New WotC Campaign Setting

[Jakar]

Please, no more releases for Greyhawk. To me it is the beige of settings, very dull and boring. I have no idea why they keep it as the standard setting at all.

Concentrate on Eberron or Forgotten Realms please, because to me at least, they are the better settings.

Please note that this is just my humble opinion.

 

[Dross]

Another thing to remember is that Eberron is only just over 2 years old, but FR is 2.5 EDITIONS old. (the epic feel that someone else mentioned).

Given the style of follow up books for Eberron that have come out, it's likely that Eberron will be fleshed out similar to FR as much as possible with supplimental books (Races, Deities, Places etc).

That alone may keep WOTC away from a new fully supported setting for a while.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I feel for the Greyhawk enthusiasts out there, but I don't think that two fully supported vanilla fantasy settings would be a good choice. Beyond those completionists, not to many people would want to buy all the additions for both the Realms and Greyhawk. They would stick with one.

Sure, some people have personal problems with the Realms, don't like it for this reason or that, so they might return to Wizards if they were to sell stuff with a Greyhawk logo in it, but I don't think that those are too many.

So Wizards would put out twice as many books as before, but they wouldn't sell twice as many. Not even close.

I think Greyhawk makes for a decent standard campaign setting, with all D&D books that aren't specific to one of their two campaign settings being somewhat Greyhawkish, but I don't think they'll blow it up to a fully supported campaign setting when they already have the Realms as vanilla fantasy.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

Personally, I would prefer to see WOTC keep doingthe bigger adventures like Red Hand of Doom that is practically a setting in itself. To me, if an adventure can take you through 10 or so levels, it will be a campaign world in all but name, as whwn it is done, it is easy to say that it was fun and move on to another adventure.

 

[Hussar]

If and when they release a new setting, I truly, truly hope that it's a NEW setting. While I can appreciate that people like this or that setting, for the most part, old settings have so much baggage attached to them that trying to rerelease and update an existing setting is a virtually impossible task.

Look at all the vitriol over something like FC1. Every time there's anything to do with the planes released, all I see are people talking about how they did it wrong and ignored this or that tiny detail from some supplement fifteen years ago.

Naw, out with the old and in with the new.

 

[Xyanthon]

I'd like to see Planescape again.

 

[Infernal Teddy]

I'd love to have a 3.5 Oriental Adventures with kara-Tur inside...

 

[Li Shenron]

I think many settings mentioned have some problem:

Greyhawk is too generic to be able to generate a line of books. Basically Monsters of Greyhawk is pretty much the MM, races of Greyhawk is the PHB etc... A campaign setting book with history, regions and NPCs could work, but after that there is only regional books, which are attractive to aficionados but I doubt they would sell very much. And for non-aficionados... why choosing Greyhawk when Forgotten Realms can never be reached as amount of books available.

Planescape shouldn't have been touched with a "bastard" product like Planar Handbook, because now to make a Planescape campaign setting book would mess up a lot.

Al-Qadim would be perfect, but I often think that it was never published in 3.x to avoid potential problems due to the fear of terrorism. I know, no one serious would be concerned with a RPG game, but there are a lot of non-serious persons too around. I think this would be discouraged by any marketing branch.

Maybe they'll consider something new. For instance, something with pirates and firearms, taking advantage from the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter.

 

[lrsach01]

Why does it have to be a "fully supported" campaign setting? Why not some one off books? If a setting really takes off, supplements could be issued. What's the big deal?

 

[Ghendar]

The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting was released in June 2001.

Try 1987