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

[doctorbadwolf]

The most recent edition change was last year, which is why I say it wasn’t much different.

No, it was not.

And regardless of some peoples silly insistence on calling it one, it does not matter to the point in any way.

5e does not have a setting that is made for it. If it gets one, the comparison that needs to be made is to older editions, not the same edition at its launch.

Eberron is built with 3.5 assumptions. Nentir Vale is 4e, inserarably.
5e should have a setting made with its assumptions and norms, where the current phb is the basis for the primary species of the main part of the setting and 5e supplements fill in the rest. Where artificers exist but arent common, where paladins are governed by oaths and thus orders might have members worshipping different deities, etc, etc.

Arguing about whether the 2024 phb is a new edition or not is just a pointless distraction from that.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Maybe a future setting could start like a simple adventure. Ravenloft started like this before to become a setting. We have got the Radiant Citadel and Witchlight.

Maybe the Vodoni empire, a faction from Spelljammer, discovered a planar gate toward other primal material plane. They discovered a new wildspace but this was being explored and conquered by a rogue gith faction (a thoon cult, for example). In the worlds of this wildspace there are remains of Athasian civilitation.

 

[Corinnguard]

There is no customer base definition. The base is way to fractured on what it thinks and perceives for there to be any single definition put forth by it. We can't even get 5 people here on the site to agree on definitions. That leaves only WotC to set a definition.

If they can set one at all. There have been several instances where WoTC had done something really stupid and was completely caught off guard when the DM/Players really took an active dislike of what they had done. Ex. The OGL 1.0 debacle.