Some observations, using the votes as they currently stand:
1. Ordered by number of votes, the list goes: Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Eberron, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Kara-Tur, Mystara, Birthright, Blackmoor, Dragonlance, Maztica, Hollow World, Council of Wyrms, Red Steel, Taladas, None of the Above, and Jakandor. Poor Jakandor.
2. The settings currently supported by WOTC, Forgotten Realms and Eberron are in 1st and 3rd place respectively. Seems they're backing the right horse.
3. The settings currently supported by third-party companies, Ravenloft and Dragonlance, are in 8th and 13th place. Though I guess Sovereign Stone has their own reasons for wanting to do Dragonlance instead of any other, and White Wolf probably took on Ravenloft instead of any other because it fit their profile better.
4. If you include Taladas in Dragonlance's votes, DL jumps to 10th place. If you include Red Steel and Hollow World in Mystara's votes, it jumps to 6th. However, that's an unfair comparison, because I'm pretty sure a large number of Taladas voters already voted for DL, and the same goes for the Mystaran sub-settings.
5. If Sovereign Stone can make money off Dragonlance stuff, even with WOTC's sucky licensing terms, someone else ought to be able to make money from Planescape, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Mystara or Birthright. Probably not from all of those though, since that would bring on setting saturation. But at least Planescape and Dark Sun and maybe Spelljammer - I have a feeling WOTC would be less willing to license out Al-Qadim with its links to FR, weak as they may be. It's also possible that WOTC would be less likely to want to license out some settings - Planescape is kind of tied to the D&D cosmology, for example.
1. Ordered by number of votes, the list goes: Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Eberron, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Kara-Tur, Mystara, Birthright, Blackmoor, Dragonlance, Maztica, Hollow World, Council of Wyrms, Red Steel, Taladas, None of the Above, and Jakandor. Poor Jakandor.
2. The settings currently supported by WOTC, Forgotten Realms and Eberron are in 1st and 3rd place respectively. Seems they're backing the right horse.
3. The settings currently supported by third-party companies, Ravenloft and Dragonlance, are in 8th and 13th place. Though I guess Sovereign Stone has their own reasons for wanting to do Dragonlance instead of any other, and White Wolf probably took on Ravenloft instead of any other because it fit their profile better.
4. If you include Taladas in Dragonlance's votes, DL jumps to 10th place. If you include Red Steel and Hollow World in Mystara's votes, it jumps to 6th. However, that's an unfair comparison, because I'm pretty sure a large number of Taladas voters already voted for DL, and the same goes for the Mystaran sub-settings.
5. If Sovereign Stone can make money off Dragonlance stuff, even with WOTC's sucky licensing terms, someone else ought to be able to make money from Planescape, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Mystara or Birthright. Probably not from all of those though, since that would bring on setting saturation. But at least Planescape and Dark Sun and maybe Spelljammer - I have a feeling WOTC would be less willing to license out Al-Qadim with its links to FR, weak as they may be. It's also possible that WOTC would be less likely to want to license out some settings - Planescape is kind of tied to the D&D cosmology, for example.
