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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6288449" data-attributes="member: 78752">I'll be a little more specific and say that I believe Wizards when they say they're going to support all the settings.  I just think most of the coverage will be in Dragon.  So my percentages will reflect how likely we are to see a hardback.If we don't see Forgotten Realms support, it's because Yellowstone has erupted.  100%.Fair.  98-100%, whatever.  I can't really speak to it -- never bought it, won't be buying it in D&D5.Last I heard, Ravenloft was the new Shadowfell.  We had a little argument about whether Ravenloft was empirically more stupid a name than Shadowfell.  The name Ravenfell was bandied about and someone <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1679800548/ravenfell-28mm-fantasy-village" target="_blank">made a product</a> (and a boatload of money). 100%, for both its likelihood to be included and to disappoint hardcore fans.I'm with Morrus.  Shenanigans.  No way Mike Mearls doesn't know how to reach Weis and Hickman.  Closer to 50%, and only because of its popular history.Athas tends to... what?  You realize there have only /been/ two editions since it was launched, right?  Rich Baker was the driving force behind Dark Sun 4e, and he now works for Paizo.  I'm just saying 85% seems high.  60%, maybe, considering its recent popularity.My money is on a modified version of the treatment the planes got in D&D3, with some of the more logical aspects of the World Axis cosmology figured in.  Expect "Planescape" in the sense that the core setting has a scape of planes.  No razorvine or planar cant.  We might get a faction subclass or two.  100%, see also Ravenloft.I think Greyhawk's got the least chance of any of these settings to show up in hardback.  Nerath stole its lunch money.  Only one of them is going to leave the squared circle; do you really think it will be the one that was the token forgettable core setting that was only used in organized play two editions ago, or the one that all the new players know from the latest edition? 10%, and only because it is Greyhawk.  You left Nerath off this list, but I'd put it at close to 90%.Mystara is screwed by its age and the complete silence on the line for 20 years, but I am still hard-pressed to believe it's as screwed as Greyhawk.  I can see one nostalgia-driven hardback for the BECMI core setting.  50%.(Edited to remove Birthright)I lied about Greyhawk.  Nothing is as screwed as Birthright.  5%.Yeah, these are FR softbacks if they're anything.  Wizards doesn't own Rokugan anymore, FYI.  That was pretty short-lived.You might expect me to lump Spelljammer in with Ravenloft and Planescape, too, but Mearls has gone on record as saying that he feels like Spelljammer got short shrift and he would really like to see it developed into a setting in its own right, rather than just a transitive setting.  So if Spelljammer shows up, I would actually expect it to be /all about/ giff, giant space hamsters, and the Rock of Bral, and not cannibalized at all.  80%, because even though Mearls is the man in charge I'm not sure he can overcome all the obstacles in the way of making this a reality.</blockquote>

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