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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 5459380" data-attributes="member: 30022">Tough question. Here's what I voted, and why...Settings I didn't choose:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mystara/Hollow World/Red Steel (all Mystara, really): Sadly, there is nothing that WotC could put out that wouldn't be seen as a disappointment by the Mystara grognards. The Mystara Gazzeteers are hundreds (thousands?) of pages of fluff and detail on this setting, and they're largely system-agnostic. We don't really need 4e Mystara, just like we didn't need 2e or 3e Mystara. Further, I'd be the first to admit that a modern take would just come off a little bit hokey: "So, yeah, the Arabian desert culture lives next to the Norse Vikings. The Romans are directly south of that. The Native Americans and the Mongols are just west of the Vikings. You've got the Scottish liches living with the French wizards, and they're just north of the Italians. The Indians are slightly west of them..."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Al-Qadim: They're not going to do another desert setting so soon after Dark Sun, despite the thematic differences.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Krynn: Nothing WotC could do here would satisfy the angry masses. Roll it back to the War of the Lance, and ignore the masses of history since? Stay with the current timeline, and the massive confusion of Krynn-shaking events over the last 200 years? Roll it forward 100 years? There is no satisfactory answer that would both attract new players (simplified world-view) and allay the fears of the experienced.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Greyhawk: See Krynn, above. Plus, and I hate to say it given my love of the setting, it's just too generic. Where's the hook? Nostalgia, sure. But really, it's not Dark Sun or Eberron. It's a traditional fantasy setting.</li> </ul>What DID I vote for?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Planescape: More out of love for the setting, than a belief that they should do it. There is already much planar information provided in 4e (three hardbacks, so far). We already have a wealth of 2e Planescape splatbooks that can be adapted to either 3e or 4e (or Pathfinder, or anything else). It really doesn't need to be re-done as a setting. However, my love for Planescape is so strong that I'd still buy anything... anything... that WotC released for the setting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ravenloft: Probably the best choice out of the remaining nostalgia settings. It brings something new to the game - horror, terror, multiple highly evocative villains, constrained dominions with difficulties in traveling between them, tarot cards, etc. There is plenty of mechanical content that can be updated to 4e. Also, there will be less resistance towards either rolling back the setting or providing a new take on it. The Ravenloft domains have always been quite independent. You can shake them up or drop some of them without really hurting the setting as a whole.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nentir Vale: They already have a good basis; it should be easy to expand out the setting. Plus, I buy into the argument that Nentir Vale is the New Mystara. The Vale feels very like Karameikos used to feel - you've got some woods over here, and there's a Keep on the Borderlands, and some goblins live here... Expanding out the Nentir Vale campaign world could "feel" very similar to what the old Expert Rules and X1 - Isle of Dread did for Karameikos.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New Mass Market Setting: The Hobbit (future movie tie-in), Mass Effect or Fallout (using updated Gamma World ruleset), etc. I voted for this simply because I believe it's good for the hobby. It will attract new (younger?) players, which is always good for the longevity of role-playing in general.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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