D&D (2024) Where to next, WotC?

[Hussar]

I just hope that the new setting, be it a remake or original is SMALL. I don’t want another “world”. I want a big island, maybe about 500 miles in diameter that is extensively detailed.

If the next setting is yet another high altitude overview, I’m not interested.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I just hope that the new setting, be it a remake or original is SMALL. I don’t want another “world”. I want a big island, maybe about 500 miles in diameter that is extensively detailed.

If the next setting is yet another high altitude overview, I’m not interested.

I think they really seem to be emphasisizing a setting of large scale.

 

[Hussar]

I think they really seem to be emphasisizing a setting of large scale.

That’s almost always the case. It’s why I generally don’t care for canned settings. Not my bag.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

If (general) you are a fan of Dark Sun... you don't want WotC to make a 5E24 update to Dark Sun. You are going to hate it.

Make your own update. You have your old Dark Sun materials presumably... use all of that to make the setting workable for yourself with 5E24 (or 5E14 if you haven't moved.)

That is, of course, unless you also liked Spelljammer and were happy with WotC's 5E update, liked Planescape and were happy with WotC's 5E update, liked Dragonlance and were happy with WotC's 5E update, and like Ravenloft and were happy with WotC's 5E update. If (general) you liked any or all of those updated settings, then maybe you will luck out and like what WotC will do with Dark Sun. The rest of you? Don't waste your time getting your hopes up.

I know you added that (general) to the you, but I think I probably represent some demographic (how large, who knows).

I would LOVE to see Dark Sun. I enjoyed Dark Sun back when it first came out, and I enjoyed playing it in 4e, too. And I'd like to play a new version (not to mention sell it).

I do not care one single whit if it is exactly perfectly like the original or not.

Sure, I'd prefer if it was a less-flawed product than Spelljammer was (there's a lot of reasons why Spelljammer was flawed - I don't care about the lore-changes, myself) but I don't mind if they change it drastically. I'd still like them to do it.

 

[Parmandur]

I just hope that the new setting, be it a remake or original is SMALL. I don’t want another “world”. I want a big island, maybe about 500 miles in diameter that is extensively detailed.

If the next setting is yet another high altitude overview, I’m not interested.

I mean, they dp that, in the Campaign books.

nd the FR DM book seems to ne, at least in part, a series of 5 micro Settings based around a hub each.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I just hope that the new setting, be it a remake or original is SMALL. I don’t want another “world”. I want a big island, maybe about 500 miles in diameter that is extensively detailed.

If the next setting is yet another high altitude overview, I’m not interested.

I'm 100% with you on that. I almost wrote about it in the "What would you do if you got the worldbuilder job"-thread. I think that a fully detailed smaller setting is what we're currently lacking. I'd rather have a really well fleshed out Island, as you say, than another big but sparsely-detailed whole planet.

 

[Hussar]

I'm 100% with you on that. I almost wrote about it in the "What would you do if you got the worldbuilder job"-thread. I think that a fully detailed smaller setting is what we're currently lacking. I'd rather have a really well fleshed out Island, as you say, than another big but sparsely-detailed whole planet.

I mean, seriously, look at the real world. Small (ish) regions can have incredibly rich history and lore. It's okay if there are "foreign invaders" from outside the map, but, at least at the outset, I want a really, really detailed small area. Sort of like a Ptolus setting for a single region. I'm so sick and tired of looking at these high altitude setting guides which basically do none of the actual work for you but instead dump all the scut work onto the DM. Who is the blacksmith in Town X? What priesthoods are active in Town Y? THat sort of thing.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I mean, seriously, look at the real world. Small (ish) regions can have incredibly rich history and lore. It's okay if there are "foreign invaders" from outside the map, but, at least at the outset, I want a really, really detailed small area. Sort of like a Ptolus setting for a single region. I'm so sick and tired of looking at these high altitude setting guides which basically do none of the actual work for you but instead dump all the scut work onto the DM. Who is the blacksmith in Town X? What priesthoods are active in Town Y? THat sort of thing.

Yeah, and for someone who likes a lot of empty space for them to fill-in themselves, WotC could also, on the other side, bring back a points-of-light setting (whether 4e's Nerath, or something else).

 

[SlyFlourish]

I argue we're actually dealing with a small-data problem. Some stuff might be obvious and some might be a wild-ass guess. Some folks here will be right just by being lucky.

But the design team is small. They put out few products. And the environment is always changing.

I wouldn't bet money on just about anything.

I think respondents here are going to pick out the things they want and say that WOTC is going to (or should) do those things because its probably just as likely as anything else.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, and for someone who likes a lot of empty space for them to fill-in themselves, WotC could also, on the other side, bring back a points-of-light setting (whether 4e's Nerath, or something else).

I think WotC is more focused on settings they can use in other mediums.