What should the default setting be for 4th edition?

[Reynard]

Construct. What was that about semantics?

Living constructs, with neither moving parts nor positronic brains. They have souls. They aren't 'programmed' in the slightest sense of the word.

It isn't an issue of semantics. It is an issue of accuracy, and "robot" is wholly inaccurate. You can probably get away with "android" if you absolutely, positively must pull some other-genre term out to disparage the setting, though.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I'd just prefer that Greyhawk was sold to Paizo or Erik himself

 

[rounser]

'No implied setting' isn't possible; even the most transparent ruleset implies things about setting, let alone one as detailed as D&D's.

Exactly.

The poll option should read "no default setting", not "no implied setting". Take the implied setting out of D&D and you're taking out all the races, spells, classes, monsters, magical and mundane items, assumptions about combat being a central theme etc. etc. What's left over isn't D&D, but rather something resembling FUDGE.

 

[Barak]

The way they did it for 3rd edition. As others have pointed out, I'm hesitant to say they used Greyhawk, since, really, the only thing of importance they used was the Gods. Sure, there's the names of a few NPCs in spells, but that's hardly world-shaping. This way is pretty much perfect, since it allows people who care little about setting to have gods for their clerics/paladins, and doesn't slam them with a bunch of stuff they have no use for. And those who do care about the world setting can use whatever they want without a huge waste of space, or make their own homebrew setting, with their own Gods or the included pantheon.. Really, it's the best for every style of play.

 

[mhensley]

I'd just prefer that Greyhawk was sold to Paizo or Erik himself

Shhh... don't tell anybody, but Erik voted for No Implied Setting.

http://www.enworld.org/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=3885

 

[Harmon]

corporate boardroom full of greedy board members

 

[Reynard]

corporate boardroom full of greedy board members

Yeah. There's nothing worse than business people trying to run a successful business. I say we scrap the whole 4th Edition idea and let D&D peter out altogether so that one day our hobby won't be sullied by greeed any longer.