D&D 4E The Realms being the first 4e setting

[Anthraxus]

I hope this doesn't mean that Greyhawk will remain in a state of permanent limbo. I can't think of another book that would get me more excited about the new edition than GHCS finally getting the treatment it deserves.

Just speculation, here. WOTC gave us Living Greyhawk and let the players run the campaign. They never updated the setting with actual books past the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer.

Now that they canceled Living Greyhawk, I'm thinking the gates are open for a new campaign setting to be published in the future.

Maybe part of the reason behind cancelling LG was so they could publish some Greyhawk books..?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

You have to admit, even if you removed the "Year of the Frickin Drow", it's still pretty ridiculous.

No, I don't have to admit that. They sell what is bought. If book number 5 had sold poorly, book number 6 would never have been done.

And the point I wan tto make is this: You don't have to buy all those books. No one is holding a handcrossbow to your head.

 

[MightyTev]

4E might see a new official Planescape...but on the flipside of that, all the work on making FR and Eberron's cosmology different from the Great Wheel means that they might have to "undo" some of the work from 3E.

They wouldn't need to "undo" things, just look at them a different way. It's been suggested that all worlds are linked by the plane of shadows/plane of mirrors - maybe they'll do something with that?

One thing that makes me hopeful about a 4e Planescape is the ending to Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk - (spoilers)

Spoiler

Castle Greyhawk goes plane-hopping!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

They wouldn't need to "undo" things, just look at them a different way. It's been suggested that all worlds are linked by the plane of shadows/plane of mirrors - maybe they'll do something with that?

Plus, portals can lead from anywhere to anywhere, there just had to be someone to make the portal that way. Sigil in particular should contain portals to every plane (and probably most layers) in Toril's cosmologies.

 

[Carnivorous Ape]

It's a bit of a no-brainer that FR will be the first 4E campaign setting. Personally, I have mixed feelings about FR. Bits of it are okay, but generally it's too fanciful and over-wrought for my tastes - I like my settings to be darker and grittier. And, as I've already got the 3E FRCS, I don't think I need to buy the 4E version.

Won't the edition change cause massive, seismic-level problems to the feel and history of FR? I can see the changes to magic, monsters and classes creating big problems for such a massively detailed setting. Even just something like the new-style 4E dragons seems at odds with what Ed Greenwood wrote about dragons in 'Wyrms of the North' etc.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Won't the edition change cause massive, seismic-level problems to the feel and history of FR? I can see the changes to magic, monsters and classes creating big problems for such a massively detailed setting. Even just something like the new-style 4E dragons seems at odds with what Ed Greenwood wrote about dragons in 'Wyrms of the North' etc.

Hence the Spell Plague, I guess.