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

[Minigiant]

The base is very fractured. Even those who play 5.5e don't all agree on a single feel for it. You can't even get anywhere close to every 5.5e player on this site to agree with you about the vibe(subjective feel) of the game or if it needs a dedicated setting, let alone give a single unified definition of what the game is or setting would be. Those disagreements would be magnified as you go out into the player base at large.

There is no definitional agreement like you are claiming exists.

And the "behind the curve" you mention deals with mechanics, not settings which are mechanically agnostic these days.

The 2024 5e community is fractured on mechanical expressions not setting assumptions and social contract.

 

[mamba]

The 2024 5e community is fractured on mechanical expressions not setting assumptions and social contract.

I would not count on that…

 

[Minigiant]

the aspect being settings? They did release setting books, that they do not describe the setting you want does not mean there aren’t any, so at best this is like the random magic item tables having the wrong probabilities in your opinion

Sigh

They don't produce settings with the base material assumptions and social contracts of 2024 5e books and the mentality of its customer base.

 

[BenjaminPey]

They don't produce settings with the base material assumptions and social contracts of 2024 5e books and the mentality of its customer base.

They very much do, at least insofar as they can measure this kind of thing (and they can better than us).

 

[Maxperson]

The 2024 5e community is fractured on mechanical expressions not setting assumptions and social contract.

prove it.

 

[Maxperson]

They don't produce settings with the base material assumptions and social contracts of 2024 5e books and the mentality of its customer base.

Because it's a fool's errand to even try. The base is too fractured on everything, like people are on every topic.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would not count on that…

Yeah, judging by the comments on this forum I would say that setting assumptions and social contract issues are far more divisive than anything mechanical.

 

[Epic Meepo]

The 2024 5e community is fractured on mechanical expressions not setting assumptions and social contract.

It probably isn't your intention, but when you say the entire 2024 5e community is united in supporting your setting assumptions and social contract, you start sounding like a gatekeeper who gets to decide who is and isn't a member of that community. Your statement implies that multiple people posting in this thread who disagree with your opinions aren't members of the 2024 5e community.

 

[Scribe]

The 2024 5e community is fractured on mechanical expressions not setting assumptions and social contract.

 

[Maxperson]

Yeah, judging by the comments on this forum I would say that setting assumptions and social contract issues are far more divisive than anything mechanical.

I don't know that I would go that far. Pretty much everything, mechanical or not, is divisive. I'm not sure one is more than the other.