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I would be very on board with what you've outlined.I've got absolutely no solid evidence this is what they're going to do other than my gut feeling and extrapolating from the various interviews and Q&As going on.
I would be very on board with what you've outlined.I've got absolutely no solid evidence this is what they're going to do other than my gut feeling and extrapolating from the various interviews and Q&As going on.
How about - publish a setting guide, and possibly setting monster book. Then publish a single adventure guide that contains (a) one full length adventure (b) a handful of encounters (c) several extensive but undeveloped plot summaries and (d) a bunch of one-sentence plot hooks, all of which are specifically chosen because they evoke the feel/experience of the setting. No adventure from the Planescape book should be just as easily published in the Ravenloft book, for example.
I would like Mystara, Spelljammer, Planescape, Dark Sun, and Greyhawk.
The problem is that you need adventures to support the settings.
What you described is pretty much how Dark Sun was handled for 4th Edition: World Book, Monster Book, Adventure. I wonder how it went over (as far as sales & reception) inside WOTC?
Not very well from the looks of things. They had a perfect release cycle that they completely threw out after about two years because something was seriously not working in sales. They were supposed to do Ravenloft for 4e, but it all got scrapped and they went with the Essentials release pattern and all the work that had been done on Ravenloft got pushed into Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond instead.
Wait, what? Mystara isn't a licensed setting. That intellectual property belongs entirely to WotC.Mystara (if they still have the license)
They really don't have anything in common, do they? Would you combine mythic Greece and Vikings in an European book or Celts and Seminole in an Atlantic Ocean themed book?Why not combine Al-Qadim and Kara-Tur into one big "Asia"-themed book?
Wait, what? Mystara isn't a licensed setting. That intellectual property belongs entirely to WotC.
They really don't have anything in common, do they? Would you combine mythic Greece and Vikings in an European book or Celts and Seminole in an Atlantic Ocean themed book?![]()
I think you may be confusing Blackmoor with Mystara.I thought I remember reading somewhere Arneson got the rights back sometime around the end of TSR. Might be misremembering something.
I think you may be confusing Blackmoor with Mystara.
Glad to hear that WoTC may be approaching other setting designers!
In addition to the Forgotten Realms, The 5 setting i'd like to see would be;
Greyhawk
Dragonlance
Eberron
Dark Sun
Mystara
With expansion options including;
Nentir Vale (as default setting)
Planescape (as Manuals of the Plane supplement)
Spelljammer (as Manuals of the Plane supplement)
Ravenloft (as Shadowfell supplement)
Maztica (as Forgotten Realms supplement)
Kara-Tur (as Forgotten Realms supplement)
Al-Quadim (as Forgotten Realms supplement)
... yes? Greece, Vikings, and Medieval Europe *IS* D&D in every sense of the word... to me, anyway.They really don't have anything in common, do they? Would you combine mythic Greece and Vikings in an European book or Celts and Seminole in an Atlantic Ocean themed book?![]()