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

[Remathilis]

Fun fact: gnomes were invented in 1566 by the German alchemist and “Renaissance Man” Paracelsus, who needed an earth being for his book on elemental spirits of the four classical elements: undines (water), sylphs (air), gnomes (earth) and salamanders (fire).

I guess genasi fill that role, but I think it would have been neat to see undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamandars fill the "lesser elemental" PC species niche.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I guess genasi fill that role, but I think it would have been neat to see undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamandars fill the "lesser elemental" PC species niche.

That's what I do in my homebrew world. Elves are wood and Dwarves are metal.

 

[Yaarel]

Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders.

These could be different Gnomes lineages.
. Forest illuders: possibly Plant element
. Rock tinkerers: Earth Gnome
. Sylph: Air, grant flight or gaseous form
. Undine: Water
. Salamander: Fire

(The name sylph, sylvanus, seems to have in mind wind blowing thru forest leaves. The Forest Gnome lineage could be the Sylph, if also gaining flight or gaseous form.)

Alternatively, make Sprite a creature type that covers the many kinds of wee folk, including Small/Tiny Gnome. Somewhat the opposite-size Giants.

These animistic beings can populate the Border Ethereal, being the virtual bodies made out of the immaterial forces in the Material Plane.

 

[Yaarel]

The wee folk are surprisingly prominent in the Greyhawk setting. The 1e and 2e Monsters listed many different kinds of wee folk. Sprite itself was a creature, albeit it should be a creature type. In folkbelief, sprites include many species of wee folk.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I guess now gnomes earned a piece of popularity thanks Critical Role. I feel curiosity with the idea about gnomes creating a magitek version of Robotix to fight against kaijus style Inhumanoids.

Today the mythology of "Changeling: the Dreaming" and "Changeling: the lost" are a too strong influence if we wanted to add feys to our homemade worlds.

Halflings could be riders of some flying monster mount, even some no-evil ogre, maybe a gigantopithecus.

(Off-topic: Now I was thinking about a cancelled line of vehicles toys, Extranimals by Majorette), practically cars and vehicles with an animal head, like cyborg hybrids. How would be to mi Hasbro M.A.S.K and Majorette's Extranimals?).

 

[TheSword]

Have any of the newly released settings actually stuck?… Ravnica, Theros, Strixhaven etc. or did they sell for a few months and get Forgotten completely.

For me, there’s no point releasing something flash in the pan. It feels like a setting designed to be specific to 5.5 is condemning itself to not be designed for whatever comes after.

Any setting has to stand on its own merits and themes or fade to obscurity. My personal feeling is that 5es settings have not achieved critical mass to make them more than a footnote.

 

[Zardnaar]

Have any of the newly released settings actually stuck?… Ravnica, Theros, Strixhaven etc. or did they sell for a few months and get Forgotten completely.

For me, there’s no point releasing something flash in the pan. It feels like a setting designed to be specific to 5.5 is condemning itself to not be designed for whatever comes after.

Any setting has to stand on its own merits and themes or fade to obscurity. My personal feeling is that 5es settings have not achieved critical mass to make them more than a footnote.

I suspect flash in the pan.

No one cares its seems and they didnt stick.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

We should see the number of sourcebooks by 3PPs in DMGuild.

Maybe a new setting could be a spin-off of Ravnica. Let's remember there is a future event for Magic: the Gathering "Reality Facture" and this could cause a "reboot" of the M:tG multiverse.

Eberron is popular en DMGuild, and Dragonlance no bad. Spelljammer is more popular than Planescape. Greyhawk hasn't been unlocked yet, according Grok. I guess the settings need a minimal fandom community.

FR is the superstar, and even Ravenloft is a little fish next to this. Why would WotC publish a sourcebook for D&D focused into the lore of Exandria, for example, when you can read it freely in the M:tG fandom wiki?