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News Digest: More D&D Campaign Setting Clues, Pathfinder 2nd Ed Announcements and a Live Stream, War
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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7739917" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>Dark Sun was traditionally "sealed off" because the characters there were OP compared to other campaign settings due to all the bonus stuff they go to make up for the low-magic nature (particularly no clerics so no easy healing). If they can figure out how to balance it with the other systems, they wouldn't need to as much. And it would give them some nice setting-wide repercussions to whatever Spelljammer adventure book/AL season they have. "The gates have been opened once again to all worlds" or something like that.</p><p></p><p>They're also being pretty smart about how they're approaching campaign settings so far to avoid that. Each time, they've given us the rules to run in the setting but still put everything either in Forgotten Realms or connected there in some way. It makes it easy for DMs to extrapolate from them and the optional rules in the DMG to set a campaign in those worlds rather than focusing on campaign settings that don't really <em>need </em>a whole lot of new rules to run. Dragonlance, you just really need the racial stats for Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Draconians and a few magic items and that's about it since there's not a whole lot that's different. Same goes with Greyhawk. Based on that pattern, my money is on Spelljammer, Dark Sun, and Eberron for the next three settings and most likely in that order.</p><p></p><p>And, pure speculation, I think they're holding Dragonlance back as a movie tie-in in case that's the direction the film license goes in. If it doesn't, they can always do Dragonlance later but saving it for when the film's release will capitalize on cross-promotion. Particularly if they have new novels to go with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7739917, member: 6669048"] Dark Sun was traditionally "sealed off" because the characters there were OP compared to other campaign settings due to all the bonus stuff they go to make up for the low-magic nature (particularly no clerics so no easy healing). If they can figure out how to balance it with the other systems, they wouldn't need to as much. And it would give them some nice setting-wide repercussions to whatever Spelljammer adventure book/AL season they have. "The gates have been opened once again to all worlds" or something like that. They're also being pretty smart about how they're approaching campaign settings so far to avoid that. Each time, they've given us the rules to run in the setting but still put everything either in Forgotten Realms or connected there in some way. It makes it easy for DMs to extrapolate from them and the optional rules in the DMG to set a campaign in those worlds rather than focusing on campaign settings that don't really [I]need [/I]a whole lot of new rules to run. Dragonlance, you just really need the racial stats for Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Draconians and a few magic items and that's about it since there's not a whole lot that's different. Same goes with Greyhawk. Based on that pattern, my money is on Spelljammer, Dark Sun, and Eberron for the next three settings and most likely in that order. And, pure speculation, I think they're holding Dragonlance back as a movie tie-in in case that's the direction the film license goes in. If it doesn't, they can always do Dragonlance later but saving it for when the film's release will capitalize on cross-promotion. Particularly if they have new novels to go with it. [/QUOTE]
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