WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[LuisCarlos17f]

A right worldbuilding needs a lot of work but today players don't need to spend their money when they can read the fandom wikis about videogames, comics or novels.

If WotC publishes a new setting, this will be not only for the TTRPG but mainly other type of products.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Use of contemporary technology (such as automotive vehicles or communications)

Ravnica and Eberron have these.

and everyday community and social institutions (such as libraries, schools/universities, or markets)

Pretty much every D&D setting has these.

Where are the Dresden files set? Chicago? A city in a far off land that I am never likely to visit and know very little about. Baldur's Gate is more familiar to me than Chicago. There really isn't any difference between a fictional location and a real world location that you only encounter through fiction.

 

[Corinnguard]

Urban Fantasy settings like other fictional settings make often use of the trope, Like Reality Unless Noted. If the author mentions something we're familiar with such as a door or a car, we convince ourselves that they look and function much the same as the ones, we're familiar with in RL. But as soon as the author mentions that the car can fly or runs on something other than gas or electricity, we know that the world in that setting isn't our own. It either merely looks like our own or it comes close to it to initially fool us into thinking that it is.