Where are all of the campaign settings?

Carnivorous_Bean · Jan 7, 2009

Campaign settings are a pretty hard sell in any case, compared to books of rules, and with the restrictions of the GSL -- for example, the fact that you can't have an "elf" in your setting without it being precisely the same as the 4th edition elf in all regards -- I'd say it's unlikely that too many will emerge.

Chainsaw · Jan 7, 2009

Carnivorous_Bean said:
Campaign settings are a pretty hard sell in any case, compared to books of rules, and with the restrictions of the GSL -- for example, the fact that you can't have an "elf" in your setting without it being precisely the same as the 4th edition elf in all regards -- I'd say it's unlikely that too many will emerge.

Return of the Homebrew!

Cam Banks · Jan 7, 2009

Carnivorous_Bean said:
Campaign settings are a pretty hard sell in any case, compared to books of rules, and with the restrictions of the GSL -- for example, the fact that you can't have an "elf" in your setting without it being precisely the same as the 4th edition elf in all regards -- I'd say it's unlikely that too many will emerge.

I don't actually agree with this. I think people want campaign settings, with all the bells and whistles. They want maps, gazetteers, adventure hooks, new paragon paths and feats and races, new gods and channel divinity feats, new monsters, all tied together with a sense of "play here!"

Whether people can produce those sorts of products or not is another story. But I like the current WotC model of 2 sourcebooks + adventure. It's pretty cool.

Cheers,
Cam

Mathew_Freeman · Jan 7, 2009

The Raiders Guild line of products by Axe Initiative Games are more about a play-style than a campaign setting, but from what I've seen there is going to be an implied setting to the whole thing.

Shroomy · Jan 7, 2009

One setting that everyone is forgetting to mention is WoTC's implied 4e setting. Yeah, it doesn't have a map of anything more than the Nentir Vale and whatever WoTC has released piecemeal in sourcebooks/modules/DDI articles, but its a pretty coherent and detailed world IMO and since its fairly open-ended, its easy to customize.

Rel · Jan 7, 2009

Mallus said:
So did we.

BTW Rel, I dig your setting.

Thank you, dude. And I think your setting is far out as well.

Voadam · Jan 7, 2009

Goodman has non GSL 4e modules set in their Known Worlds setting.

If Freeport counts as a setting from the 1st Freeport module that came out day 1 then Known Worlds counts for the DCC modules.

I don't know if the XRP 4e books are set in a specific setting or not.

deganawida · Jan 7, 2009

Shroomy said:
One setting that everyone is forgetting to mention is WoTC's implied 4e setting. Yeah, it doesn't have a map of anything more than the Nentir Vale and whatever WoTC has released piecemeal in sourcebooks/modules/DDI articles, but its a pretty coherent and detailed world IMO and since its fairly open-ended, its easy to customize.

I'll second that statement. In fact, I'll go further and state that I would absolutely love to see WotC compile all the info that they have on the PoL setting into one book. They don't have to flesh it all out (in fact, I'd prefer that they don't ever flesh it all out), but I'd love to have it in one easy-to-reference-and-read book.

JohnRTroy · Jan 7, 2009

I think the GSL is one of the main reasons, at least for the existing campaign settings that could be converted.

Of course one other thing was there wasn't a whole slew of campaign settings from the get go. Scarred Lands was one of the few. D&D 4e hasn't been out a whole year yet. I think it took time for some settings to be published.

Another factor could be 4e is so different from 3e that it would take time to factor in all the game changes. A lot of old work would require a lot of converting. Different classes, you'd have to convert spells to powers and rituals, etc.

And simply put, it takes time for people to learn the new system (and WoTC dropped the ball by not giving third-parties previews).

I suspect we'll start seeing some come out this year.

Emirikol · Jan 10, 2009

Warhammer fantasy. Great for D&D.

jh

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