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Delnyn
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 24 Oct 2024 : 18:49:42
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| Should there necessarily even be a so-called main core setting? I am skeptical. |
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HighOne
Learned Scribe
216 Posts |
Posted - 25 Oct 2024 : 00:59:53
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Originally posted by The Sage
Heh. I remember the days when EBERRON was intended to take the place of GH and FR as the main core D&D setting.
I kind of thought the Critical Role setting would become default eventually. There was even an official campaign setting book. But I never hear about Critical Role any more, so maybe it's not as popular as it once was. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 25 Oct 2024 : 01:11:55
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Originally posted by Delnyn
Should there necessarily even be a so-called main core setting? I am skeptical.
I think for some game elements… it’s suggestively necessary. Like outlining deities, planes and cities and races. But then again, so many third-party generic rules-sets and settings establish themselves without a main core world forming the background for it…
I suppose the argument could be made either way. Just depends on the DM and the players themselves. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31758 Posts |
Posted - 25 Oct 2024 : 01:14:08
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Originally posted by HighOne
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Originally posted by The Sage
Heh. I remember the days when EBERRON was intended to take the place of GH and FR as the main core D&D setting.
I kind of thought the Critical Role setting would become default eventually. There was even an official campaign setting book. But I never hear about Critical Role any more, so maybe it's not as popular as it once was.
Interestingly enough, I just picked up that book the other day because it has some fascinating tidbits I’d learned about elsewhere… that I’d like to drop into my current Realms campaign.
It’s a shame this book hasn’t been expanded upon. It has the groundwork for some truly thrilling campaigns and lore-development. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
190 Posts |
Posted - 25 Oct 2024 : 20:49:55
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The core setting for 5.5E (and, unofficially, the last few years of 5E) is "the entire D&D multiverse." Forgotten Realms will likely remain the "base D&D" setting simply because of cross-marketing synergy (urgh) because when they say "Baldur's Gate," "Waterdeep" or "Neverwinter" people's ears prick up and they immediately rush to buy it. But it also sounds like they're happy to tap Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, Greyhawk and Dragonlance stuff going forwards, maybe Ravenloft a bit (but probably never Dark Sun, and by this point I assume they've forgotten Gothic Earth, Birthright and Mystara even exist).
I'll be honest and say that between the quality of the recent material and also being older and having much less free time to sit down and absorb new FR material (which I was able to in droves in the 1990s and 2000s), a relatively restrained release schedule is no bad thing. Complete newcomers learning the ropes on FR right now probably spend 90% of their learning curve catching up on 1-3E material and maybe 10% on 4E-5E material combined. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
190 Posts |
Posted - 31 Oct 2024 : 23:25:20
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Originally posted by The Sage
Heck. I’d love to see some new DARK SUN material.
I would like to see it done well, but after Spelljammer (terrible) and Planescape (mediocre), and with WotC's refusal to depict slavery at all (even as a obviously bad and evil thing), I don't see modern WotC being able to do it.
Maybe they could licence it to someone to run as a third-party setting, like they did for 3E with Dragonlance and Ravenloft, that could work. I could see someone like Free League doing something very interesting with it. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31758 Posts |
Posted - 31 Oct 2024 : 23:45:36
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| The 3e RAVENLOFT material was done superbly well. It still had such subtle ties to the old lore and felt like it was an extension of “The Domains of Dread” rather than feeling like a soft reboot. |
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New FR Campaign Setting Coming in 2025
