D&D Brand Manager of Fluff

[Nifft]

To bring this thread back from a coma, if not quite death, now that you know about 4E what would you do?

Four books of Elf porn, three books of Tiefling porn, and one very special aluminum covered book of Warforged porn.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Mark]

(. . .) and one very special aluminum covered book (. . .)

Likely to be water resistant and reflective.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

To bring this thread back from a coma, if not quite death, now that you know about 4E what would you do?

Visual guides, the Fables of Burdock, systemless culture books for each of the races, myths/legends books for each of the settings, Poor Wizard's Almanacs for FR and Eberron.

 

[Nifft]

Likely to be water resistant and reflective.

Tentative title: Up All Night.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Ry]

Thinking seriously about this, I think there needs to be more work done on the design characteristics of fluff. For some, playing an elf to get a +2 bonus to dexterity runs counter to the vibe they want for the game - they want playing an elf to be "having a different perspective on mortality and time." But it's very rare that that kind of thing can come up in game - even if the player is trying to introduce it.

 

[Mark]

Tentative title: Up All Night.

Cheers, -- N

Well, aren't you the mecha?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Four books of Elf porn, three books of Tiefling porn, and one very special aluminum covered book of Warforged porn.

What about Fey Porn? Succubus Porn? Would fey'ri porn be considered some weird fetish?

 

[Atlatl Jones]

A new Legends and Lore book, without god stats. A big book about the various gods, religions, legends, and beliefs, focusing on the priesthoods and the followers. The 3 religion books from 2nd edition were fantastic for this, and a 3rd edition one, with details on various earthly gods (Thor, etc), as well as the D&D/greyhawk gods, would be fantastic. Essentially the recent Dragon magazine gods of greyhawk series in book form. I'd also work hand in hand with Mr. Nard to create evocative and useful spells, feats, and talents (or whatever distinguishes between different types of clerics in 4e) for each of the priesthoods.

A new planescale setting book. Don't just focus on Sigil - reintroduce the entire planescape setting for 4th edition. Open it up a bit - don't just focus on the great wheel. Create a greater emphasis on demiplanes and planar pockets, so DMs can introduce any planar content they want. A book with the size and level of detail of the 3e Forgotten Realms book, devoted to the planescape setting, and planar adventuring in general. Use a combination of old-style planescape art with evocative new art.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Forgotten Realms - Beyond Faerun (Mazteca, Al-Qadim and Kara-Tur) will have to wait for a year or two, as will Oriental Adventures.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

I'm seeing this thread in a new light, considering the news. Rather than starting a humorous thread or maybe even seeing if there is any consensus on what new books to put out, it seems that Mr. Rouse was building a PR case for a new edition. The books mentioned are nice, but would not have wide appeal or could easily be done under 4e.

Not really. I just read a lot of crunch vs fluff wars on the boards and hear it from fans at the cons so I was interested to see what the fluffy side would want to see us put out in terms of books (and yes w/the amount of 3.5 rules out the fluff side screams loudly). When I wrote the thread I was not so much thinking of a particular edition as much as I was thinking about content DMs could use in their campaigns.

BTW we'll be announcing products for our Summer catalog soon and there are some non-rules fluff books in there under the survival guide series.

So what fluff do you want to see in 4e?