Had to look that up myself - apparently it's a sample setting from the 2E supplement Creative Campaigning. Best description is here:

AlternityRPG.Net Forum -> Chanak

Super obscure, but actually sounds kind of interesting...

 

[Micah Sweet]

...is never going to be an acceptable response to people who want interesting martials. Obviously.


I would not go quite that far, but I fear we will get a Dark Sun that gets the same in-name-only treatment as Spelljammer. And if they did do Mystara, they would almost certainly try to shoe-horn it into the Great Wheel, which while not as bad would still be disappointing - and actually thinking about it, the same applies to Nentir Vale. So I would rather they stay well clear of any of those.

As to what I do want, Ghostwalk or Birthright would be cool, as would Greyhawk, and they probably would not screw any of them up too badly. But my actual vote goes to Chanak. I may be the only one....

What makes Chanak unique mechanically? Lore isn't enough reason to update a setting.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would not go quite that far, but I fear we will get a Dark Sun that gets the same in-name-only treatment as Spelljammer. And if they did do Mystara, they would almost certainly try to shoe-horn it into the Great Wheel, which while not as bad would still be disappointing - and actually thinking about it, the same applies to Nentir Vale.

They, and Eberron, would actually be a great thing to include in Planescape as examples of alternative multiverses (with the obligatory difficult method to get there), although in both cases, neither prime world would need to be mentioned.

My same reasoning about why Greyhawk would only be a nostalgia play also applies to Mystara, unfortunately. The core nations of the Known World don't do anything that the Sword Coast does not. (I was a prolific poster on the MML in the 1990s and am one of the few people who has run a campaign in The Five Shires, before anyone comes for me.) I just can't see WotC bothering with it.

As to what I do want, Ghostwalk or Birthright would be cool, as would Greyhawk, and they probably would not screw any of them up too badly. But my actual vote goes to Chanak. I may be the only one....

Ghostwalk, actually, I do think we have a possibility of seeing again, maybe in an undead-centric book, because it does something that D&D, weirdly, rarely does: talk about the afterlife and make it gamable. Yeah, Planescape sort of does that, but the action of that setting is not standing around with the dead in Elysium or Gehenna.

Ghostwalk not only talks about the experience of death and dying but actually gives a way for that not to be the end of a character or campaign. Its afterlife is too small, weirdly, but it at least has one. (It's also got a really interesting set of sample nations scattered around the city of Manifest as well.)

You have stumped me with Chanak, and I thought I knew all the obscure D&D settings.

 

[Haplo781]

My same reasoning about why Greyhawk would only be a nostalgia play also applies to Mystara, unfortunately. The core nations of the Known World don't do anything that the Sword Coast does not. (I was a prolific poster on the MML in the 1990s and am one of the few people who has run a campaign in The Five Shires, before anyone comes for me.) I just can't see WotC bothering with it.

Again - Red Steel. Legacies are different enough to merit a book, let alone epic level play via immortals.