Bringing back old product lines as one-shot books

[glass]

Let's pick the following: Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, and Mystara. This means that we can devote an average of 40-50 pages to each campaign setting, allowing us to cover how races, classes, skills and spells are different in each, while only including how stats may change. Each setting is only allowed to introduce (or stat up) two new races and classes. A section containing the requisite four to six prestige classes unique to the setting is appropriate, as well as a section discussing how running this setting is different than the core setting (ala the first section in Eberron).

I think you are seriously underestimating how many pages it would take to do what you are describing. Apart from a curtailed gazetter, what you have described is basically the full contents of a 300 page cs book.

If they did what you describe, I would probably buy it. OTOH, if they did a couple of campaign classics books a year, one setting per book, I would quite possibly buy several or all of them. Especially if the have a nice matching trade dress that triggers my collector instinct.


glass.

 

[BOZ]

the "mutliple-settings-in-a-book" book would be better than nothing... but it would really be little more than a huge teaser.

 

[BOZ]

bump.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

One book, one setting.
Then I get my Planescape and no one has to die.
Well....They still will eventually...
But I'm not sayin' they have to.

But they will anyway...

 

[BOZ]

that's the old positive attitude.

 

[BOZ]

BUMP now that we're all back from the con...

 

[diaglo]

i'd buy a book if they did the old settings in the old edition systems.

 

[Staffan]

i'd buy a book if they did the old settings in the old edition systems.

That would be kind of pointless given that the old settings already had books in the old editions.

 

[diaglo]

That would be kind of pointless given that the old settings already had books in the old editions.

that is the same thing i say about the new editions.

 

[northrundicandus]

That would be kind of pointless given that the old settings already had books in the old editions.

Nay - In honor of the 30th anniversary celebration they should reprint all the good stuff from yesteryear:

* A Trampier cover Players Handbook
* A Sutherland cover DMG
* The original Greyhawk folio
* The DCS cover MM
* The original D&D boxed set

I'd buy multiple copies as long as they were bound well with clean white pages!