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

[Reynard]

Yes, but there hasn't been any barrier to the Setting expressed outside that mechanical context.

There is still friction with each edition change, since some number of edition assumptions have been altered. Stuff as simple as the presence of new races or the lack of inclusion of others.

 

[Charlaquin]

That is their out planes setting?

Yeah, I think it’s a bit like 5e’s multiverse. A broad meta-setting that connects different individual worlds and can be used to travel between them.

 

[Scribe]

Does adding dragon born or changing orc lore require us to abandon all of the Forgotten Realms lore?

Kind of, yeah.

People dont want Gothic, they want Ravenloft? Then dont change Ravenloft.

The more the settings are bent towards the modern additions, the less those settings remain accurate to what people wanted in the first place, not that most of the new player base (supposedly) is even old enough to know what those old settings were about.

I mean people cannot even wrap their heads around the Dragonlance Pantheon and its behavior, its just outside of the context new players even understand.

So yeah, if Wizards is going to keep going back to the well of these old settings? Fine, but dont change them.

Its not like they could not also make NEW settings and tell NEW stories and let those things stand on their own without the cheap nostalgia pull.

Or maybe they cannot, I dont know.

 

[Reynard]

Its not like they could not also make NEW settings and tell NEW stories and let those things stand on their own without the cheap nostalgia pull.

Or maybe they cannot, I dont know.

At the moment, anyway, Wizards seem allergic to anything New at all.

 

[Reynard]

...the radiant citadel flares in your general direction...

You aren't the first to mention Radiant Citadel.

I don't own the book, so much of this is based on impressions. But as I understand it, that is not "a setting" in the Forgotten Realm or Eberron sense of a setting. it is a city, or nexus point, or soemthing, and within it are a bunch of very lightly sketched out other settings (Prime worlds, i think). Is that accurate?

And in either case I would ask -- what is 5e-y about Radiant Citadel? What 5E systems and assumptions does it lean into that makes it a 5E setting, other than having been produced at that time?

 

[Minigiant]

There should be a setting where dragonborn, tieflings, and goliaths are major species in the settings history because they are official species in the players handbook

There should be an official setting where all 12 of the official classes are written into the lore of the world as aspects of the setting.

There should be a setting where the DM can loopk in the book and tell the players where the Goliath psy warriors come from.

 

[bedir than]

At the moment, anyway, Wizards seem allergic to anything New at all.

Lorwyn comes out in like 3 weeks?

 

[Reynard]

Lorwyn comes out in like 3 weeks?

This is a MtG setting, right?

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t know what this means…

Thwt 4E Eberron and 5E Ebwerron (both mechanical expressions) are no more nor less "Eberron" than the "Everything in 3.5 is in Eberron" brief.

I’d say Nentir Vale is another. And it’s another beloved setting, at least by fans of the system it was made for.

Nentir Vale is a vive, but I'm not sure how much of it is setting specific: Mercer was basically running it in Pathfinder for years.

 

[Parmandur]

There is still friction with each edition change, since some number of edition assumptions have been altered. Stuff as simple as the presence of new races or the lack of inclusion of others.

Is there, though? Baker hasn't seemed to feel that way.