4E Campaign Announcement Time/Date

[Kralin Thornberry]

Star Frontiers

 

[Scribble]

On a similar basis, the next setting will be Gangbusters or Top Secret.

Watch out for those pesky Russians.

 

[Scribble]

Too bad it's not a White Wolf game... This would be the perfect year for:

NerdRage: The Incessant.

 

[ggroy]

What would be really amusing is if there is no setting for next year. All the hype was largely to fool everyone.

 

[Nai_Calus]

Next year's setting is Shadowrun.

 

[darjr]

Metamorphosis Alpha

 

[Dragonhelm]

A 4e Tortle race would rock in general. Attached to a specific setting or not!

Agreed. In fact, I could easily see WotC taking the Mystara races and putting them in a PHB down the line.

So...kill Mystara and take its stuff?

 

[Dire Bare]

That's ... not quite the case, honestly.

While the 3.x default setting included Greyhawk elements, that's about as far as it went. The gods were switched around in priority, for one thing. For another, Greyhawk is honestly the 1e setting... that is, there are places for dwarves (of many varieties), elves (of even more varieties), gnomes (of two varieties), halflings (three kinds), humans (with a few non-game-related cultural groups), and half-orcs.

Greyhawk was mined for tons of ideas, mind you. Anything that was grabbed from 1e and advanced to 3e was basically from Greyhawk. But the 3e default setting was a lot more than its Greyhawk roots, if that makes sense.

-O

That's . . . not quite the case either, honestly.

Early 3rd Edition DID have Greyhawk as it's core setting. Yes, it fiddled with a few details, and presented it much like they are presenting the core setting for 4e, but Greyhawk was the default setting . . . at first.

But this didn't last long (don't really recall when the turning point was). Eventually 3rd Edition morphed into exactly what you describe, a generic, nameless fantasy core setting with elements lifted from Greyhawk . . . not all that different from today's core setting for 4e, actually!

 

[Dire Bare]

2. Maztica - Never popular, and wiped out in the Realms anyway.

Maztica as a stand-alone campaign setting isn't going to happen. But what if the next setting is Abeir, the twin world of Toril (the Forgotten Realms), and the place where Maztica "went"!!!

Now that would be cool!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Too bad it's not a White Wolf game... This would be the perfect year for:

NerdRage: The Incessant.

Every year is a good year to release that. And no year.