4E Campaign Announcement Time/Date

[Shroomy]

I see a lot of people speculating that it will be Dragonlance or Dark Sun, but I suspect it may be Greyhawk. It would definitely generate more buzz out of Gen Con than the other two.

 

[darjr]

Yea, Greyhawk would be a big splash. With me anyway. And I imagine the hubub would be deafening.

Still, it is the 25th anniversary of Dragonlance, it would be a shame not having a 4e setting.

 

[catsclaw227]

Greyhawk would be a bigger media event. It would create a splash and would create a huge buzz about how good or bad they will pull it off and who is writing on it and who is developing it. How will they introduce the core is everything set of races and classes? In my opinion, a new Greyhawk could be bigger than FR or Eberron.

 

[Shroomy]

Exactly, and I think the idea of Greyhawk with renewed, continuing support (of the overt kind and outside of the RPGA LG campaign) would appeal to a lot of gamers who wouldn't normally be interested in 4e offerings...just the sort of people who could be further enticed by a $5 PHB promotion at Gen Con.

Besides, if it is Dragonlance, why release the iconic enemy race from the setting six months prior to its probably Summer 2010 release? They couldn't wait six months?

 

[ggroy]

With the planar "Plane Above" and "Plane Below" books being scheduled for release, maybe a setting like Planescape or Spelljammer. Maybe even a single setting which cherry picks various aspects of Planescape and Spelljammer?

 

[Hawke]

I hope so bad isn't Dragonlance or Greyhawk. I can't see enough "new to the table" to be too excited about those. I'd love to see them treated later in the product cycle when it might make more sense to do 2 campaign settings a year (2011?)

My thought is it will be something new but perhaps with elements of a (maybe even a spiritual successor) former setting. Easiest might be a new setting that is heavily tided to planes/spelljamming w/o it simply being "Planescape."

 

[Shroomy]

The thing is that elements of Planescape, Ravenloft, and Spelljammer have all been combined into the core cosmology.

 

[Andor]

Yeah, I'm thinking it will be Dragonlance as the next campaign setting. We should do some spreadbetting or pools on the next campaign settings for the WotC years.

I bet 10 experience points it's Spelljammer. Giffs FTW!

 

[ggroy]

The thing is that elements of Planescape, Ravenloft, and Spelljammer have all been combined into the core cosmology.

Then call the new setting RavenPlaneJammer.

 

[Acid_crash]

I am putting fake money down that it will be Spelljammer or Planescape. I would cry if it's Dragonlance, we got so much of that during the 3.5 era that I'd love to see something different.

The notion of Greyhawk never even entered my mind, but after all the high magic stuff we've been getting lately going back in time to Greyhawk would actually be really cool.

But, I think the biggest shocker they can announce would be Scarred Lands. Nobody would ever see that one coming and that would surprise the hell out of a lot of people.