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

[Hussar]

Except someone literally just contradicted that statement earlier. So I don’t know what else to say to you about the issue you’re having.

Again, if you think one is a lot, I think that perhaps we're having a miscommunication. A single dragonborn in an entire module of dozens and dozens of NPC's is hardly a lot, is it?

 

[Distracted DM]

Here is an interesting question I had not thought of: does either LevelUp or ToV have a bespoke setting mae for those 5E games? I know Kobold has their Midgard setting, but I believe that setting was originally created for Pathfinder or 3.5 (I think).

Level Up sort of does use its setting(s) which are expressed through available character options. But they weren't created for 5e afaik, since iirc they were made for earlier editions.

Their Voidrunners Codex might count though?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I could possibly see Nerath as a "from the ashes" type setting, but you'd have to walk a fine line to avoid it being grimdark. I still wish we had gotten a consolidated book before 4e burnt out.

It seems that wouldn't be that hard to avoid grimdark, because the setting just doesn't describe any large despotic empires oppressing the formerly free, unified people. But it does describe points of lights, so clearly in some areas, good people do good deeds, stand for each other and secured a decent home. But they are isolated, and travel between them is treacherous, monsters roam the world. If someone was to unite the evil forces, they could probably swallow those points of lights - but equally possible, if the points of lights can establish connections and drive back those monsters, they could exand and make the world a better place.