The Piazza

Alphatian Neatharum

Mystara fans: Ashtagon has created another map:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

This one is "Alphatian Neatharum" and is based on the Wrath of the Immortals boxed set. What do you think of Ashtagon's changes?

#Mystara #DnDCartography #DnDMaps

Thanks for the signal boost @jeboyt.bsky.social

* Linking settings (SJ, PS, RL),
* Settings attempting to be "different" (Dark Sun, Ghostwalk, Eberron).

Each setting includes some D&D ideas and excludes others. So the "sales pitch" is probably about the ingredients and how they are mixed.

6/6

As for the question "how might a new setting distinguish itself from the wealth of existing settings?"

If you group settings you can see common themes:
* Settings using ideas from Europe (Mystara, GH, DL, FR),
* Settings using non-European ideas (KT, AQ, Maztica),

5/6

Better use of the Guild Adept concept could allow for the creation of "B-Team D&D Campaign Settings" that go straight to Print on Demand format.

Better use of the Hasbro Pulse concept could allow fans who like "experimental" settings to fund PoD products, online freebies or Free RPG Day items.

4/6

The current 5e business model appears to require high volumes of sales. That works against products that could expand out a new setting that could capture a small-but-loyal following.

Selling off niche IPs could break the stalemate, but stops that IP being part of the D&D story.

3/6

FINDING MINOR D&D WORLDS AND D&D MINI-SETTINGS DISCUSSIONS AT THE PIAZZA

D&D repeatedly gets minor Dungeons & Dragons worlds or mini-settings that explore ideas, but most of these ideas are abandoned quickly.

We have a partial list here:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Many of the recent new settings came from Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.

2/6

One of the challenges of D&D, as a commercial product line is the "too many settings killed TSR" mantra that came from the 2e design team and that makes WotC cautious about campaign setting proliferation.

Innovation is great. But familiar settings support long-term campaigns.

1/6

But maybe the REAL Dungeons & Dragons is the fan material we create along the way. 😉

5/5

There are several competing ideas for a D&D universe (or D&D Multiverse) including Frank Mentzer's BECMI cosmology, The Great Wheel, Spelljammer's crystal spheres, Planescape's update to the Great Wheel and various bespoke ideas in specific campaign settings.

4/5

"Schrodinger's D&D rules" give us science fiction elements, psionics, gunpowder, ceremorphosis, bloodlines and ancient non-science fiction multiverse empires that either exist or do not exist, depending on what D&D books you choose to open.

D&D both evolves and/or reboots itself.

3/5

Dave Arneson evolved the Blackmoor game out of wargaming and Gary Gygax turned that into the first marketable version of D&D. Battlesystem brought back wargaming aspects that were abandoned only to be brought back again as Chainmail and the D&D Miniatures game.

What is old becomes new.

2/5

Dungeons & Dragons is over 50 years old and is more of a multinational extended family of RPG rules and campaign settings than one singular roleplaying game.

The current game gets called 5th Edition, but isn't. There are multiple unnumbered D&D rules, including cut down "starter rules".

1/5

[Spelljammer2e] Converting the Sea Devils adventures?

Raeken is thinking of converting the Sea Devils trilogy of adventures to Spelljammer:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Has anyone run these adventures? How easy do you think it would be to adapt?

#Spelljammer

Dwarven Citadel

They missed out on an opportunity to give him a Dwarven Citadel from Spelljammer. 😉

Great Bombard

Spelljammer includes a gun so big it needs to be moved around on a flying ship:
spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Great_B...

Potulus!:
spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Potulus

[Threshold] Issue #37 is available!

Our friends over at Threshold Magazine have another issue out!:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Issue 37 is called Villages and Towns.

Download this free 200 page PDF and use it's eleven articles it in your Mystara games!

#Mystara #ThresholdMagazine

Dragons in the Wilderlands

Wilderlands fans: Can you help monocules make a list of all the dragons in Wilderlands?:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

What named and unnamed dragons can you find in the Wilderlands products that you own?

#Wilderlands

Manta (ship) used by the sahuagin

Spelljammer fans: Have you ever done anything with the manta ship from pages 78-79 of The Sea Devils?:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Did you make deckplans? How would you adjust the ship for use with Spelljammer?

#Spelljammer #MonstrousArcana

Site G: Jakandor's Underdark

Jakandor fans: Have you ever looked at the New Sites in Jakandor: Land of Legend?:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

How would you expand out the Underdark under the mountain at Site G?

#Jakandor

Cannibaal Publishing seeking Greyhawk collectors to help Lakofka Archive

Len Lakofka's last wish was for fans to see his unfinished works:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

@cannibaal.bsky.social has been funding art, maps and layout for the documents the Lakofka Archive already have.

If you have any Lakofka tournaments, please get in touch.

#LakofkaArchive

Call for Contributions: WSM7 Realmspace: The Forgotten Realms Crystal Sphere

Spelljammer fans: Wildspace Magazine wants your help:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Can you contribute to WSM7 Realmspace: The Forgotten Realms Crystal Sphere?

Send in your proposals now!

#Spelljammer #ForgottenRealms #Realmspace

Dragonborn of the Dragon Empire

13th Age fans: AusJeb has shared his ideas of how the Icons view dragonborn in his campaign:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

What do you think of this take? How does it compare to yours?

#13thAge

Seasonal ice, icebergs, the Southern polar opening

Hollow World fans: Have you ever been curious about icebergs near the polar openings?:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Cab is trying to figure out if they would form in winter and drift through the polar openings. What is your feeling on this?

#HollowWorld

Escalation Articles Needed: In My Dragon Empire

13th Age fans: Escalation! A 13th Age Fanzine needs articles for their "In My Dragon Empire" special:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Please consider submitting details of your Dragon Empire so that everyone else in the community can enjoy them.

#13thAge

Demons and Monsters of the Norse Realms of Mystara

Mystara fans: Havard is working on BECMI stats for various monsters found on the Norse Planes of Mystara:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Follow his project as he adds more monsters.

#Mystara

Ravenloft fans: The Fraternity of Shadows have another issue of Quote the Raven ready for you to read:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

Issue 32 is a gigantic 568 page netboook. Tell us what articles you like most.

#Ravenloft

New Character Class: Engineer (in progress)

Classic D&D fans: Cab is working on a new character class he calls the Engineer:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

What do you think of the direction this headed in? Are there any more improvements that could be made?

#ClassicDnD

Some Rules in 0D&D

Original Dungeons & Dragons fans: Can you help YUMDM with a few questions?:
www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic...

How have you ruled these sort of things in your games?

#OriginalDnD