D&D 4E So... is there a default 4e campaign setting?

[UltimaGabe]

Back in 3.x, the default campaign setting was Greyhawk (and the deities & named magic spells fit this).

Is this still the case in 4e? If not, what is the default campaign setting? Are there any maps and such available for it, or is 4e just supposed to be played Homebrew?

 

[Wepwawet]

Back in 3.x, the default campaign setting was Greyhawk (and the deities & named magic spells fit this).

Yeah, or so they used to say... I've never seen ANY Greyhawk stuff in 3.x. Ever!
Apart from those names you mention, on the DMG.
I never understood what where they thinking at WotC.

4E doesn't have a default campaign setting. What it has is a default campaign style, aka "Points of Light". It's nothing more than a set of assumptions about the world.

So, you either homebrew, or buy one of the published campaign settings.

Edit: Actually the default is also to create only what you need to play. That is, the places your PCs walk.
So, you're fine with the published adventures, too.

 

[Tale]

It's Points of Light, which is intended more as a framework than a fullblown setting. Which is why you'll not find any large maps. However, there's a region or two that do include maps, such as the map found in the back of the DMG that accompanies Fallcrest and ties in with the first Heroic Tier adventure book.

 

[DracoSuave]

Yeah, or so they used to say... I've never seen ANY Greyhawk stuff in 3.x. Ever!

Um, the first non-core book they ever put out for it, other than the Hero's Campaign Guide, was the Gazeteer.

Which was Grayhawk.

4E doesn't have a default campaign setting. What it has is a default campaign style, aka "Points of Light". It's nothing more than a set of assumptions about the world.

Not entirely true... there's set features introduced, locals and towns and such described in the adventures. Sigil, and elements of that setting are standard... it's not a fully fleshed out world, but it's a definate setting.

Just doesn't have a name.

So, you either homebrew, or buy one of the published campaign settings.

Edit: Actually the default is also to create only what you need to play. That is, the places your PCs walk.
So, you're fine with the published adventures, too.

Yeah, this.

 

[Antronach]

I don't think i've ever used anything but homebrew. I felt as if changing another for the sake of my story would be an insult to the writer. I used planescape back in the day but that was mostly b/c with infinite planes, i just threw in my own planes wherever i needed them. Kinda handy actually.

 

[Emirikol_Prime]

Since they've announced upcoming novels based in said setting, I'd say it will exist fairly soon.

 

[Wepwawet]

Um, the first non-core book they ever put out for it, other than the Hero's Campaign Guide, was the Gazeteer.

Which was Grayhawk.

Really? And "Gazetteer" was the name for the campaign guide?!

I've never seen it anyway. Probably because I've never played 3.0, and I only started playing 3.5 a couple years after the release...

 

[ourchair]

Most of my fellow players insist that the default setting is Greyhawk - based on the presence of multiple names and deities from Greyhawk - and it's actually kind of annoying, simply because they use it to extrapolate a number of assumptions about the world.

I agree with everyone else, it's its own setting built primarily from world assumptions (i.e. a past of fallen empires, a specific cosmology and a clear line drawn between civilization and the unexplored out there) with little else set in stone.

 

[lukelightning]

The default world is the World of Dungeons and Dragons, as seen in the cartoon series.

 

[UltimaGabe]

I've never seen it anyway. Probably because I've never played 3.0, and I only started playing 3.5 a couple years after the release...

It could also be that you saw it, you just don't remember it. It was, after all, the most boring book I've ever tried to read. Which really is a shame, because I tried to read it back when I was super-excited about Greyhawk, and could only muster through a couple chapters.