No buzz for the 2011 Campaign Setting?

[Hawkeye]

Helzon, I could actually see something like that too. One of the smaller cities or maybe something in the Dales.

Hawkeye

 

[sappire07]

im hoping for dragonlance or an entirely new one

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

What we want, and what we think might happen need not to be the same thing. That said, I do wish they would make PoLands into a real setting. But I am fairly easy to please, so unless they make Spelljammer or Dragonlance, I think I might be tempted to buy it.

Well, personally I'm not that much of a fan of making PoL into a full setting. The problem with that is then you have a situation where everything has to fit together into one big totally consistent whole and the GAME becomes about supporting the 'core setting'. I gotta admit in some sense PoL has grown to a point where that may be almost moot, but still it is nice that at least in principle there's not a single world that everything has to fit into.

Of course, as you said, that has little to do with what will actually happen. I can certainly see where the temptation is for rolling out a true PoLand setting. OTOH what would you put into it? If it is the 'official core setting' then isn't anything you would drop into it actually a core part of the game? I mean it would never be released in the sort of format that DS or Eberron is. Any rules released for it would be part of the 4e core stuff, any monsters, any classes, etc. So really releasing these gazetteers actually seems like as close as it makes sense to come. Sort of a stealth setting. Whether they count that as the 2011 setting is a whole other question. Whether people consider said situation to be not releasing a 2011 setting becomes largely semantics.

 

[renau1g]

I second (or third?) that they will hopefully use one of the ones from the campaign search that netted Eberron. I believe they bought the rights for all the finalists (correct?) and Eberron is fantastic, I hope that one of the others were just under Eberron in awesome-ness to develop.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I second (or third?) that they will hopefully use one of the ones from the campaign search that netted Eberron. I believe they bought the rights for all the finalists (correct?) and Eberron is fantastic, I hope that one of the others were just under Eberron in awesome-ness to develop.

Sort of seems to me though if you want an outside designed setting like that why not just have a new contest? It has been 10 years. Tastes change and the reasons for selecting the 3 winners 10 years ago might not be as applicable today. Also IIRC the submissions were more outlines than anything else, it's not like they are fleshed out settings.

Maybe Enworld should have a contest.

 

[renau1g]

Well, it would be quite the cost to administer the new contest I'd imagine. Tastes change, but people still play Greyhawk after how many years?

 

[Shroomy]

IMO, they may have bought those settings, but I don't think they've sat on them for 5-6 years. Their best ideas have probably already been re-purposed; for example, the Aerenal elves were originally from Rich Burlew's setting.

 

[Mengu]

I think 4e deserves it own setting. Upgrading existing setting is all well and fun, but I'm itching for something new, something I can open the cover and read page after page of wonder.

I also wouldn't mind a shift in setting period. I realize Dark Sun does this going back in time, and Eberron does a good bit of this going forward, but going forward even more into the modern realm where certain technological (or technomagical) discoveries have been made, would be interesting.

There is also a lot that can be borrowed from sci-fi, gate travel between worlds, parallel universes, techno gods, etc.

I'm not really looking for originality, that's a tough order, but I'd love to see something new that's at least a little unorthodox.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I think 4e deserves it own setting. Upgrading existing setting is all well and fun, but I'm itching for something new, something I can open the cover and read page after page of wonder.

I also wouldn't mind a shift in setting period. I realize Dark Sun does this going back in time, and Eberron does a good bit of this going forward, but going forward even more into the modern realm where certain technological (or technomagical) discoveries have been made, would be interesting.

There is also a lot that can be borrowed from sci-fi, gate travel between worlds, parallel universes, techno gods, etc.

I'm not really looking for originality, that's a tough order, but I'd love to see something new that's at least a little unorthodox.

In this day and age though what in the world of RPGs at large is really unorthodox? I mean we've had settings/systems that cover pretty much every SF concept imaginable from steampunk (space 1889) to space opera (Traveller, MANY others) to trans-humanist techno-fantasy (Eclipse Phase, etc.). We've had post apocalyptic settings of every imaginable variation from Gamma World to Aftermath and beyond. Fantasy settings have a pretty huge range too. I'm sure you can find a combination of elements and whatnot that is not EXACTLY the same as stuff that has come before, but its hard to imagine that they can do anything REALLY unorthodox at this point.

 

[Scribble]

The old Basic D&D Gazetteers were some of my favorite all time RPG products... So if the new PoL gazetteers are anywhere near as cool- I will gladly take no new setting in favor of these!