WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[SlyFlourish]

Like...why isnt Wizards doing something like this? When was the last time Wizards even tried? MtG makes settings all the time, 3PP does it all the time.

Why do people just accept Wizards coasting on past glory when it comes to D&D?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dndshorts/ryoko-and-helianas-guide-to-mythozoology

Why do we need them to?

 

[ZeshinX]

2e glut was created by a lot of things at the same time, like every setting getting lots of books in the same time, a warehouse of novels, bad directions from the top. Some of these still exists in Hasbro, but many don't. A new setting every third year with no expansions isn't going to be a problem.

Oh definitely, it was a lot more than just too many settings....but, the biggest lesson was that it factionalized their consumers. Even here, now, you can see it. I, like many, detest crossing the streams (the MtG settings in D&D, etc)....but others love it. So the same factionalization happens. Granted, not to the ludicrous degree it did in 2e and WotC seems to be finding a better balance, but you still have that factionalization (just not to the ruinous degree as happened before).

 

[Reynard]

Why do we need them to?

In general I don't think they do -- but it would be nice if they did. One thing I have found specifically about many 5E era Kickstarters is we often don't know much about who is making the thing, and a lot of them feel very fly by night or at least more hoping for a windfall than loving D&D. As a freelancer, I have worked on multiple 5E Kickstarters where the people selling the thing weren't actually very knowledgable of 5E and needed help fixing their mechanics.

One thing that WotC has is credibility in the design sense. As you have mentioned, of course lots of 3PP folks have also worked for WotC, some extensively.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm in total agreement. One grand kitchen sink for all of D&D, everything working together in a unified whole.

But as Whizbang said, probably too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

To a degree, that’s what the D&D multiverse is for. It might be too late to put all the eggs back into one basket, but they can at least put all the little baskets in one really big basket!

[We clearly need a setting for ridiculous metaphors.]

 

[ZeshinX]

[We clearly need a setting for ridiculous metaphors.]

Metaphoria: Bottles & Baskets

 

[Scribe]

Why do we need them to?

My man, I do not understand your difficulty in understanding.

1. Other companies are providing stuff. GREAT.
2. Other products are (for my dollar) better than anything Wizards is doing anyway. GREAT.

Those 2 truths do not preclude the D&D branch of Wizards from looking over the cubicle wall, looking out at what other companies are doing better, and saying 'you know what, we are D&D, why are we sitting back and getting clowned on in near every aspect of the business other than...making money off the Brand Name.'

I, do not need Wizards to do anything. Nobody 'needs' them to do anything.

Just as I clicked on that Ryoko's KS and said 'damn! Thats a lot of stuff going on!' for a system I do not even care to look at anymore, I am STILL enticed because one, I love the SETTING concept, the art, the style, and the subject matter, and 2, it looks damn good!

So, since I want to see things that spark that 'wow!' why isnt Wizards doing it?

Thats it. I want Wizards to attempt to impress me.

 

[mamba]

Nonsense. Dragonlance is clearly a horror setting based on the most casual understanding of the genre, much like how Ravnica is urban fantasy because it has urban and fantasy elements.

well, I disagree, not really seeing any horror in it that goes beyond you average D&D setting

 

[mamba]

Further proof you only need one setting then. Forgotten Realms could handle horror, pulp, noir, melodrama, survival, sword and sorcery, planetary romances and comedy. We can get rid of the rest.

‘we’ basically have gotten rid of the rest, solitary releases for other settings notwithstanding

 

[mamba]

Why do people just accept Wizards coasting on past glory when it comes to D&D?

for me the answer is simple, because I do not care whether the setting I use is from WotC or not, and it more often than not isn’t

 

[Remathilis]

well, I disagree, not really seeing any horror in it that goes beyond you average D&D setting

Your sarcasm font is broken then.