The next 40$ 200-page hardcover fron WotC should be a . . .

[Ezrael]

Well, I ultimately bought Necropolis more for the Egyptian milleu than anything else, so if he was interested in writing it I'd buy it...

To be honest, I want to see Greyhawk get a FR style book. I've always prefered GH to FR, and since the folks at WOTC have been pushing the idea that Greyhawk is the default campaign setting, why the hell doesn't it have a spiffy new book? I know the Living Greyhawk book came out (I own it, it's pretty good, but it's not what I'm talking about here) but what I mean is something that would attempt to have the same kind of quality as the Scarred Lands Campaign book or Oriental Adventures, a book with all the information you need to run a GH campaign out of the gate. I realize I'm delusional expecting I'll ever see this.

For more general tomes, I'm behind the idea of an Arabic book or a Steampunk book. I think WOTC could learn a few things from Steve Jackson in this regard...well written general books that make running a homebrew game easier by giving you options. Of course, there's no reason you couldn't use GURPS books for D&D/d20 right now.

 

[Olive]

Why, none other than Mr. Gygax!

(above quote is on the arabian adventures book idea)

well... no ofense to Mr Gygax, but... I'm yet to be convinced he's into the sort of historically influenced ideas that I saw in OA... more of a mish mash kinda thing i think...

To be honest, I want to see Greyhawk get a FR style book. I've always prefered GH to FR, and since the folks at WOTC have been pushing the idea that Greyhawk is the default campaign setting, why the hell doesn't it have a spiffy new book? I know the Living Greyhawk book came out (I own it, it's pretty good, but it's not what I'm talking about here) but what I mean is something that would attempt to have the same kind of quality as the Scarred Lands Campaign book or Oriental Adventures, a book with all the information you need to run a GH campaign out of the gate. I realize I'm delusional expecting I'll ever see this.

i'd buy this in a second as well...

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Why, none other than Mr. Gygax!

I'll second that- and didn't Jeff Grubb, the Iron Horse of the gaming industry, write the orginal Al-Qadim: Arabian Adventures book? That book was fantastic- I'd love to see what he could do with a 3e Arabian Adventures book. It would be at the top of my to-buy list.

BTW: I know Grubb was fired in the WotC layoffs- but I haven't seen a book from him in awhile. What is he doing these days? (He's one of my favorite designers ever, and he wrote the best game-setting fiction novel I've ever read... not that that is saying much )

 

[Olive]

didn't Jeff Grubb, the Iron Horse of the gaming industry, write the orginal Al-Qadim: Arabian Adventures book? That book was fantastic- I'd love to see what he could do with a 3e Arabian Adventures book. It would be at the top of my to-buy list.

i believe so... and i think he'd be better than Gygax for that very reason...

of course, if Gary Gygax did write one, i'd almost definitely buy it!