Rule of Three 6/13/2011: "semi-obscure but flavorful setting" in Dungeon and Dragon

[AbdulAlhazred]

I'll agree with that. Honestly if they are going to run a couple articles or series of articles on some old setting or other that seems cool to me. I'd guess a lot of it would likely be crunch anyway since people really interested in whatever it is probably have the original materials and don't need a ton of new fluff. I suppose it depends on how extensive the support is too. If they really want to do something along the lines of the old Known World support they had in Dragon way back when then they could pretty much include anything. If it is going to be a couple articles, gimme some crunch I can use.

I'd really hope more for a series of like 12 articles though. Really re-present the whole thing well.

 

[FreeXenon]

My first thought was Al Quadim, which would rock, but Birthright would be my second pick!

 

[Nahat Anoj]

My vote is Red Steel, which, admittedly, is probably at least a bit more obscure than "semi-obscure." My second guess is Birthright.

 

[keterys]

Yeah, I thought Red Steel was too obscure as well.

Hollow World is clearly necessary.

 

[Incenjucar]

I'd really hope more for a series of like 12 articles though. Really re-present the whole thing well.

I figure that anything that becomes popular enough will get continued support down the line.

 

[Mummolus]

Given the Elemental handbook coming up, I'm inclined to think it's Al Qadim. I'm pretty happy about that, too - it's not too dissimilar from Dark Sun, and the overlap would benefit both settings.

 

[phoffman]

Red Steel would be fun, but I don't imagine that as something on WoTC's table. I don't imagine Spelljammer either, although Spelljammer would be interesting if released as a few DnDinsider articles with optional vehicle combat rules.

Al-Qadim seems like a good candidate, but it is another desert setting. I think Kara-Tur is what we will likely get to see. There isn't much on the lines of Oriental settings in 4e yet and its pretty fertile ground.

 

[Incenjucar]

It's too bad so many of the settings are married to other settings... it would be interesting to have Maztica and Al'Qadim in a merged setting.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Hints have been dropped for Al-Qadim and for Kara-Tur recently. The "elemental heroes" book was possibly at one point going to contain shugenja and sha'ir rules.

My money'd be on Al-Qadim, since the "not direclty linked to FR" thing lets them avoid the whole clusterflub that is the Spellplague. Though, given that, people have been asking "WTF ABOUT MAZTICA!?!?!" for quite some time.

I'm certainly excited for whatever they choose, since I revel in new settings in general. However, I do hope they've been learning from their past foibles: you do not need to change the setting to shoehorn in 4eisms.

 

[caudor]

I was just thinking of older settings that never got official publication but were either implied in adventures (like the Thunder Rift setting for BD&D) or were released as free online supplements (like Mahasarpa). There's also Pellinore from Imagine magazine but AFAIK that was a fairly generic setting.

Al-Qadim and Birthright were pretty popular, I'd even say right behind Ravenloft & Planescape. Those don't strike me as "semi-obscure".

I'm thinking Thunder Rift too. Just a gut feeling.