Every 5e fan knows and complains bout the fact that WoTC seems to not want to take us away from the bloody Forgotten Realms - seriously, by this point in time, 4e had given us 2 corebooks AND an adventure for three settings, AND half a dozen planar sourcebooks.
But, let's say that they finally got it through their heads that we want something new, and gave us a non-Faerunian sourcebook. What would you actually want?
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Horizon Seeker's Guide: This would basically bring back Planescape and Spelljammer by putting the relevant details into one sourcebook. This would be a sourcebook for DMs who want to run "cosmic" campaigns, either metaphysical (planewalker) or literal (spelljammer). Add in rules for shaping your own cosmology and universe, notable locations from the Planes, and races from both setting - Gith, Bariaur, Rogue Modrons, Giff, Scro - and you've got a real hit package.
Well of Worlds: A complete guidebook to all of the big campaign settings of TSR. Throw in a basic summary, essential 5e mechanics (Inheritance rules for Birthright, Defiling rules/Defiler tradition for Dark Sun, etc) and the "greatest hits" races, and you'd have everything you need to officially update your setting to 5e.
Realm Shaper's Guide: A DM's sourcebook aimed at doing alternative forms of fantasy setting. Want to do an Oriental Adventures setting? A Weird Western? Sword & Sandals? Everything you need for the more unconventional D&D game.
Crown-Crushing Champions: Epic level characters are a D&D tradition. Basic had the Immortals rules, Advanced had... not sure, 3e had the Epic Level Handbook, 4e backed epic tier right into the core rules. It's time 5e got on the bandwagon.
Nentir Vale Gazetteer: A complete sourcebook for all lore relating to the "Nentir Vale/Points of Light" setting of 4e. Why is this its own thing? 1: It was actually supposed to come out for 4e, and was nearly ready to hit the printers, but they canceled it. 2: To circumvent all the grognards who'd refuse to buy Well of Worlds if it had Nentir Vale in it.
So... what, no 5e fan has at least one dream book for if WoTC finally decided to stop beating a dead horse and give us something that isn't based on/set in the Forgotten Realms?
Well, there's always Eberron.
Personally I'd like some Dark Sun love.
Al-Qadim setting continent is technically already part of Forgotten Realms, but other than one or two passing mentions in SCAG they seem to have... forgotten about it, same for Kara-Tur.
Wow, I thought people would at least fight me on these ideas for being completely and utterly crap...
>what are the Plane Shift articles
>what is Curse of Strahd
>what is Urban Arcana
Wizards has started giving us plenty of material for us to use for other settings, user.
Personally, I think those are all great ideas, especially Well of Worlds.
Oh, yes, because ONE adventure and half a dozen of online articles that most DMs reject as "glorified homebrew" really counts as "plenty of options for non-Faerun settings".
...Really? Why do you think those ideas sound good?
Yeah, I'd get all of them. I've wanted Epic rules, alternate rules, and older setings basically since 5e came out. Combing some of the big setings into one book is just a great idea.
The Realm Shaper's Guide sounds sweet. That would be my first choice.
I'm down for literally all of these
But Realm Shaper's and Crown-Crushing are the ones I'd want the most
I've always loved epic level stuff, even if the game gets a little wonky at those levels, and hate that 5e took epic out of the Core Rules
Yeah, this is a good set of ideas: If WotC won't make these you should and post them on DM's Guild for mad cash.
Maybe get Veeky Forums on board to help write these
5e hasn't even met my forgotten realms setting wants. I'm relying on DMG products written by former realms authors, and stuff from old editions. I suspect they never will put out any decent setting books of any kind.
But if they did, what would I want?
Unified planescape + spelljammer could be good.
Aside from that?
A separate 300 page, mechanics-light hardback book on each of Ravnica, Tarkir, domination, (old) Phyrexia, and Kamigawa. In that order. A single general Mtg supplement with most of the mtg based character options.
DMG is faerun/ravenloft only.
But regarding the realms, I would be all over a bunch of products about the old elven empires such as aryvandar and ilythiir, about ancient netheril, about ancient imaskar, about the ancient dragon kingdoms and the ancient sarrukh kingdoms.
But until then I suppose I'll stick to Phasai's work, and what has been covered over several sources.
This, so much.
Reminds me of that article:
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>they finally got it through their heads that we want something new
Market research shows that you're wrong. "We" don't want a splatbook every month. This kills profits and the product line.
While some of these ideas are decent and I would personally buy 1 of them, most gamers wouldn't and none would be profitable considering the work involved.
>Nentir Vale Gazetteer: A complete sourcebook for all lore relating to the "Nentir Vale/Points of Light" setting of 4e. Why is this its own thing? 1: It was actually supposed to come out for 4e, and was nearly ready to hit the printers, but they canceled it. 2: To circumvent all the grognards who'd refuse to buy Well of Worlds if it had Nentir Vale in it.
Did the Nentir Vale Gazetteer? Ever get released or at least leaked? That really pissed me off. (At least the map program was had an excuse of a murder suicide and was a side thing anyway)
Of course points of light was intentionally vague so trying to make it a a consistent setting was a bit misguided but still.
It's not like Mystara Gazetteers made it any less weird and vague
I don't think It's possible to kill D&D more, It's fucking dead.
Nope. I didn't even know it had been planned until some other 4e-friendly thread said that it was almost ready to be done before Mearls had it cancelled. Far as I know, the best way it exists is tucked into WoTC's personal data archives.