What if the Urban Arcana wasn't like, normal Earth, but one of the D&D setting thrown like 1500-2000 years into the future? Mystara with cars and computers for exemple.As others have said an Urban Arcana modern setting would be very cool.
Also, a Masters of the Universe RPG was announced last year for Cortex Prime. It looks like a pretty good fit, since it's meant to be a system where He-Man can fight alongside characters the like of Orko, Man-E-Faces, and Mek-a-Nek.I think He-Man is unlikely, only because Mattel owns that brand.
Well that wouldn't be Urban Arcana. Supernatural, Buffy are urban arcana. The fact that it is the real Earth is very important. Players can relate to every day things and places they know. For example my UA campaigns are always locate in our home town of Montreal.What if the Urban Arcana wasn't like, normal Earth, but one of the D&D setting thrown like 1500-2000 years into the future? Mystara with cars and computers for exemple.
I think both could be interesting. I don't think there's a lot of 'Modern day version of Fantasy settings' out there that aren't just Earth.Well that wouldn't be Urban Arcana. Supernatural, Buffy are urban arcana. The fact that it is the real Earth is very important. Players can relate to every day things and places they know. For example my UA campaigns are always locate in our home town of Montreal.
Mystara 2,021 would be Sci-Fantasy.
Kids on Brooms and other not-Hogwarts games are already a thing.The #1 thing I'd like to see is something completely new. I'm almost completely certain it will never happen, but it's something I'd like to see.
The other thing that I would find intriguing are a young adult "modern Appendix N" setting - take things like Harry Potter, Eragon, Pokemon, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games/Maze Runner, file off the serial numbers very thoroughly, mash them up, and see what you've got. (The PCs would be trainee wizards, beast trainers, dragon riders, and scions of divine bloodlines, all trapped in an horrible dystopia.) Of course, the big problem with it would be the horror that is IP rights - Rowling doesn't have a monopoly on "magical Eton", but I can readily understand people not wanting to test that.![]()
Both were Hanna Barbera, which made the most Hanna Barbaric cartoons in the 80s. So it's AT&T/WB/Cartoon Network.Who is the owner of Thundar the Barbarian? I think "Pirates of the Dark Waters" would be easier to be adapted into a D&D by setting, or maybe some partnership deal.
"I need that guy's leg."Both were Hanna Barbera, which made the most Hanna Barbaric cartoons in the 80s. So it's AT&T/WB/Cartoon Network.
Personally, I would give my left arm for a "Pirates of Dark Water" setting. Well, not MY left arm. But somebody's left arm. And a right leg too, if necessary, because PoDW was the most D&D cartoon of the 80s.
Even more than the actual D&D cartoon.
but which of the classic settings even have a place in the world today beyond nostalgia?None. Hear me out.
WotC owns a lot of classic settings that no one else can publish.
Anyone can make a brand-new setting, and there are loads of wonderful ones out there.
If WotC publishes a brand-new setting, the classic settings continue to be neglected.
Some creative works are dead ends or products of their time and are unlikely to see further life. There is no moral imperative for WotC to give us a Jakandor 5E. The world is not diminished by there not being a Thunder Rift 5E. There are arguments against even trying with Maztica, Al-Qadim and Kara Tur and, instead, channeling the impulse to do something with Meso-America, the Middle East and Asia into a new and better thing.None. Hear me out.
WotC owns a lot of classic settings that no one else can publish.
Anyone can make a brand-new setting, and there are loads of wonderful ones out there.
If WotC publishes a brand-new setting, the classic settings continue to be neglected.
but which of the classic settings even have a place in the world today beyond nostalgia?
name those styles of play and settings.What does this even mean? I think some of the classic settings do introduce styles of play that aren't really reflected well in the currently-released 5E settings, if that's what you mean.