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

[Minigiant]

And it's already that way. There's plenty of lore regarding Dragonborn in Tymanther. There does not need to be equality of lore choice for every country, city, town and village in the entirety of the Realms. If you choose to make yourself a stranger in a strange land, you are not going to have as much local lore for your race as the locals do.

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It's not enough to match 2024 5th edition's vibe

2024 5th edition's vibe for settings is either a Mos Eisley Cantina mix of species, classes, and backgrounds or a videogamey style faction fractionism where your choice of class, species, and backgrounds.

Either you run into Dragonborns all the time OR there is a lore reason why you don't run into Dragonborn here but do there.

 

[Maxperson]

It's not enough to match 2024 5th edition's vibe

2024 5th edition's vibe for settings is either a Mos Eisley Cantina mix of species, classes, and backgrounds or a videogamey style faction fractionism where your choice of class, species, and backgrounds.

Says who?

 

[Minigiant]

Says who?

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All the races are upfront and in your face.

It's not "Xs live in the setting but you only interact with humans, dwarves, and elves" like 2014.

 

[Corinnguard]

Either you run into Dragonborns all the time OR there is a lore reason why you don't run into Dragonborn here but do there.

I am more likely to expect the latter than the former. If your character is familiar with a particular city or town, they're going to have a good idea of what species are populating it. Especially when the DM asks them for a History check to see how well they know who lives there. If your character is new to a particular city or town, they're not going to know until they are there and have spent some time in it. They'll have to go by word of mouth from those who live there or see for themselves.

Not every town or city is going to have every species living in it.

 

[TiQuinn]

But it is very different. 5e is massively different from 4e or 3e.

And the most we have gotten is Infinite Staircase and Radiant Citadel, both of which are more mini-sigil than real setting.

It’s also a retroactive perspective. There’s nothing to be done about the change from 3e to 4e to 5e. It’s relitigating the past. Also, 3e got Eberron. 4e had Nentir Vale baked into the core books. But is 5.5 that dramatically different from 5e? I don’t think so. I think it’s the smallest shift in rules since the 1e to 2e edition change. Will a prospective 6e be that radically different? I would argue that if D&D continues to be as successful as it has over the past decade, then no, it won’t be.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

there is a lore reason why you don't run into Dragonborn here but do there.

There is a law reason. Law of statistics - random distribution.

 

[Minigiant]

I am more likely to expect the latter than the former. If your character is familiar with a particular city or town, they're going to have a good idea of what species are populating it. Especially when the DM asks them for a History check to see how well they know who lives there. If your character is new to a particular city or town, they're not going to know until they are there and have spent some time in it. They'll have to go by word of mouth from those who live there or see for themselves.

Not every town or city is going to have every species living in it.

But that's the point

In a 5.5E Specific Setting, the assumption would be that every species is in every large town or city UNLESS there is a lore reason why not.

That's the vibe of 5.5e.

Everything Basic Rules is allowed and present unless stated it's not.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But that's the point

In a 5.5E Specific Setting, the assumption would be that every species is in every large town or city UNLESS there is a lore reason why not.

That's the vibe of 5.5e.

Everything Basic Rules is allowed and present unless stated it's not.

What nonsense. You should learn something about statistics and population distribution before making pronouncements.

 

[Corinnguard]

In a 5.5E Specific Setting, the assumption would be that every species is in every large town or city UNLESS there is a lore reason why not

Is this an out-of-character assumption or an in-character assumption? If you are playing as your character, do you really know if every species is in every large town or city? You don't unless your character is familiar with that large town or city. This also goes for lore. How well does your character know the history of the town or city they're familiar with? It's not going to be 100% in either case.

More important, how does knowing how many Dragonborn are in a large city or town further whatever adventure plot your party is dealing with? It might if the party is looking for a particularly important Dragonborn NPC. However, the DM is going to make you work for it.