WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This isn’t cozy isekai dystopian litrpg enough for me.

An isekai/portal fantasy sourcebook is definitely worth doing, although that's probably just something that could be used with any setting.

A litrpg setting is probably how many groups run their games as-is.

 

[Zaukrie]

I've been running a Radiant Citadel campaign for about a year (alternating with my Shadowdark campaign).

The new settings have been a big part of the appeal for everyone and explicitly why several people joined the campaign. Once I let our extended friend group know the campaign was finally headed to San Citlan, we had our biggest-ever live 5E game.

You using the adventures in the book, or homebrew? Dang, that's kind of off topic....

 

[nyvinter]

I would argue that most D&D cities, from Baldur’s Gate to Sharn to Sigil to the Rock of Brall, are far more contemporary than they are medieval.

I'd even argue that thanks to Wheel of Time becoming so popular a lot of fantasy made afterwards have a more renaissance or early age of enlightenment tone than medieval. And this includes the sponge that is D&D.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

At what point are we going to talk about GAMMA WORLD? I'd be perfectly happy with a 5E version.

 

[Reynard]

Had no idea.

And you’re being rude.

I linked the definition -- and you quoted that post where I linked it. "Had no idea" feels a little bit disingenuous since we know you at least acknowledged the definition, but chose to ignore it in order to continue an argument only you were having. Even after I defined it for you multiple times, you wanted to argue with the definition. How is that not rude?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You using the adventures in the book, or homebrew? Dang, that's kind of off topic....

I created a homebrew adventure set on the citadel to actually have an adventure set on the citadel and to get the player characters into the Shieldbearers. After that, it's been each of the adventures in the book, plus a holiday sidetrek to one of the One Shot Wonders holiday adventures.

 

[Reynard]

They definitely fit, as do the works of Neil G., but I won't be suggesting people read those any more.

It is fine if you don't pay for them.

 

[Reynard]

are you more excited for a new D&D setting than for another new product?

I don't care for campaign length adventures or splatbooks, so there isn't much else WotC could put out besides a setting that WOULD excite me. I suppose a really cool focused monster book like Fizban's (maybe for the fae, or perhaps demons and devils) might get me going. But remember this thread is in direct response to a discussion by Slyflourish about settings from WotC.

 

[Artamo]

I linked the definition -- and you quoted that post where I linked it. "Had no idea" feels a little bit disingenuous since we know you at least acknowledged the definition, but chose to ignore it in order to continue an argument only you were having. Even after I defined it for you multiple times, you wanted to argue with the definition. How is that not rude?

You’re absolutely right, my approach was argumentative and I took offense at the dismissal of my initial question when you said this:

“I find it very strange that folks don't know what urban fantasy is in 2026.”

To me, that felt very impersonal and condescending, and primed me for an argument. I’ll let it go.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'd even argue that thanks to Wheel of Time becoming so popular a lot of fantasy made afterwards have a more renaissance or early age of enlightenment tone than medieval. And this includes the sponge that is D&D.

I feel like D&D was probably sliding in that direction beforehand anyway -- a lot of fantasy of the 1980s, especially the humorous stuff like MYTH, Inc. was definitely post-medieval in its details -- but you're probably right that Wheel of Time accelerated that.

I don't think most D&D players have really wanted full-on medieval squalor. We wouldn't have gotten all of those Mordenkainen's "Let's Not Sleep in a Stable Tonight" spells if the original TSR crew hadn't felt that way.