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<blockquote data-quote="Monkey King" data-source="post: 3689698" data-attributes="member: 22474"><p><strong>Core Books (5)</strong></p><p><strong>Unseelie Courts:</strong> Fey and changlings. I'm sure this is more popular than giants. Amazing potential for both player and DM use, if it's done right.</p><p><strong>Expedition to the Barrier Peaks:</strong> A new take on the classic adventure. Plus hey, killer robots and lasers.</p><p><strong>Age of Worms Hardcover:</strong> Lots of pent-up demand for this. Why not give the people what they want?</p><p><strong>Complete Steampunk:</strong> A crunch/fluff book of all that piston-driven awesomeness, lots of drawings, some artificer tie-ins, backstory on constructs, and maybe a machine organization or society. Could also be the Big Book of Constructs, though that might push it into heavy crunch. How do tech and magic come together in D&D?</p><p><strong>The Far Realm:</strong> Bruce Cordell's take on Lovecraftian madness is a huge favorite and has a come a long way in just a few years. Work it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Setting-Specific (3)</strong></p><p><strong>Eberron:</strong> Maybe something discussing warforged, the dragonmarked houses, and artificers in more detail. Get some crunch and a lot of stories, politics, and discussion of the machines of war. </p><p> Eberron Rising Nations seems like a good book for DMs, a little less so for players.</p><p><strong>Sigil:</strong> The ultimate planar city, an add-on usable in many campaigns, but also a Planescape book. Lots of distinctive NPCs, massive hooks, new planar lore, bigshot planar movers and shakers. Not your average city book. Builds off In the Cage and the Faces book.</p><p><strong>Forgotten Realms:</strong> The Dales. Or the Savage North. I'm no Realms expert, but I get the sense that there's lots of great 2E fluff that has never been updated. Maybe review the 2E sales to figure out what FR to revisit?</p><p></p><p>I'd love to say the <strong>Greyhawk corebook</strong> should be on this list, but I'm fairly sure that expanding the core setting doesn't align with the brand philosophy. Would be awfully cool, though. Likewise an <strong>Arabian/Elemental book</strong> would be amazing, but it's probably a crunch book of classes and spells, not a fluff book at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Monkey King, post: 3689698, member: 22474"] [B]Core Books (5)[/B] [B]Unseelie Courts:[/B] Fey and changlings. I'm sure this is more popular than giants. Amazing potential for both player and DM use, if it's done right. [B]Expedition to the Barrier Peaks:[/B] A new take on the classic adventure. Plus hey, killer robots and lasers. [B]Age of Worms Hardcover:[/B] Lots of pent-up demand for this. Why not give the people what they want? [B]Complete Steampunk:[/B] A crunch/fluff book of all that piston-driven awesomeness, lots of drawings, some artificer tie-ins, backstory on constructs, and maybe a machine organization or society. Could also be the Big Book of Constructs, though that might push it into heavy crunch. How do tech and magic come together in D&D? [B]The Far Realm:[/B] Bruce Cordell's take on Lovecraftian madness is a huge favorite and has a come a long way in just a few years. Work it. [B]Setting-Specific (3)[/B] [B]Eberron:[/B] Maybe something discussing warforged, the dragonmarked houses, and artificers in more detail. Get some crunch and a lot of stories, politics, and discussion of the machines of war. Eberron Rising Nations seems like a good book for DMs, a little less so for players. [B]Sigil:[/B] The ultimate planar city, an add-on usable in many campaigns, but also a Planescape book. Lots of distinctive NPCs, massive hooks, new planar lore, bigshot planar movers and shakers. Not your average city book. Builds off In the Cage and the Faces book. [B]Forgotten Realms:[/B] The Dales. Or the Savage North. I'm no Realms expert, but I get the sense that there's lots of great 2E fluff that has never been updated. Maybe review the 2E sales to figure out what FR to revisit? I'd love to say the [B]Greyhawk corebook[/B] should be on this list, but I'm fairly sure that expanding the core setting doesn't align with the brand philosophy. Would be awfully cool, though. Likewise an [B]Arabian/Elemental book[/B] would be amazing, but it's probably a crunch book of classes and spells, not a fluff book at all. [/QUOTE]
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