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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 4475338" data-attributes="member: 871">Well, if this is how a 4e Greyhawk will manifest, then, IMO, I think it's a good idea, esp. if the mantra for published settings is 2 books (campaign guide, player's guide), and perhaps modules, with online articles/support otherwise.  Tossing out the metaplot of past editions isn't a bad thing in this case, IMO.  (Then again, the metaplot of FR drove me away from that setting.)Then again, I'm curious as to how Dragonlance's 4e incarnation will come about.  I wonder if it'll be reinvented along the lines of FR, esp. with it's massive canon due to the novels & whatnot.  As it is, it's already had severe shake-ups due to it's stint with the SAGA card system.  I have to wonder if it may face a significant time-jump much as FR did, in order to have a "clean" setting for RPG campaigns (without the Sword of Damocles-like threat of canon looming over the setting with each new novel written).I think that the (relative) lack of novels & the like set in Greyhawk makes it much more plausible to just rollback the setting to an earlier era, esp. when compared to the sheer # of canon-approved novels & stories written about FR and DL.Now, as Henry mentioned, there's 2 setting competition finalist settings that are available for use.  Then again, wasn't some material from those 2 settings used in some degree for Eberron?  I thought that this was mentioned at some point (and, if so, it could be why those settings weren't developed: some core concepts of them could have already been incorporated into Eberron).</blockquote>

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