One setting per year?

[mhensley]

I've see mentioned that they will release one new setting per year. Considering that 4e will probably be around for 8 years, prehaps the release schedule will look something like this:

2008- Forgotten Realms
2009- Eberron
2010- Greyhawk
2011- Planescape
2012- Dragonlance
2013- Dark Sun
2014- Mystara
2015- Ravenloft

Of course, I doubt all of the old settings will make it to 4e and they will more likely publish a new one somewhere along the road.

 

[pogre]

I think new setting in 2010 and maybe Dragonlance in 2011.

The nice thing with points of light is that they can issue tons of mini campaign settings to fit almost every setting and still keep their word.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I doubt that they'll only do re-do's of old settings. Especially with the changes to the basic rules, I expect some new settings designed to take advantage of that.

 

[Alnag]

I expect Ravenloft or Dragonlance be the third one. It was the setting published by White Wolf/Sovereign Press for 3e, so it is possibly these settings will be renewed. Or the possibility is pretty higher than Dark Sun or Planescape or something...

 

[Khairn]

Rather than try to shoe-horn any other established settings into the PoL mold like they are doing with FR, I'm hoping that they release a new setting instead.

 

[fabneme]

I don't see Planescape being redone for 4E, especially with all the changes in the planes' scheme. Instead of Planescape, Father Fabneme predicts a brand new setting, incorporating the PoL concept in it's fullest.

 

[Abstraction]

Didn't WOTC sell the rights for Ravenloft?

How about a reimagining of SpellJammer?

 

[Nikosandros]

Greyhawk has a forum among the 4e settings on WotC boards. I assume this means that it's being strongly considered as a setting to be published.

 

[Greenfaun]

I also think we won't see the settings that weren't even updated to 3rd Ed. updated to 4th. So that leaves, what? Eberron, obviously, probably Greyhawk, although maybe not. Ravenloft is possible, but probably a low priority.

As for what I'd like to see, a new setting that takes advantage of the "Astral Sea" in the new cosmology to combine elements of Spelljammer and Planescape into some sort of "Sailing between the worlds to lands beyond imagination" sort of thing. As anyone who played Spelljammer can attest, combining D&D tropes with High Seas Adventure tropes with Sci-fi Space Opera tropes is badwrongfun and every geek should do it at least once.

Another thing I'd just love to see is Ravnica as a full-fledged (presumably high-powered) campaign setting. I mean, they already own the intellectual property, and sure the different magic would be an issue, but there are already 3rd-party versions of color-coded magic out there, surely WOTC could do it if they wanted to. It wouldn't be backwards-compatible with "real" D&D the way artificers were from eberron, which might be enough to prevent them from doing it, but I still think it'd be nice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Didn't WOTC sell the rights for Ravenloft?

They licensed it, and the license has expired.