WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[Tonguez]

We need a thread here to cover favorite Urban Fantasy books.

and define what even is Urban Fantasy for instance is either the Dresden Files or Garrett PI series Urban fantasy?

 

[Corinnguard]

and define what even is Urban Fantasy for instance is either the Dresden Files or Garrett PI series Urban fantasy?

Urban Fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy that places supernatural elements (magic, psychic abilities, fantasy races, monsters, etc.) into a contemporary urban setting. This sub-genre acts as a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements and unusual characters without the need to create an entire imaginary world. Take Chicago in the Dresden Files series, to anyone who lives or visits there in RL, it actually resembles the Chicago that exists in our world. However, in this Chicago (and presumably the rest of that alternate Earth), magic exists and so do supernatural beings such as the Fey and Vampires.

Urban Fantasy is a mix of the stuff we in RL consider familiar and the strange. Only the latter is considered to be something ordinary by those that live there.

 

[CreamCloud0]

i think the Final Fantasy aesthetic would do well for a new DnD setting, that whole magi-crystal-tech retro-futurism vibe, where you get knights and ninjas alongside summoners and a guy with a gun for an arm, people throw out thunderbolts, shuriken, swordbeams and grenades and it all fits alongside each other, you don't blink an eye when one town has Chocobo drawn carts, another has a monorail and the third has airships.

 

[Tigris]

i think the Final Fantasy aesthetic would do well for a new DnD setting, that whole magi-crystal-tech retro-futurism vibe, where you get knights and ninjas alongside summoners and a guy with a gun for an arm, people throw out thunderbolts, shuriken, swordbeams and grenades and it all fits alongside each other, you don't blink an eye when one town has Chocobo drawn carts, another has a monorail and the third has airships.

I agree. They could do a cooperation with Square Enix and do a crosspromotion.


They release a new Final Fantasy Tactics playing in Ivalice "powered by D&D" snd D&D releases a Ivalice Campaign setting.