D&D 5E (2014) Which Classic Settings do you think WotC will publish?

[Paul Farquhar]

Have you looked at CW ratings...? They have a niche, but it it niche AF.

Agree, it's hard not to think that CW shows could do a lot better if they cast based on acting talent.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Why must every setting, classic and new, include every possible D&D trope from every edition?

They don't. There are no dragonborn in Theros.

There's just something...tawdry..about incorporating dragonborn into Greyhawk.

Greyhawk, unlike Theros, is a core rules setting. And dragonborn are core rules.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Dragonlance is one of the favorites, if it is not in this "phase" will have to be the next. It is the best option to sell merchandising products. Here the idea of a reboot is very risky, because there are dozens of novels that fandom wouldn't like to be decanoniced. An option would be "this is an alternate timeline", but this concept could ater the cosmology of ther rest of D&D multiverse.

The 3.5 Ed origin of the dragonborns was ordinary humans and humanoids chose by Bahamut to be his champions, and after a ritual and a "crysalid" phase transformed in dragonborns.

Mmmm, then maybe the origin of the kobolds is a goblinoid race chose to be Tiamat minions.

We could say FR ate almost all the D&D multiverse. This doesn't matter too much. The races and factions from Spelljamers could explore the Astral Plane.

Mystara is practically "shut up in the chest of the oblivion" ( = totally forgotten) but it can offers two or three things: A new partnership with Capcom for an arcade videogame. Savage Coast/Red Steel (pirates and mutants, for the audience who love Jack Sparrow and the Caribean Pirates) and Hollow World (ancient cultures, dinosaurs and prehistoric faun). Possible in a far future, but not soon.

Kara-Tur and al-Qadim are possible, but today they need a lot of work to be politically correct, and this is not fandom's fault but by other collectives.

Hasbro should negotiate with Gygax's heirs about the rights for Gord the rogue novels and Dangerous Journeys, because if the D&D action-live movie is a blockbuster, then others will try to buy the rights for an adaptation of the franchises by the same author. WotC could publish a sourcebook about the word of Mysta with an agnostic system, only background, and allowing this being used for webnovels.

Other suggestion is to allow "isekai" fiction, for example a secondary character of "Jem and the Holograms" is sent to Dragonlance. Really she is not in the original Krynn, but a "clone demiplane", something like the "dream land" in the novel "Tanis: the shadow years".

Ghostwalk could return as a softer spin-off of Ravenloft, and new plane for Magic: the Gathering.

Councyl of Wyrms could be rebooted as Chris Perkin's Iomandra (homebred setting), but the 5th Ed is not ready yet for dragon PCs. I advice await until almost all the dragons from previous editions to be updated. Dragons are perfect to be sold as toys for kaiju-fan children.

 

[Mercurius]

They don't. There are no dragonborn in Theros.

Greyhawk, unlike Theros, is a core rules setting. And dragonborn are core rules.

Is that an official term or title? And if so, how is it determined that Greyhawk is a "core rules setting?" It hasn't even been covered yet except in Saltmarsh and a few mentions throughout various books.

I mean, does this mean that dragonborn and tieflings will be in Dark Sun? Or is that not a "core rules setting?"

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Is that an official term or title? And if so, how is it determined that Greyhawk is a "core rules setting?" It hasn't even been covered yet except in Saltmarsh and a few mentions throughout various books.

Core rules means "doesn't have setting-specific rules". Greyhawk has always used core rules. Gygax never excluded any races, for example.

Now, it would be possible to re-invent Greyhawk as a non-core rules setting. There is clearly a demand for a gritty low magic setting for 5e, and they could make Greyhawk that. But that would be a change from what Greyhawk was in the past, not a continuation. Anyway, GoS indicates WotC still consider Greyhawk core rules.

I mean, does this mean that dragonborn and tieflings will be in Dark Sun? Or is that not a "core rules setting?"

Dark Sun is not a core rules setting, never has been.

 

[Rikka66]

I mean, does this mean that dragonborn and tieflings will be in Dark Sun?

About that.....

 

[Parmandur]

Of all time? That's a bold claim, do you have any evidence to back it up?

Not top tier, but it is on the list, behind Redwall and ahead of Foundation.

List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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[Mind of tempest]

4e that and few seemed to create a big fuss about it,

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not top tier, but it is on the list, behind Redwall and ahead of Foundation.

List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Somewhere about 67th. I think that's what they call "also ran". On that basis WotC would be well advised to create a Paddington Bear campaign setting!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Greyhawk was the default setting for the 3rd Ed. Dragonborn and tielflings were in the 4th Ed Dark Sun, with some little retcon.

Dragonborns aren't native in Theros, but not impossible. I don't mind the canon too much. If I want I do a crossover Theros/Odissey of the Dragonlords/Arkadia/Arcanis, or a crossover Ravenloft/Kaidan/Obsidian Apocalypse/Shadow over Varthak (and other titles I can't remember).

Dark Sun is one of the favorite lines, but it needs a lot of work, at least for the design of the clothing, one of the main marks of identity. WotC wants the return, but soon it is not possible. We have to await.

Nentir Vale can comes back as a transitional setting, this means a word that can be visited by characters from the rest of multiverse, and also to send explorers to other worlds. Then if a dragonborn appears in Theros, maybe this is from Nentir Vale. It was designed to be a sandbox, enough flexible to can add lots of new things later, for example classes and PC races. It a goIt od option for mobile videogames.

Greyhawk needs the right videogame to be promoted.


Birthright will have to await a lot of time. Thanks "Games of Thrones" there is a potential interested public, but it would really good fiction.