Default PoL as a full setting?

[Ashrem Bayle]

One of the other threads got me thinking about the default PoL setting. By my own definition, a setting requires a minimum of a map and at least some history. We won't be getting that in the core books.

However, I'm thinking about taking the detials in the core books and fleshing out a full setting with it.

Anyone else considering doing the same?

 

[Serensius]

Already have. Or, me and my sister went over our various notes from 3+ years in the same loose-ish setting and canonized it, making a complete world map, fleshing out nations, tying in campaign happenings etc. Only after we had finished laying down the base work we realized that the setting was actually really appropriate for the default PoL-assumption.

When I get the DMG, I plan to look for any interesting locations mentioned that can be implemented into the setting, and also use the details to tweak the setting.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

However, I'm thinking about taking the detials in the core books and fleshing out a full setting with it.

Anyone else considering doing the same?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. I find it funny that some things that are showing up in previews are things I had in mind or had already 'blogged . . . traveling merchants in particular.

http://greyshad.blogspot.com/

 

[Ktulu]

I plan on beginning an entirely new homebrew campaign with 4e, and I will be using the ideas behind PoL throughout. I've spent the last few years playing in published worlds and I'd like a change of pace.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I think that PoL is a conceit rather than a setting. I think you get a village write up in the DMG, IIRC, but that is about it. So I don't think there will be anything published on a PoL setting in the foreseeable future.
Thankfully, it wont be much work for me to make my 3E campaign conform to PoL, all of my recent worlds have been about 25% nations 75% wilderness

 

[Rykion]

One of the other threads got me thinking about the default PoL setting. By my own definition, a setting requires a minimum of a map and at least some history. We won't be getting that in the core books.

However, I'm thinking about taking the detials in the core books and fleshing out a full setting with it.

Anyone else considering doing the same?

I've been planning on using the history and place names in the preview and core books to do this. Like I mentioned in the other thread, I think a short article with a map on DDI would be cool. I'm planning on using the H series of adventures, and a world map would help set up the campaign so I don't have to retcon the world as the adventures come out.

 

[Bold or Stupid]

I'm also already doing it, though I suspect some amount of monster re fluffing will be occurring. Crux is my setting and I'm planing on doing decent time gaps between campaigns so that the events can reshape the world some. The first two campaigns concern the fall of the Nerathi empire and then the fortunes of the city states in that area.

 

[Shemeska]

It pretty much already is a setting, given how it's going about changing some baseline assumptions, setting default origin stories for monsters (4e tieflings, etc), and describing a cosmology in the 4e MotP that is an assumed default tied to many of its "core" reconceptions and flavor text.

 

[The Little Raven]

It pretty much already is a setting, given how it's going about changing some baseline assumptions, setting default origin stories for monsters (4e tieflings, etc), and describing a cosmology in the 4e MotP that is an assumed default tied to many of its "core" reconceptions and flavor text.

So, this should put to rest any arguments that claim that 3e didn't have a full setting, as it included all of these things.

 

[JeffB]

One of the other threads got me thinking about the default PoL setting. By my own definition, a setting requires a minimum of a map and at least some history. We won't be getting that in the core books.

However, I'm thinking about taking the detials in the core books and fleshing out a full setting with it.

Anyone else considering doing the same?

Yes-minus Dragonborn and possibly Tieflings