D&D 5E Which Non-Classic/Magic Settings Would You like to see WotC Publish?

[Marc_C]

As others have said an Urban Arcana modern setting would be very cool.

 

[jmartkdr2]

I think He-Man is unlikely, only because Mattel owns that brand.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Hasbro would be glad with an Urban Arcana setting because it is the easiest option to be adapted into action-live productions, and also to can publish crossovers with other franchises, but in the tabletop there is a serious conflict between gameplay/power balance and fidelity realism. If firearms are too powerful the classic classes would be forgotten and everybody would want to be gunmen or one-man-army as Rambo. The calculation of XPs rewards/challenge rating had to be totally different, because with the right weapon a elephant, dinosaur or megafaun specimen could be killed with one shot. In the first movie "Alien the eight passenger" only one xenomorph was enough to kill almost all Nostromo crew, but in the sequel, James Cameron's Aliens dozens, maybe hundreds of them, could be killed from other room thanks two turrets. Have you played any battle royal videogame? let's imagine the enemy is using only an axe and a shield. After other enemy with the same stats but this time with a gun. Now it's not so easy. The next is the enemy as sniper from the top of a tree or a window. Then menace is different, practically the equivalent to survive a trap. But It can become worse if the enemy can use an exo-suit (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare), a powered armor (Fallout or Anthem) or a mecha (Titanfall or the B.R.U.T.E. from Fortnite). This enemy in a d20 game is more powerful than adding a monster template. Do you understand? Haven't you thought about WotC publishing any famous videogame franchise? not only Blizzard's Diablo or Warcraft, but also sci-fi shooters as Fortnite: Save the World or Blizzard's Overwatch.

He-Man and the Master of the Universe, as the superheroes, aren't easy to be adapted to games, because these need a right balance between power and weakness, success and weakness. If Hasbro wants a planetary romance, better to start from zero with their own new IP.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Darwin’s World. It shone as a D20 setting, a 5e update from WotC would be wild.

 

[Undrave]

As others have said an Urban Arcana modern setting would be very cool.

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.

 

[Aldarc]

I think He-Man is unlikely, only because Mattel owns that brand.

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.

 

[Marc_C]

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.

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.

 

[Undrave]

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.

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.

 

[delericho]

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.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

Kids on Brooms and other not-Hogwarts games are already a thing.

For non-modern YA fantasy, see Beyond the Wall, which is wonderful.

But a modern-ish take on it would be a great idea for a setting.