I'd love to see Mystara 4e

[Hussar]

4e Immortals rules. I could get behind that. It would certainly be a pretty radical change for settings. I can't think of another setting in D&D where ascension is a realistic goal for PC's.

Hrm, could tie nicely with Steven Erikson's works as well, if you were looking for inspiration.

 

[Mika]

4e Immortals rules. I could get behind that. It would certainly be a pretty radical change for settings. I can't think of another setting in D&D where ascension is a realistic goal for PC's.

Hrm, could tie nicely with Steven Erikson's works as well, if you were looking for inspiration.

On the other hand, there is a pretty good mapping between the epic destinies in the 1st PHB and the 4 PC paths to Immortality:

Archmage :: Paragon
Deadly Trickster :: Epic Hero
Demigod :: Dynast
Eternal Seeker :: Polymath

Of course, given the available epic destinies now, there is no longer any obvious mapping for all of them. Still -- the clear goal of the Demigod epic destiny is divine ascension, so the main conflict between Mystara's paths to Immortality and the myriad 4E epic destinies is that becoming an Immortal or deity is just one of many possible epic ambitions in 4E.

But I must admit that I would be curious to see how somebody creates level 31+ tiers for Immortals....

 

[pawsplay]

While I tend to think of 4e in terms of simply "not for me," I think 4e Mystara might poke my inner child a little. On the one hand, the overall setting (high fantasy, points of light, gradually more powerful PCs that scrape demigodhood) works pretty fine. The elemental titans and giants fit in well with the strong elemental focus and the idea of immortals as individual beings of vast power rather than as nearly omnipotent deities.

But conversely, there are no tieflings in Mystara. Indeed, there are no devils (diaboli are humanoids from the Nightmare dimension) and demons are rather different (Demogorgon and the other demons are the Entropy Immorals rather than typical monsters). Mystara has a unique cosmology, and Law-Neutrality-Chaos is the primary alignment axis (rather than Good-Neutral-Evil, as in Greyhawk). Paladins are traditionally rather different in Mystara (Lawful fighters with some clerical powers, not super-blessed guys on supernatural mounts). So unless they rewrote Paladin as a Lawful defender and treated tieflings and devas as rarities, I would find the rewrite a little perturbing.

Mystara, unlike most of the AD&D mainstream settings, had nothing resembling a Dantean Hell. The cosmology was more akin to Norse and Greek myth with a heavy dose of Moorcock.