What products do you wish WotC would re-do?

[Kzach]

Someone mentioned selling their 2e MM in the chatroom today and it reminded me that my old compendium (the 2e MM sheets that were sold separately and fit into a folder) was missing some pages and it'd be nice to fill the gaps.

Then it occurred to me that I'd love to see WotC do a similar concept for 4e. What made the compendium so great was that the individual sheets were sold much like expanded monster volumes, but because of the significantly lower production costs, were half the price.

This was great for putting together a really large collection of monsters that could all fit in the one folder. Personally, I thought it was one of the best product ideas to ever come out of TSR.

So what other products would you like to see WotC produce for 4e? Or hell, from 3PP's as well!

 

[Mark]

What products do you wish WotC would re-do?

Is this a trick question where someone is baited into posting "4E" only to get booted for starting an edition war?

 

[Kzach]

Is this a trick question where someone is baited into posting "4E" only to get booted for starting an edition war?

Wow... way to derail the thread. And on the second post no less. Is that a record?

In case you haven't noticed, WotC is only making 4e content now. So it'd be a bit tough for them to redo something for 3.5, don't you think?

 

[Rechan]

I came in at the tail end of 2e, so I really don't have a lot of stuff I wish to see again, necessarily. Although I do have a thought, but this is more combining what hsa been done and revamping it.

The noly thing that I can really think of is to take Sandstorm, Frostburn (I guess), Stormwrack, and something that focused on Jungles/Forests/Swamps, and made one big Campaign Geographica, all about running adventures in the distinct geographic areas, looking at the rules, just fluff about the environment. Possibly discussions of archetypical fantasy for those areas. Very light on the rules.

Oh, and Powers of Faerun. This came out only two years or so ago, but I think more people should get a look at it; the only reason I think most didn't look at it is because the examples are FR-specific, but really, the big chunk of information is pure gold. It's merely instructions on how to run a campaign that involves moving up the hierarchy of a Church, or the Military, a King's court, running the frontier, having PCs in a thiefs guild, or merchants.

 

[Shawn_Kehoe]

Someone mentioned selling their 2e MM in the chatroom today and it reminded me that my old compendium (the 2e MM sheets that were sold separately and fit into a folder) was missing some pages and it'd be nice to fill the gaps.

Then it occurred to me that I'd love to see WotC do a similar concept for 4e. What made the compendium so great was that the individual sheets were sold much like expanded monster volumes, but because of the significantly lower production costs, were half the price.

This was great for putting together a really large collection of monsters that could all fit in the one folder. Personally, I thought it was one of the best product ideas to ever come out of TSR.

So what other products would you like to see WotC produce for 4e? Or hell, from 3PP's as well!

What I really want is a nice artbook (or series of artbooks!) with the best cover / interior art from the game's 35 year history. Sure, 30 Years of D&D had lots of nice art, but usually it was just fragments of the whole image. I want the full page illustrations from the 2nd Edition core rulebooks, Stephen Fabian's Ravenloft artwork, Hickman's Dragonlance. That's my #1 redo project.

My favourite 3.5 line was the series that focused on creature types (Draconomicon, Libris Mortis etc) and that is imminent in 4th. I'd really like to see the Oriental Adventures material and maybe the 2nd Edition historical sourcebooks get dusted off.

 

[Dog Moon]

I would love to see updated Faiths and Avatars, Demihuman Deities, and Powers and Pantheons in 4e. BASICALLY, keeping all the fluff, adding in whatever happened due to their changing in the setting for 4e, replace the art with GOOD [and colored] art, make all the holy symbols colored, and change the crunch for each deity with appropriate 4e crunch to give us individuals Clerics and Paladins for every faith.

Would be AWESOME, IMO.

 

[Dog Moon]

I would love to see updated Faiths and Avatars, Demihuman Deities, and Powers and Pantheons in 4e. BASICALLY, keeping all the fluff, adding in whatever happened due to their changing in the setting for 4e, replace the art with GOOD [and colored] art, make all the holy symbols colored, and change the crunch for each deity with appropriate 4e crunch to give us individuals Clerics and Paladins for every faith.

Would be AWESOME, IMO.

Edit: EnWorld agrees with me SOOOOO much that it felt the need to repeat my posts.

 

[Monkey Boy]

So what other products would you like to see WotC produce for 4e? Or hell, from 3PP's as well!

Darksun would be nice if done right. Maybe psionics got bumped so they could be released with the Darksun campaign setting in 2010! I can dream can't I?

I don't think I'm in the market for product anymore. I have that much 3.5, BECMI and 2e I'm fatigued. I might buy new innovative material but it would need to be getting rave reviews.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

I'm rather torn here.

I'd LOVE a new Planescape book. Honestly, I would, even for 4e. But I would inevitably hold it up to the 2e one, and, quite frankly, I don't think it's possible for WotC to remake the book better then how I perceive the original. I'm not saying Wizards can't make a good book, I'm saying that I loved - and still love - the 2e book so much that I don't think they could break past my perception of it.

 

[Crothian]

Nothing!! I want to see orginal content not a rehash of what already has been published.