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

[eclair~]

The release of the Eberron book highlights the fact that WotC should make a 2024 5e-focused setting.

Because they have no compunctions about destroying existing lore for the sake of giving everything the most generic and insert-into-any-setting background.

 

[Corinnguard]

The majority of humanoids in my setting (to include humans, dwarves, elves, etc) all originated with one race that the Ancients modified their DNA to be their servants.

If WoTC intends to bring back the Dark Sun setting for 5e, I hope they mention how the Halflings of the Blue Age used the magic of the Pristine Tower and the Dark Lens to become the humanoid species of Athas' Green Age.

 

[Hussar]

@Minigiant

In Faerun, which area in the Sword Coast do you prefer the Dragonborn to be.

Not @Minigiant, but, I'd take a stab at that. Major population centers should at least have one Dragonborn "community" of some sort. It could be an enclave, it could be a mercenary group, it could be something else. But, something. Anything. Heck, make it an embassy of Tylamanther, if you like. Saltmarsh did that with a trade enclave from Iuz run by a Tiefling. Perfect way to inject setting lore into an existing setting.

I don't think there should be only one area in the Sword Coast. After all, the whole "diaspora" thing is established, so, let's actually show the impact of the diaspora. There's no reason not to have a "Little Dragontown" in Waterdeep. Beregost could have a small mercenary guild that's been hired to protect the town. That sort of thing. Heck, why have regular human thugs in Phandelver? Why not a roving mercenary band as the Redbrands in Phandelver? They certainly don't have to be the good guys.