Nentir Vale: Is it official?

[Obryn]

I did what many others have done and dropped the Vale into my homebrew map, way up in the northwest corner.

It works very well for that.

-O

 

[crazyred]

I'd love to see that map, Obryn. If you have it scanned, maybe you could post it here?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/251294-mapping-nentir-vale.html

I'm very slowly trying to do the same thing. I need a homeland for my halflings, and supposedly there's a hobbit-town way downriver from Fallcrest.
D&D Doodle

 

[Khairn]

What's nice about it in some ways is that I can create one setting using the disparate locations and stories and you can create another, and they both will be unique. I dunno if the individual pieces model of a campaign world that 4e uses is better or worse than than the large frame that you had to fill in your details that at least 3e followed, but I find that it works for me.

Of course the down side of WotC's policy regarding setting is that if you don't have time to create "your own PoL" from the various peices they've thrown out, you won't see a 4E world that isn't a re-con of a 3E or earlier setting. Some GM's and players might not have a problem with that, but others may not enjoy the re-imagining of familiar lands.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Of course the down side of WotC's policy regarding setting is that if you don't have time to create "your own PoL" from the various peices they've thrown out, you won't see a 4E world that isn't a re-con of a 3E or earlier setting.

Not yet, no. But the folks at WotC have suggested that one of the upcoming "yearly" settings may well be a new creation for 4E, rather than something brought back from prior editions.

 

[JeffB]

I took the ball and ran with it as regards to the Nentir Vale- I changed a few things to suit my own...err..more grognard ways? ...but I've had fun using this area- it reminded me of opening up the Cook/Marsh expert book for the first time and reading about "The Known World"- short on detail, big on inspiration.

I like seeing bits and pieces of it in WOTC products but frankly I hope it never becomes a full fledged/fully supported setting.

 

[hailstop]

That said, you can get a long way towards creating a campaign world by using the published material so far - ie the Dragon articles, DMG information and info pulled from H1, H2 & H3.

Admittedly you won't have an overall campaign map, nor a deep and immersive history, nor will you have everything you'd want if you'd written it yourself. But you will have a lot of great locations that can be planted wherever you want, you'll have a lot of history (although you might need to put it all together in a way that makes sense) and you've got plot hooks galore for your own games.

So, no, there's no official '4e campaign setting'. There is, however, a vast amount of information available that you can build one from.

It's basically Mystara before the Gazeteers came out.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Of course the down side of WotC's policy regarding setting is that if you don't have time to create "your own PoL" from the various peices they've thrown out, you won't see a 4E world that isn't a re-con of a 3E or earlier setting. Some GM's and players might not have a problem with that, but others may not enjoy the re-imagining of familiar lands.

As Ari said, just because there may never be an official "core" setting from whence came Bael Turath, Arkhosia, Nerath, et cetera, doesn't mean that there will be never be a new setting from Wizards of the Coast. They just don't intend to flesh out the Fourth Edition's "core setting" beyond a few local maps and a bunch of references to past events and fallen polities.

 

[Jack99]

Not yet, no. But the folks at WotC have suggested that one of the upcoming "yearly" settings may well be a new creation for 4E, rather than something brought back from prior editions.

That would be great.

 

[Mouseferatu]

That would be great.

Yep. While there are several old settings I'd love to see adapted to 4E--*coughDarkSunAlQadimcough*--I would indeed love to see (and be part of) a brand new, ground-up 4E setting.

 

[CapnZapp]

To be honest, I think there are so many old campaign worlds which would be great to see reimagined for 4E I have no need for yet-another-fantasy-hash.

If WotC were to start considering existing fantasy licenses for their new worlds, then perhaps...

But I think there are enough half-baked worlds as it is.

Bringing back worlds like Dark Sun and Birthright (complete with a Domain subsystem) are a much higher priority for me!