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Beyond D&D 5th Editon core

Started by elfandghost, May 29, 2014, 06:15:32 PM

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elfandghost

What do you want to see?

Me, at some point:

Ravenloft box set
Dark Sun box set
Dragon magazine
Mythras * Call of Cthulhu * OD&Dn

Haffrung

For rules modules/options:

  • Robust downtime content.
  • Critical hit/wounds.
  • Organizations and affiliations.
  • Campaign traits (a la FantasyCraft)
  • Domain management.
  • Support for expeditions and travel in the wilderness and dungeon environments.

For adventure and setting content:

  • Dark Sun.
  • An Underdark that returns Drow to the monstrously evil culture they should be. Proper maps would be nice too.
  • A small scale campaign setting along the lines of Nentir Vale.
  • A big sandbox dungeon.
  • Most of all, while I'm glad WotC is modelling 5E on a 2E era complexity level, I hope they don't reach back to the 2E era milqtoast, lower-common-denominator schlock fantasy.
 

Emperor Norton

Dark Sun

Planescape

And even though I know its dorky and silly, Spelljammer.

Also, yes for two of the things Haffrung mentioned: Domain Management, Downtime Content (I would say the wilderness travel rules but they've talked about it enough that I would assume that stuff is core).

BarefootGaijin

Optional rules linked to settings, not just thrown out via L&L or some digital content provider.

+1 to Spelljammer. We need a bit of crazy, but somehow stop it descending into "I go from Toril to Krynn and ruin the economy with Steel, and blow up the moon with space hamsters."

Though that might be quite cool.

Whilst I have Planescape, I am not too worried about it. It is nice to have, but playing it?  An alternative big world to the Realms. Maybe something that is a bit of a sandbox to be pooped in by DMs and cat-people.
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Sacrosanct

Don't know how much will be in the core, but I want extensive rules around world building, domain management, and campaign creation.  Get DM's back to creating worlds and adventures again.
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Opaopajr

As much as I love all those TSR settings, I would much rather see a solid conversion document for those that are well fleshed.

What I would love is expansion on those that were relatively tiny and have room for growth: Tale of the Red Comet, Lankhmar, Jakandor, Hollow World, Maztica, Kara-Tur, etc. Maybe even futuristic stuff like Alternity material.

And I would like to see expansion on naval and underwater material, like Cerilia Naval Campaigns, Sea of Fallen Stars, underwater adventures, etc.

And especially a brand new setting. A new world might be a uniting force among editions, and would avoid metaplot panic. But most importantly a new setting would breathe life on taking advantage of any new mechanics — and show new players how adding new setting based rules can create whole new worlds/genres.
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Scott Anderson

A damn easy system for generating hex maps and hex content. Enough of this published adventures and you figure out what happens in-between. Or play in our setting or you're basically fucked.

Teach DMs to create properly. The ones who can do it now are getting old.
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mcbobbo

I like the concept of using the same rules to build new rules/monsters/mechanics.  So more of that would be great.
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Scott Anderson

& start supporting Mystara again.
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Apparition

A science-fiction version of the rules, much like Buck Rogers XXVC and Gamma World.

Marleycat

#10
Given I don't DM Dnd I would like to see...

1. Dragonlance setting
2. Mystara setting
3. Game of Thrones setting (with lower than baseline magic)
4. Some straight up high technology cities in a sea of post apocalyptic wilderness setting
5. APG book (with backgrounds/subclasses/archetypes)
6. Unearthed Arcana book
7. Advanced Magic/Divine options book
8. Advanced Combat/Rogue options book
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gonster

Quote from: Celestial;753918A science-fiction version of the rules, much like Buck Rogers XXVC and Gamma World.

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LibraryLass

I don't anticipate I will get anything beyond core. Maybe some adventures if any look interesting, or a setting if they release one of my favorites, but the supplement treadmill was what eventually burnt me out on 3.5 and 4e.
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Bedrockbrendan

Quote from: elfandghost;753888What do you want to see?

Me, at some point:

Ravenloft box set
Dark Sun box set
Dragon magazine

I would love to see updated editions of those sets.

Bobloblah

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;753971I would love to see updated editions of those sets.
You know, I love those settings, but I'm torn about reprints. It'd be great for people who weren't around to be exposed to the stuff to have the chance to get into those settings. I, on the other hand, have pretty much all the AD&D 2nd material I want for the settings I like. The only thing I could see that could induce me to repurchase, so to speak, is if the new iterations were demonstrably better in some fashion...more material in a concise package, better maps, more usable adventure content maybe...it's hard to say, but there would definitely need to be that sense that, "Oh, yeah...this is definitely better!"
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