New WotC Campaign Setting

[rgard]

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.

I agree with that. If I was publishing them I would put new classes, new spells and new prcs in the book to get the non-DM types to purchase as well.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Odhanan]

The One-Book Settings line idea is interesting indeed!
I'd surely invest.

 

[mythusmage]

Eberron 2nd Edition

The Eberron campaign setting done with the assistance of a demographer and a cartographer.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

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.

This is exactly why I don't own any FR books. Because I'd have to buy thirty of them. I've played with FR people before. The canon is unassailable and unbelievable. With Greyhawk I can mess around with canon willy-nilly and nobody bats an eye. If I were to run FR and try to work my own material in, it would cause heads to explode.

And I don't want exploding heads in my living room.

I'd like one Greyhawk hardcover, and nothing else. An expanded and 3.5-updated version of the LGG, with colour interiors and a fold-out poster map.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

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.

Earthdawn.

 

[bastrak]

I would like a Greyhawk campaign setting HB and a decent level of support.

I can't say I'm really interested in any of the other old settings returning or a brand new setting.

 

[Razz]

If they wanted a vote on what setting to return to 3E, I'd say Planescape.

Not only do I like Planescape for its own unique flavor, but I like the fact it ties the other worlds/settings/cosmologies together. And, of course, you'll never run out of space or ideas for Planescape material.

 

[pawsplay]

They could come out with a new setting, but past experiences suggest that Deities of Whisper Gnomes of Eberron is probably both more likely and more profitable. People get attached to settings, and it takes a lot to squeeze them dry. I never liked FR that much, but it's still bringing in tons of money for WotC.

 

[3catcircus]

This is exactly why I don't own any FR books. Because I'd have to buy thirty of them. I've played with FR people before. The canon is unassailable and unbelievable. With Greyhawk I can mess around with canon willy-nilly and nobody bats an eye. If I were to run FR and try to work my own material in, it would cause heads to explode.

And I don't want exploding heads in my living room.

I'd like one Greyhawk hardcover, and nothing else. An expanded and 3.5-updated version of the LGG, with colour interiors and a fold-out poster map.

No reason why FR can't be as open as you want, either. In the campaign I run, I pretty much ignore anything/everything from the novels to make the world conform to my vision.

 

[GeorgeFields]

No reason why FR can't be as open as you want, either. In the campaign I run, I pretty much ignore anything/everything from the novels to make the world conform to my vision.

Agreed, but too many people think changing anything published is sacrilage. I ran a realms game years ago during the height of 2e. One of the players was not only a rules lawyer, but a setting lawyer as well. There where many arguments because I didn't take novels and the newest supplement into account. It's a real pain in the ass when the group is searching for a specific NPC from a book that you've never heard of and won't let it drop.