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5e: Which settings and when?

Started by Shipyard Locked, July 16, 2014, 09:02:51 PM

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Marleycat

#15
July 17, 2014, 01:24:10 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;770012In a perfect world....

Mystara...


One can dream...

I would love it, also Dragonlance given it would be so easy with the existence of subclasses.
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Exploderwizard

#16
July 17, 2014, 01:35:09 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;770012In a perfect world....

Mystara...


One can dream...

If I end up liking 5E enough to start running a 5E campaign then it WILL be set in Mystara. No official products will be needed.

If I can run 4E in Mystara then 5E will be a snap. :)
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#17
July 17, 2014, 01:38:56 PM
Quote from: Haffrung;770028The cynic in me assumes it will be whatever setting still has strong novel sales. Are Dragonlance novels still a thing?

Looks like the last new book was back in 2010, it's all been reprints and translations since then.

Still, there is a hell of a lot of them.

YourSwordisMine

#18
July 17, 2014, 02:45:32 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;770038If I end up liking 5E enough to start running a 5E campaign then it WILL be set in Mystara. No official products will be needed.

If I can run 4E in Mystara then 5E will be a snap. :)

Oh I know, but my dream is of new official and awesome material.
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Armchair Gamer

#19
July 17, 2014, 04:48:14 PM
Quote from: Haffrung;770028The cynic in me assumes it will be whatever setting still has strong novel sales. Are Dragonlance novels still a thing?

   The only setting that has new novels coming out for it is the Forgotten Realms, but the core Dragonlance novels are still in print.

    Indicators we've seen:

  • The four game-setting pantheons in the PHB are Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Greyhawk and Dragonlance (along with Norse, Celtic, Greek and Egyptian).
  • Weis has been making noises about wanting to do Authors' Cuts of the original Chronicles, with all the stuff that was cut for space 30 years ago. A War of the Lance adventure path would be a natural tie-in with those.
  • In one of the Forbes articles promoting 5E, they said we could look forward to new Ravenloft stuff "very soon". Since Ravenloft is my all-time favorite setting, and the primary thing that's kept me in D&D's orbit for the past 20 years, I regard this as a good thing. :)

Starglyte

#20
July 17, 2014, 05:47:05 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;770098The only setting that has new novels coming out for it is the Forgotten Realms, but the core Dragonlance novels are still in print.

    Indicators we've seen:

  • The four game-setting pantheons in the PHB are Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Greyhawk and Dragonlance (along with Norse, Celtic, Greek and Egyptian).
  • Weis has been making noises about wanting to do Authors' Cuts of the original Chronicles, with all the stuff that was cut for space 30 years ago. A War of the Lance adventure path would be a natural tie-in with those.
  • In one of the Forbes articles promoting 5E, they said we could look forward to new Ravenloft stuff "very soon". Since Ravenloft is my all-time favorite setting, and the primary thing that's kept me in D&D's orbit for the past 20 years, I regard this as a good thing. :)

Please let there be Ravenloft stuff. Despite being a 4e fanboy, when they announced the Ravenloft Adventure Game and then quietly cancelled it, I was really bummed.

Armchair Gamer

#21
July 17, 2014, 05:56:29 PM Last Edit: July 17, 2014, 08:15:54 PM by Armchair Gamer
Quote from: Starglyte;770123Please let there be Ravenloft stuff. Despite being a 4e fanboy, when they announced the Ravenloft Adventure Game and then quietly cancelled it, I was really bummed.

   That announcement was one of the things that got me to give 4E a second look, and I'm really disappointed we never even got a public release of the playtest draft as a 'might have been'. Then again, a couple of comments by the WotC design team have suggested to me that it was working on that game that convinced them that 4E wasn't working and that they needed to retool the whole D&D engine.

Will

#22
July 17, 2014, 06:42:45 PM
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;769839Will any get handed out to 3rd parties?

Speaking of, has there been any comments about what form 3pp stuff will take?
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#23
July 17, 2014, 07:28:35 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;770012In a perfect world....

Mystara...


One can dream...

You beat me to it:)
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#24
July 17, 2014, 07:30:52 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;770038If I end up liking 5E enough to start running a 5E campaign then it WILL be set in Mystara. No official products will be needed.

If I can run 4E in Mystara then 5E will be a snap. :)

While I never ran it in 4e, I concur with your reasoning. Vision of the savage coast dance in my head.:)
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Marleycat

#25
July 18, 2014, 12:06:29 AM
Quote from: Will;770146Speaking of, has there been any comments about what form 3pp stuff will take?

Not yet it seems we won't know until sometime in 2015.
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tenbones

#26
July 18, 2014, 12:58:08 AM
Personally, I don't give a fuck about Dragonlance. It was fun to a point, after War of the Twins it went downhill like a fucking avalanche. The original modules were eh, but the hardback and box sets were worthy.

There's too much overwrought retconning needed. Realms needs a good enema too after 4e.

Eberron is a good bet they'll cover.

I hope they go full bore with Al-Qadim and KaraTur. Fuck it I'd like Spelljammer and Darksun too.

Mystara would be a surprise,a good one too. But I'm not betting on it.

Jorunkun

#27
July 18, 2014, 02:02:56 AM
It would be clever if they made Dragonlance a Kickstarter, feat. Weis & Hickman.

Novastar

#28
July 18, 2014, 03:01:00 AM
Quote from: Haffrung;770028The cynic in me assumes it will be whatever setting still has strong novel sales. Are Dragonlance novels still a thing?[
Quote from: jadrax;770040Looks like the last new book was back in 2010, it's all been reprints and translations since then.

Still, there is a hell of a lot of them.
And the recent set of novels, pretty much set the clock back to just after the War of the Lance, minus Takhisis and Paladine (the big Evil and Good god, respectively).
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#29
July 18, 2014, 05:20:38 PM
It would be nice if WotC published a sword and sorcery setting for D&D. Something more like the Wilderlands or Hyboria than Dragonlance or Faerun.

Frankly, I've never seen much difference between Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Faerun, and Mystara. They're all pretty much middle of the road, vanilla fantasy settings.  It would be nice to to have a setting that is weirder or grittier than Greyhawk or Faerun without going full Dark Sun with insect people and no metal.
 
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