D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

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As far as I understand you.

I view the 2024 Forgotten Realms setting as serving well the player options of 2024 core. I agree with those who want to see Dragonborn and Goliath more prominently integrated into the Sword Coast region. But this is a tweak of degree, not possibility. I find a significant but isolated community of Dragonborn in the Mere of Dead Men to be a satisfactory solution. I will decide later for a remote mountainous wilderness for the Goliath, near other Giants and a bit away from the dense Orc region. While official elaboration is nice, all the necessities are already in place.

I honestly dont perceive what else needs to happen to be "2024".

That's almost what an iPhone.

What I am saying is that the 2020 Forgotten Realms does not serve near equal role playing ability and gaming experience for the 2024 version of D&D 5th edition..

Everyone is focused on what kind of character I'm allowed to make my character as.

What I am focused on is what pieces of the games lore my character can interact with based on my choices.

Because of how old the Forgotten realm is and because of the favoritism of characters in the game due to their connections to other pieces of media, every origin does not have similar strength of lore.

If there was a Lore ability score some classes species and origins would have a +4 bonus, some a +2, and some a -1.

It's kind of like aspects in Fate or experiences in Daggerheart. Some classes species and origins would be very poor experiences aspects of archetypes in those kinds of games because no setting treats them even close to being equal.

It might just be me but I kind of like settings that are sort of balance somewhat on the lore side. Where choosing a character of a certain archetype is not stronger on the role-playing side of the game then another archetype.

 

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I really don't understand what this thing with entire companies of dragonborn mercenaries is. There aren't enough dragonborn on the planet for every major city to have a company of dragonborn. They might have a couple of dragonborn mercs in town, and maybe one or two in other occupations, but there wouldn't be a whole company of them.

New idea

Dragonborn are the fantasy Krogan.

A whole race of magically inclined super strong warriors in mercenary companies.

Instead of the Genophage, Dragonborn just die of old-fashioned way and their populations never grow