[SCOOP] Psionics 3.5, The New Setting, and Dark Sun!!

[Alzrius]

Yup, but it would hardly be considered a "Golden Age", except maybe for Rajaat and his band of genocidal followers.

Perhaps an option of setting it in the time before the Cleansing Wars...a Green Age campaign.

It certainly would be different, but not too different, we know that. Most of the standard races are still there...but halflings have already descended into barbarism. The only divine spellcasters are the elemental clerics and maybe some druids. Arcane spellcasting hasn't been invented (or maybe Rajaat has begun to teach preserving in public and defiling in secret, which he did long before the Cleansing Wars after he invented sorcery). And of course, psionics is big. People think of it the way characters in other settings think of magic. That would be an interesting campaign.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I coulda swore that one of the things TSR did wrong, according to the WotC brass, was branch out into a bunch of different settings, losing its focus, and making books that few people would buy, compared to more generic splats that were generally more useful to everyone and less campiagn-specific.

As I understand it, what killed TSR wasn't branching out into a bunch of different settings. It was trying to support a bunch of different settings all at once. They poached customers from each other.

If, however, WotC support one setting for a few years, then moves on to another for a few years, than another for a few years after that, they can avoid those problems. And if there's a lot of demand for further products in any of those past settings, they can always print them as needed.

 

[Staffan]

Perhaps an option of setting it in the time before the Cleansing Wars...a Green Age campaign.

It certainly would be different, but not too different, we know that. Most of the standard races are still there...but halflings have already descended into barbarism. The only divine spellcasters are the elemental clerics and maybe some druids.

Supposedly, druids were a lot more common back then. Earth Air Fire and Water (the DS splatbook for clerics, druids and to some extent templars) mentions that the sorcerer-kings killed off a lot of druids back in the day, which is why Dark Sun doesn't have the druidic society described in the 2e PHB (with Archdruids, Great Druids and Hierophants).

 

[Alzrius]

Yes...I vaguely recall something somewhere about some sort of druid purge going on. Thanks for the helpful reference Staffan!

 

[tleilaxu]

any updates on this scoop?

 

[Roman]

Yes!!!! Bring back Dark Sun! I have fallen in love with this setting immediately as I saw it, but unfortunately never got to play it as I moved away from my group. But now, if this turns out to be true...

 

[Roman]

Any news on this matter? Has WotC confirmed or denied the rumour or has it stayed silent?

 

[reiella]

WotC_Mark (Mark Jindra) has denied them.

Here: http://boards.wizards.com/rpg/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=123;t=004253

and here: http://boards.wizards.com/rpg/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=123;t=004236

 

[Roman]

That is a great pity.

 

[Goobermunch]

Everyone here seems to have decided that Keith Baker's new setting will be strongly based around psionics. I'd just like to point out that that rumor is based, in large part, on the fact that WotC's psionics survey appeared on the same day they announced that his campaign was selected.

That's some pretty tenuous support for the conclusions that have been drawn. Furthermore, Mr. Baker himself has suggested (intentionally vaguely, I'll admit) that his setting is not psionics heavy. See this thread for his statement.

I'd stand down a little bit before connecting the dots between Dark Sun, Bakersetting, and PsiH 3.5, since one of those dots might not be there.

--G