New WotC Campaign Setting

[Stormborn]

Something a lot of people seem to miss when discussing these settings is that they are not "nostalgia" for everyone. And "We" don't have 90% of Planescape's fluff (or any other setting, I am just picking that one since it was mentioned before). Its not the current edition and while yes it is available on E-bay etc. if you really want to go looking for it, lots of people dont. WotC reintroducing old settings would likely play on nostalgia for lots of people, but is that most of their customer base? How many of them even know that there used to be such settings for DnD? Of those who do how many would ever buy a book for a system that is not current?

I would like to see an Arabian Adventures setting and it might as well be Al-Quadim which, except for a article or two in Dragon over the last 3-4 years, I have never seen. My only exposure to Spelljammer is the Poly version. The point is some of its is not people saying "I want to see my favorite setting in print", its people who have never seen, only heard, of these setting and are thinking "I would like a setting that focuses on the Planes/DnD in Space/Arabian Fantasy/Asian Fantasy/etc." and we simply use the pre-existing names for them.

 

[LostWorldsMike]

Just to add my voice to the din...

I would LOVE to see a One-Book Settings line. Yes indeed. As someone else already said, if it seemed interesting, I'd buy it just to read.

 

[Kesh]

I liked Red Steel. I would like to see it come back. Anyone know of a d20 fansite for Red Steel?

Unfortunately, no. They had a tiny section on the Mystara fansite, but even that was anemic. I'd considered running one of my own, but I'm really not a webmaster.

 

[Snotlord]

FR offers all the "fully supported" setting material I'll ever need, so I'd say go for one shots or nice adventure hardcovers.

Greyhawk would be nice to see what all the fuss is about, but Birthright would be my favorite of the 2e settings.

 

[Knightfall]

If they revived Planescape or DarkSun *drool*, this would be a great idea. Otherwise, scrap it.

Dark Sun doesn't need to be revised, when The Burnt World of Athas has such a great revision already.

Official Releases

Rules Material
Dark Sun 3
Terrors of Athas (monsters I)
Terrors of the Dead Lands (monsters II)
Wizard's Spell Compendium
Prestige Class Appendix Volume I
Advanced Beings (Dragons)
Advanced Beings (Avangions)
Champion of Rajaat (template)

Setting Material
City State of Draj
Villages of the Wastes
Wisdom of the Drylanders

Adventures
Tyrian Conspiracy
Whispers of the Storm
- A companion adventure to City State of Draj.
Dregoth Ascending

 

[GreatLemur]

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.

See, I'd like a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting that started out as generic fantasy, and ended up some kind of weird alternative fantasy. Admittedly, that's kind of what Dark Sun is, but the focus there isn't usually on how the world has changed so much as that the way the world is and how tough it is to survive. I'd like something where a world more or less like the Forgotten Realms (although probably all of one race) goes through some big, world-changing catalysm--like a planar conjunction made worse by magical meddling, which then allows invasions from multiple other dimensions, screws up the fundamental nature of magic in a few ways, and introduces powerful and dangerous artifacts and materials from alien worlds. The resulting setting would be a broken world that remembers (probably through very rose-tinted accounts) its past glories, that's now full of weird crap that's alternately terrible and wonderful, and it slowly putting itself back together in some strange new shape (the exact nature of which is subject of much conflict). Semi-dark, but optimistic.

 

[GreatLemur]

Ravenloft is pretty close to being generic. It emphasizes horror and dark fantasy enough that it usually avoids being called generic, though. Personally, I'd just as soon call it generic.

I dunno; that's a pretty tough case to make. If I recall correctly, it's got a higher tech level than typical fantasy, and I think divine magic is either non-existant or screwed up in some manner. And, of course, there's no inter-planar stuff, which prevents a lot of basic magic from working. And I think magic and non-human races are widely distrusted. And the bad guys (the really bad guys) pretty much rule the world. There's a lot more going on with Ravenloft than just its tone.

 

[GeorgeFields]

I like the idea of a single core hardcover for all of the old settings. Ravenloft & Dragonlance have been done through licensing so, they can be skipped. If some of them sold really well, they could do additional support or find someone willing to support it through license.

 

[BOZ]

I'll throw an idea into the pot.

Why not produce a book called Complete Worlds or something that contains an overview and 3.5 crunch for the most popular settings from the past - prestige classes, unique critters, an index of suitable monsters from the MMs, etc. A bit like the occassional Campaign Classic Dragon issues, but covering the more fundamental stuff.

They could include Planescape, Dark Sun, Al Quadim, etc. Heck, include Greyhawk too as a 3.5 update and everyone would be happy. Lay it out like Tome of Magic so the sections are colour coded. I liked that.

Add in a section about how to create your own gameworld (restricting classes to certain races, how magic works, etc) and something about world hopping, and you'll have a book I bet every single GM will want in their collection.

What you think?

i've suggested a thing like this before. while several people told me that it would be totally awesome, quite a few others told me "uh uh, no way in hell is that ever going to happen." so, who knows, time changes things, maybe it would work better now than it would have then?

 

[rgard]

Sword of Shinnarra?

They did that in the Dragon awhile back. It was during the 3.0 days.

Thanks,
Rich