I wish they'd just reboot.

[WhatGravitas]

I think this is essentially what they are doing with the new setting. A less funky, out-of-the-box, no knowledge required, generic fantasy setting.

For the generic setting... I think it's the best they can do. Crib iconic stuff, re-imagine it, make it a "Best of D&D"-setting, which they're currently doing.

For FR and GH: A reboot would've been great. Really. But for FR, they'd invalidate hundreds of novels - and hence alienate a bunch of readers, who have probably never touched a RPG - I understand their fear, and why they have chosen this route.

For GH: Well, I hope they do a GH reboot as their 2010 setting book.

For Eberron: Never needed a reboot, since there is no metaplot.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Hairfoot]

Personally, I'm looking forward to running campaigns into and through the Realms' spellplague. It's like a fantasy apocalypse. Cool bananas.

 

[Frostmarrow]

In my humble opinion Wizards should completely ditch all the game worlds. Boom! Gone.

Then Wizards should start over with points of light and start building intellectual property that is all around compatible. If they wanted they could slowly add the old stuff to the new environment.

I can't even imagine the hassle Wizards and their licensees must face when sorting ip in different settings and even time-periods whithin settings and sub-settings. It's crazy!

The setting is Dungeons and Dragons, for crying out loud!

 

[Ander00]

I don't know a lot about Greyhawk, so I can't comment on that. It seems to me like the whole point of playing in the Forgotten Realms is that there's the great number of novels and a wealth of other setting-specific material out already. Resetting it would never go over well with all its fans. Eberron on the other hand doesn't really have to gain much from a reboot.

And I have had a campaign running for a while now towards the end of which I had planned to introduce some changes to my homebrew setting, which so far seem to coincide with a good deal of what's coming in 4E (except that I still plan on having gnomes available as a player race after these events).


cheers

 

[Baby Samurai]

I would like them to freeze all timelines and let individual DMs progress the campaign setting.

I know you can do that anyway, but I don't like all these writers changing the basics of a campaign setting (Prism Pentad/Faction War etc).

 

[Green Knight]

They're creating a single pantheon for their new setting which is a mix of deities. And they're going through a god massacre in FR. Related? Perhaps. Don't know.

You don't know, so why not jump to all the wrong conclusions? But if it makes you feel better, it's not related. The Core Pantheon is NOT going to replace the Faerunian Pantheon. Yes, Bane is in it. So what? Tyr is also in the Asgardian Pantheon. Tiamat is in the Greyhawk Pantheon. Oghma and Silvanus are also part of other pantheons. So Bane wouldn't be the first god to hold a membership in more then one pantheon. It's not even a new thing for Bane, anyway. He's also worshipped in Ravenloft, where the only other Forgotten Realms god is Lathander.

It's perhaps improbable that they would try to standardize all of the gods. But they still need to go through a "Time of Troubles" like period again to explain the 4e changes. I think they shouldn't bother.

I agree on that count. There's no need to kill off Mystra for good to explain away the magic changes. And why kill Helm, and embroil him and Tyr in that stupid love triangle with Tymora? It's idiotic. But whatever the case, it doesn't matter, as Pelor, Boccob, Vecna, and Obad-Hai aren't gonna suddenly appear in Faerun.

 

[Drowbane]

I don't have any particular need to DM by numbers.

If I don't like an event presented in TSR/WotC's timeline, it didn't happen in my campaign (or not as presented).

My favorite 2e Campaign ran roughly five years and ended with events during the Time of Troubles (with little to no focus on TSR's storyline, and by canon, 2e FR started with the Time of Troubles.

My point?

Spoiler

Hell if I know... I just woke up.

I guess it is that everything the DM has access to (regardless of System) is a toolbox, use what you like to build your vision.

 

[KingCrab]

If Pelor does poke his head into FR I hope Lathander decks him.

 

[helium3]

It's not that they're doing a reboot of any particular setting. It's that the new PHB (and presumably the other two books) are going to contain more flavor material than previous editions have contained. Things like racial histories that describe people, places and events and this flavor material won't generally mesh well with the flavor content of either the greyhawk or FR settings.

In a sense, they're creating a new setting, the land of Generika. Or, as it's called in the ancient tongue, Forgotten Greybberon.

 

[howandwhy99]

Isn't Forgotten Realms getting a total reboot? I like FR and it sounds like everyone else can too soon without having to read 100's of books or memorizing the recent FR history book.