D&D 5E What settings would you like to see in 5e?

[robus]

I really enjoyed the breadth of Raymond Feist's Midkemia. Lots of great locations in that world.

And, if I might be so bold, none of the corniness and random ecology of FR...

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I'd also love to see a D&D Cosmere setting, and a Malazan one. Though getting the latter right would be a tough undertaking - how to even balance a T'lan Imass and get the feel right?

 

[Yaztromo]

They will never do it, but I'd love to see Blackmoor + Mystara officially back.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

They will never do it, but I'd love to see Blackmoor + Mystara officially back.

When I see such statements, I find I have two thoughts:

Yeah, I'd love that too.

and

I wonder how much of an impact it has on WotC opinion whether they should consider bringing out an official Blackmoor/Mystara product or not that even the people that profess wanting it clearly believe there isn't enough reason to do it by saying things like "They will never do it"?

 

[AmerginLiath]

I'd like to see Dragonlance, if they can do it without yet another cataclysm or whatever. I'm sure Weis & Hickman are still bound to novelize whatever silliness Wizards dreams up, but I could live without it.

As a Dragonlance fan, it still strikes me that that setting could be done in 5e in a way that brings out other elements in the system, given the description of it (in the DMG and other WotC comments) as Romantic Fantasy built on war and relationships. If I were doing Krynn for 5e (as differentiated from Faerun and the like), I'd work on stressing options to use the Inspiration and Ideals/Bonds/Flaw systems in more important ways, as well as finally building in a mass combat system. One could even draw inspiration from old Birthright and Age of Wyrms systems (since such worlds are unlikely to appear again on their own, but seem to "fit" with Dragonlance more than with something like Forgotten Realms.

(I've seen a lot of discussion over the last few years on which archetypes and such to fit into a Dragonlance game, but I think that stressing these other areas of 5e are where a game in Krynn would differentiate itself on what players/characters are striving to do)

 

[Mercurius]

Malazan would be great. I thought they were working on an RPG for that? If I remember correctly, the world started as a setting for a GURPS campaign.

But with Malazan you'd need an epic tier of play. A Jaghut Tyrant is far more than a 20th level character.

 

[MechaPilot]

With the recent Adventures In Middle Earth 5e book that came out (basically The One Ring converted to the 5e OGL), what additional famous settings would you like to see use the 5e system?

I assume we're talking about settings which haven't already been D&D settings, because most of the D&D settings can already be used. Sure, some things need rules updates (we needed the artificer update for Eberron, and we'll need naval combat rules for Spelljammer), but the actual settings themselves have been detailed a couple different times, with some of them being seen as the definitive versions of those settings.

Assuming that we aren't talking about things which have already been D&D settings, I have to say that I can't think of a single famous fantasy setting that I'd want to see (though I'm certainly not against them existing). I didn't even want the LotR setting (but for those who do want it and like it, I'm glad you now have it).

Setting-wise, what I'd most like to see is an entirely undersea setting, and a setting that is a radical departure from the existing settings. I want "something new" that I can read to get my creative juices flowing when I feel stagnant.

Azeroth. Love me some Warcraft.

Azeroth might be good. I can't say I'm into the lore enough to actually want it, though. I mostly played WoW as a temporary substitute until I got another D&D group going.

 

[Ancalagon]

Erickson's (and Esselmont's) world from Malazon Book of the Fallen series. I think that the Warren magic would be hard to replicate in 5E though.

I believe that it all started as a D&D game, which then was converted to Gurps. Quite the achievement to convert that to a novel.

It will never happen, and I could not run it very well, but I would love to be a player in a setting based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

It *has* happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Discworld

Delicious Friend, you are not alone in this. I had always thought the World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness would be quite apt for running a game in Fallen London.

I would rather have the game in the underzee than Fallen London itself. I think a "rule light" system would work best. Maybe the Fate system as they used for the Dresden Files?

 

[pdzoch]

It *has* happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Discworld

WOW! Thanks for pointing that out. I clearly had blinders on for anything not D&D. I'll have to check out the GURPS system after all. (I have unfairly avoided it for years).

 

[Mercule]

I'd like to see a less silly version of Spell Jammers.

I would consider looking at SpellJammer sans camp. Something like Jim Butcher's new Cinder Spires series would be really intriguing. I could actually see my group using that.

As it is, the existing SpellJammer setting is incomprehensible, to me, as far as the lure.