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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7766353" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>I agree that Mystara is a pipe-dream for Mystara fans, although I wouldn't be surprised to see a PDF treatment. But a hardcover? Very unlikely. </p><p></p><p>Greyhawk is also just so dated and idiosyncratic in tone; the folks who want it most and see it as on a similar level as the more recent settings are generally older players who have lost sight of cultural perspective (I am reminded of a 50ish Lyft driver who was telling me and my friend that the late 80s to early 90s was the height of popular music...umm, really?).</p><p></p><p>That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Greyhawk "commemorative edition" at some point. But I just don't see some great Greyhawk--or Mystara--revival to exhume the corpse of 70s-80s era D&D. WotC has created a formula that is working quite well, and I think it is partially because it has a relationship of appreciation and honoring to the older eras of D&D, but without fetishizing or trying to re-live the past.</p><p></p><p>Dragonlance is interesting, though, because it embodies something 5E has lacked so far: a huge, world-changing story. Well, there have been big stories, but not quite on the level of what Dragonlance is best known for.</p><p></p><p>That said, I would be surprised if they simply re-did the War of the Lance. I know that is the cultural trend to endlessly re-hash rather than innovate, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see WotC take a different route with a big epic story. Maybe still set in Krynn, or maybe something else. Actually, the Ravnica book gives me hope that they're willing to explore new worlds rather than simply re-do the old.</p><p></p><p> I also think it likely that we see some kind of world-connecting book at some opint within the next year or two, whether that is Planescape, Spelljammer, Planeswalkers, or a hybrid of all three. Again, they seem to want to turn a new spin on things, so my bet is on a hybrid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7766353, member: 59082"] I agree that Mystara is a pipe-dream for Mystara fans, although I wouldn't be surprised to see a PDF treatment. But a hardcover? Very unlikely. Greyhawk is also just so dated and idiosyncratic in tone; the folks who want it most and see it as on a similar level as the more recent settings are generally older players who have lost sight of cultural perspective (I am reminded of a 50ish Lyft driver who was telling me and my friend that the late 80s to early 90s was the height of popular music...umm, really?). That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Greyhawk "commemorative edition" at some point. But I just don't see some great Greyhawk--or Mystara--revival to exhume the corpse of 70s-80s era D&D. WotC has created a formula that is working quite well, and I think it is partially because it has a relationship of appreciation and honoring to the older eras of D&D, but without fetishizing or trying to re-live the past. Dragonlance is interesting, though, because it embodies something 5E has lacked so far: a huge, world-changing story. Well, there have been big stories, but not quite on the level of what Dragonlance is best known for. That said, I would be surprised if they simply re-did the War of the Lance. I know that is the cultural trend to endlessly re-hash rather than innovate, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see WotC take a different route with a big epic story. Maybe still set in Krynn, or maybe something else. Actually, the Ravnica book gives me hope that they're willing to explore new worlds rather than simply re-do the old. I also think it likely that we see some kind of world-connecting book at some opint within the next year or two, whether that is Planescape, Spelljammer, Planeswalkers, or a hybrid of all three. Again, they seem to want to turn a new spin on things, so my bet is on a hybrid. [/QUOTE]
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