"Points of Light" setting - will there ever be a book?

[Mercurius]

I'm still unsure whether Wizards of the Coast plans on releasing a campaign sourcebook for the default "points of light" setting. I was under the impression that they weren't, but instead gradually--and only lightly--develop it through supplements so that everything can be easily transplanted to homebrew campaigns. Yet it seems this is no different than Greyhawk in the past--that no matter how much they develop the setting, or whether they release an actual sourcebook, it won't impact "translation" one bit.

To put it another way, I don't see why they wouldn't release a setting book, at least eventually (when there is sufficient material to cobble it together, say a few years down the line after dozens of supplments and Dragon articles have fleshed it out).

So what do you think? Will Wizards eventually release a setting sourcebook or not? And if not, why not? If so, when do you think it will come out?

 

[questing gm]

In 3.0, the only 'setting' book that IIRC we ever got for the 'default' setting (ie; Greyhawk) was the [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Gazetteer-Dungeons-Dragons-Gary-Holian/dp/0786917423"]D&D Gazetteer[/ame]. Everything else were found in bits and pieces in the splats, core books etc. and were never really compiled together into one book. I don't think they are going to switch that model of 'setting development' now that it has become more generic (they haven't even given it a proper name yet! )

Which to me felt like a pity. I first knew about Greyhawk and that it was the default setting for 3.x and waited for a proper 'setting' book to tell me more about it. I was kept waiting until in the end, I knew it was never coming. So I bought the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting instead.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The original intention seemed to keep Points of Light "vague" enough to not feel suitable for a setting book. But as more details are added in supplements, adventures and dragon magazine articles, there might be a point where a real setting book seems feasible. It might not be what WotC have planned originally, but it could still happen eventually. It might also depend on the player demand for this...

 

[questing gm]

In the meantime, you can go through the compilation HERE

 

[Morrus]

In the meantime, you can go through the compilation HERE

or here: http://www.enworld.org/wiki/index.php/Points_of_Light

 

[Asmo]

or here: http://www.enworld.org/wiki/index.php/Points_of_Light

This way leads to the eating of Cookies.

Asmo

 

[renatoram]

As said over and over "Point of light" is not a setting, but a design style: a setting that is not completely defined, with large areas left to define and explore by the players.

If you mean the "implied setting" of 4E, which is one of the possible PoL settings, I dunno, I don't think wotc really wants to publish it.

 

[Staffan]

In 3.0, the only 'setting' book that IIRC we ever got for the 'default' setting (ie; Greyhawk) was the D&D Gazetteer.

There was also the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer.

 

[Mercurius]

As said over and over "Point of light" is not a setting, but a design style: a setting that is not completely defined, with large areas left to define and explore by the players.

If you mean the "implied setting" of 4E, which is one of the possible PoL settings, I dunno, I don't think wotc really wants to publish it.

Understood. But until WotC antes up with a name for that "implied setting," folks are going to continue calling it "Points of Light" (which is obviously a lame setting name, but what other choice is there? "Defaultia?").

 

[hong]

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