Campaign Classics is coming back!

[devilish]

Add my voice to the choir -- that was an excellent issue.

Was it an Erik Mona idea?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'd love them to cut the regular Flaws feature down by a few pages (yes, they say they're cutting back on the flaws -- cut down on that section anyway) and stick a Campaign Classic in every issue.

 

[Shade]

I do believe it was an idea of Mr. Mona. He's the one who answers the mail, right?

 

[Testament]

Hooody-Hoo! Let's see some more Greyhawk, Birthright, Al-Qadim and Planescape. For the supposed "core" setting, Greyhawk gets squat. Al-Qadim is just a great setting, whilst Birthright and Planescape have always seemed very interesting to me. And Planescape is responsible for Torment, the best damn CRPG ever made.

Personally, I say Spelljammer and Kara-Tur can go rot on the garbage pile, one that Spelljammer should have never been allowed to leave, but that's just my opinion.

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, we're overdue for a "Campaign Classic" issue this year. Personally, I prefer it occurs more often (like 4 issues a year).

Oh, one man's garbage is another man's treasure. My treasure: Spelljammer and Kara-Tur. My garbage: Dark Sun and Planescape (I tried to get interested in them, but I can't).

Testify.

 

[JoeGKushner]

My garbage? Red Steel (the curse and the mutations, not some of the cool races, weapons and attitude.) Dark Sun (never enjoyed it.). Matica and the Hordelands (maybe an update could change my mind but...)

My treasure? Mystara. Very good generic D&D up there with Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. Voyages of the Princess Ark had many great articles. I'd love to see them do that for Eberron where someone was on a Skyship going through the land hitting all this little weird locations that were unlikely to be used in the main books but make good adventuring tales and spots.

 

[Eremite]

Personally, I would love to see Dark Sun done well but that's not going to happen so soon after the Paizo botch-up of it in Dungeon and Dragon. However, I can hope, can't I?

Planescape would surely have to be a certainty for an update: there are so many fans and almost all of them seem to be vocal in their support!

Similarly, Birthright is simply screaming out for a huge update. Why not redo the whole 2E boxed set over, say, three issues and perhaps with some web content that is paid for separately?

More updates to Spelljammer would also be great and I would be happy to read anything on Al-Qadim, Mystara, Kara-Tur etc... even if I never used the stuff.

However, whatever is decided by Erik et al with respect to Campaign Classics, I really hope we see more and more stuff about the lower planes.

 

[Staffan]

My treasure? Mystara. Very good generic D&D up there with Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms.

I would submit that for the purpose of a magazine issue dedicated to the weird & wonderful settings of yesteryear, "generic" is pretty much the opposite of what you want. If you're making a Spelljammer-themed article, for example, it shouldn't be about groundlings, it should be about actual spelljamming stuff. If you're making a Mystara article, it should be about one of the unique parts of the setting - perhaps the Glantri "Secret Crafts" as prestige classes, or something like that.

 

[Von Ether]

I just hope any Spelljaming stuff isn't a repeat of the Polyhedron mini-game they did a couple of years back. It was a fun game, but I already have this issue. If anything, it's another reason to lament the death of the Poly's mini-game theme. :-(

I'm confused. I thought 3.0+ default setting was Grayhawk. i.e. anything that didn't specificaly say Forgotten Relams or Eberron was G.H. I mean WotC's PrCs, like Fist of Hextor, use G.H. names. I even had a narrow-minded GM refuse the use of some PrCs because they mention G.H. organizations or gods since he doesn't use the G.H. world. (He can't seem to make the leap of "cut and pasting" other names for his campaign world.) And then doesn't Poly or Dragon have a regular Living Grayhawk seciton?

 

[Von Ether]

My garbage? Red Steel (the curse and the mutations, not some of the cool races, weapons and attitude.) Dark Sun (never enjoyed it.). Matica and the Hordelands (maybe an update could change my mind but...)

My treasure? Mystara. Very good generic D&D up there with Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. Voyages of the Princess Ark had many great articles. I'd love to see them do that for Eberron where someone was on a Skyship going through the land hitting all this little weird locations that were unlikely to be used in the main books but make good adventuring tales and spots.

LOL! Well, we proved that proverb right.

My garbage? Any generic fantasy setting. I can whip up one over the weekend and improv the details as I go (especially if the players help), why pay good money for that? I want to explore settings that are unique and bizarre. What disppointed me about TSR back in the day was that even when they tried to do something different, there was limited room since they had to do a hefty page count to retrofit the rules to support the setting.

On the other hand, one of the best suppliments before 3.0 was the AD&D redo of Mystra, mostly because it was one of the few TSR suppliments that actually focused on politics as compared to tons of retrofit rules or stock discriptions of X country simply because the setting was so simple and well known there was no where else to go.

... and that's what's missing in Eberron -- A hollow world!!!