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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 4885727" data-attributes="member: 51930">It will not be Grayhawk:  1)  Paizo was the greyhawk development team for so long, and they did that for 3e.  The push for Greyhawk would likely not be there in the same way, and I could see it igniting more of the Pathfinder/WOTC bickering that's slowly dying down.  2)  Gary Gygax has just recently died.  Changing the edition and cosmology of Greyhawk would be such a smudge of his work that it could go sour and be seen as an insult.  Granted, it was the 3e standard world, but he was still alive then.  It's just too soon for a lot of people.  If the FR backlash was bad, *any* changes here would be worse.  3)  Enough Greyhawk elements are already in 4e that there isn't a point.  Consider the manual of the planes having absorbed Grazzt AND Tasha/Iggwylv (I should check the spelling on her name).  They're about as Core now as Ravenloft/Domains of Dread.  Vecna is in Open Grave, along with Strahd von Zarovich, as is Kyuss.  Dragonomicon 1 has Ashardalon's stats, as well as Dragotha.       Granted, that also sets Dragonlance out, as Cyan Bloodbane is in that one; however, the setting and novel is named outright.  If they do pick one of the settings that have been swallowed by POL that opens the floodgates for ALL settings in POL, such as Planescape, Ravenloft, Spelljammer, Dragonlance, etc.    The reason being that they're simply expanding the Core setting, or parts of the core setting.  However they do it, I expect that's how they may get around to it.I predict that may be the direction they'll go in from now on.  Planescape/Spelljammer would be more viable because they have so many settings to swap between.  Heck, that would allow Core to include both Swordmages *and* Artificers, as there would be a route to putting all of them in the same world WRITTEN INTO the fabric of Core cosmology.which means more books.Hmm, more questions than answers.As long as they don't do a "possible worlds" where variant versions of all the settings exist, like Sliders.  It's been done to death by comics.I think original would be cool, but maybe not.EDIT:  basically, I'm saying if they change settings, it will be to make all of them fit the planar cosmology AND add to the rules set (ie: the aforementioned Dragonlance mass combat rules) of Core.  That way all settings will be part of one big setting called Core.     I think that would be a good thing, if only because they could sell all their settings books as core books; also, that was fun with Planescape and 2e.  Home games might be one setting only, but it could be done to have settings all over the place. If so, I don't think they'll do utterly different Cosmology takes, like Eberron 3e's planes.  Maybe not, but it hasn't been a trend.</blockquote>

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