2011, Spelljammer, 4th ed?

[Silverblade The Ench]

from rumours going around on forums, maybe Spelljammer is coming back next year?

PLEASE!!! pretty please with a gnome-eating tyrannosaurus giant space hamster on top?

hell I'd adore a combat space game/boxed set with minis for the ships, sort of like Ravenloft board game, and a campaign/monster book!

Gimmie gimmie!!!

 

[JoeGKushner]

What rumors would those be?

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

these ones

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[Derulbaskul]

That's my guess, too, for what it's worth and I can't wait!

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Hey Ravenloft, Spelljammer and Neverwinter (campaign and PC game) so 2011 maybe a BLOODY GOOD YEAR!

now all we'd need is a re-do of Planescape, though it's mostly been covered very well, I'd love the factions back and also Law/Chaos (which is my one beef with 4th ed)


Now this is what I want in Spelljammer 4th ed: Nautiloid slaves at work, muhaha
...now we just need to get the designers working like this on all our goodies!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh1tW16V-8&feature=related]YouTube - Ramming Speed![/ame]

 

[Dausuul]

Glancing at that thread, it looks highly dubious to me. One guy says he knows a guy who knows an (unnamed) WotC developer who says Spelljammer in 2011; he puts forward no evidence beyond this and no one else has chimed in to confirm or support. I've never had the impression that Spelljammer had enough of a fanbase to warrant reviving it. I'd expect to see Planescape return well before Spelljammer.

When are we gonna get a "native" 4E setting? I mean, don't get me wrong, I was ecstatic when they revived Dark Sun, and there are a few other 2E settings I wouldn't mind seeing return (Al-Qadim comes to mind--maybe I just have a thing for deserts), but I feel like 4E should have at least one setting all its own. Points-of-Light-Land isn't developed enough to qualify yet, IMO.

OD&D had Blackmoor. 1E had the "classic three" of Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Forgotten Realms, and a few spin-offs like Oriental Adventures. BECMI had Mystara and its sub-settings (Hollow Earth, Red Steel, et cetera). 2E had a list of settings as long as your arm. 3E had Eberron. What's 4E get?

 

[Scribble]

I'll give this a little more credibility when they start making sly comments in editorials and stuff that could be interpreted or misinterpreted as being Spelljammer... Until then, some dude who randomly says he knows some guy who knows a guy... Isn't cuttin it.

When are we gonna get a "native" 4E setting? I mean, don't get me wrong, I was ecstatic when they revived Dark Sun, and there are a few other 2E settings I wouldn't mind seeing return (Al-Qadim comes to mind--maybe I just have a thing for deserts), but I feel like 4E should have at least one setting all its own. Points-of-Light-Land isn't developed enough to qualify yet, IMO.

They're coming out with a Gazetteer. I'm thinking it will bring the PoL into a little more of a setting unto itself...

I kind of like the fact that the setting seems to be growing almost organically. I'm hoping that at some point they'll expand the PoL setting with another Gazetteer about other areas then the Nentir Vale... Kind of like Mystara.

 

[ProtoClone]

That would be nifty but I am not going to hold my breath for it.

 

[Stoat]

First: I'll believe it when I see it. "I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy" is pretty unpersuasive. Further, WotC has pretty much committed itself to the notion that, Spelljamming happens in the Astral Sea, not in space. I'd be very surprised if they put out anything like the 2E Spelljammer setting (with Giff, Giant Hamsters, Bral, etc. etc.)

Second: Even though I loved Spelljammer at the time, I'd like to see WotC try something new. D&D has too much of a tendency to cannibalize itself. We've had three "legacy" campaign settings, and Ravenloft will be a fourth. Nentir Vale is nice in a generic, fantasy heartbreaker kind of way, but it breaks no new ground. In short, I'm tired of seeing rehashes of stuff I've got stacked up in my closet. I want to see something different.

 

[weem]

Proof?!?!!?

Could it be?

...guess not