New WotC Campaign Setting

[Kobold Avenger]

While I would definately like to see Planescape come back, a campaign setting I'd like to see would be a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting (that isn't gamma world) with magic and fantasy elements rising from the ruins of a modern society.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

It's got enough history and detail without FR style overload where you can't do anything without going against a crappy novel or one of the 9879 sourcebooks.

Some people like a living, breathing game world like the Realms. Where things happen even without the players being involved.

It's not for everyone, though. It seems that wizards goes for the two extremes - one very thoroughly supported, one hardly - to cover everything.

 

[Felix]

Where things happen even without the players being involved.

It is a problem when this happens to the plot the PCs are trying to solve, though.

 

[smootrk]

Although I generally fear the onslaught of new books that a new setting would dangle in front of me, I would love to see mini-settings. Essentially, 1 nicely done (large page count) book that developes the bulk of the setting.

Of my hopes - SpellJammer, or Planescape.... but no, no, no, to a deluge of additional books... just one very nice one per setting for now.

 

[Klaus]

While I would definately like to see Planescape come back, a campaign setting I'd like to see would be a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting (that isn't gamma world) with magic and fantasy elements rising from the ruins of a modern society.

So... Thundarr?

 

[Felix]

So... Thundarr?

Sword of Shinnarra?

 

[GreatLemur]

the funny thing about planescape is that, really, we've still got it. 90% of it is edition non-specific fluff, and the remaining 10% is either scattered through the manual of the planes, planar handbook, etc. or can be put together easily enough.

This is true. Hell, I've played Planescape using Mutants & Masterminds. Worked pretty nicely, too. (I got to play a wizard's apprentice who was about 7/8ths clay golem, due to a nasty lab accident. I don't even want to think about the Level Adjustment needed to play a character like him in D&D.)

 

[3catcircus]

All I can say is...

GOD NO!

Not in reference to the idea of another official setting, mind you. I'm actually in favor of that. I meant GOD NO don't let it be greyhawk. I mean, I get it. Lots of nostalgia. Old setting. But y'know what? Greyhawk might as well be any other generic fantasy as far as I'm concerned, and I'd wager that goes for anyone else who doesn't hold the same nostalgia as other old timers do.

I'd like to see something more exotic. A ressurection of Planescape would be ideal in my mind, but I'd also like to see Dark Sun, Al'Qadim or Spelljammer. Or pretty much anything else that's fantasy with a twist... If they do start publishing a new campaign setting, I'd bet dollars to cents it would be an entirely new one as opposed to a ressurection of an old franchise, though. Like I said, I'm fine with that as long as it's not just midieval europe with elves.

If I wanted plain vanilla fantasy (and I don't), I'd pick up Forgotten Realms.

Interesting. Planescape and Spelljammer aren't really "campaign settings" in the sense that they are modular and can be "added on" to Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, or any other campaign setting.

Al Qadim is an add-on for Forgotten Realms and isn't a "campaign setting" in the same sense as I mentioned above.

Dark Sun, however, would be kinda cool as a rehashed "campaign setting."

Now, if they were to redo Greyhawk (and this is what they should have done with FR), they need to present information on before and after the WSEs. For Greyhawk, this means they need to describe the regions before and after the wars (i.e. I don't want to buy a "complete" campaign setting and then have to buy another "Greyhawk Wars" and "From the Ashes.")

 

[Set]

Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim and Greyhawk and maybe Mystara and Spelljammer would be my top choices for a single large hardcover 'FRCS' type book.

But unless they sell like hotcakes, I don't think these settings need a bunch of support books like 'Magic of' or 'Monsters of' or 'Races of' or 'Faiths of.'

Right up there with Al-Qadim, Greyhawk and Kara-Tur, I wouldn't mind seeing a WotC treatment of some third-party settings. A WotC reboot of Midnight or the Scarred Lands, could be interesting.

 

[3catcircus]

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.

I don't see Greyhawk as dull and boring, I see it as an empty canvas, waiting for me to start adding my brush strokes... Greyhawk (at least the original folios and boxed set) gives you just enough information to start filling in your own details. Of course, there are those of us who have wives, kids and jobs and adding this detail takes up too much time, so I also love FR since the details are pretty much there.