Unusual setting you'd love to see?

[Stormonu]

Not necessarily as 4E, but I'd like to see these campaigns again:

Jakandor
Council of Wyrms
Al-Qadim

and I'd love to see Spelljammer done as some sort of ship-to-ship boardgame.

 

[hafrogman]

I would quite like to see a stab made at a 4e style modern. I loved the simplicity of the class system for describing heroes. Maybe combine it with the theme system from Dark Sun to provide roles. Pick a prime stat and a role, and away you go.

I'm kind of thinking of taking a stab at this for my next campaign (which won't be for quite a while probably). Maybe it would be worth starting a thread to discuss it.

It could be a fun discussion. Since the discussion of the new Ravenloft started up, I've been toying around with the idea of lycanthropes as a lunar power source, but if you fuse race and class, it could work for a whole slew of creatures. Just pick four thematically linked monsters and describe them in roles.

Power Source: Goblinoid
Defender: Orc
Controller: Goblin
Striker: Bugbear
Leader: Hobgoblin

 

[Mallus]

I'd like to see a 4e treatment of Empire of the Petal Throne.

Even though I love my group's homebew, I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

I never got to play EPT, but I read M.A.R Barker's first two Tekumel novels when I was in high school and really dug them.

 

[the Jester]

I'd like to see a couple of the "old standards" return- Greyhawk and Mystara- but those are hardly unusual.

I think it would be cool to see a well-done Stone Age setting, as long as pcs had enough interesting options. I'd say post-apoc but they are already doing Gamma World (hurray!).

Interestingly, I think Essentials-style design allows a lot of freedom for things like this. With its reliance on simple builds (stances!) that don't take up a ton of page space, it seems easier to design new classes or builds as required.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

Although I never got the chance to play it more than a one-shot in 3.x, I'd like to see a 4E Midnight. There was a 4E adventure with the Midnight DVD but it was not really different than regular 4E without Divine characters. I've wondered if maybe that, along with the setting and tone is all you would need to convert it. (Although there was some strangeness with casting magic in Midnight that may not translate well into 4E.) I also liked the idea of Midnight character paths but perhaps they could be emulated with magic item boons or some variation on the Dark Sun theme concept.

 

[jdrakeh]

I'd like to see a low magic, low technology setting in the vein of how the world is portrayed in Conquest (of the Lost Land) or The Sword and The Sorcerer, where the kingdoms of mankind are either consumed with petty power struggles or are just this side of Neanderthal tribes and sorcery is a thing wielded only by a select few individuals (most of whom are utterly corrupted by its influence).

 

[Jhaelen]

Hmm, apparently this thread isn't about what I thought it would be about...

I'll still mention it:
What I'd love to see is a setting (or rather an rpg system) based on David Brin's 'The Practice Effect'.

 

[Cor_Malek]

I'd love to see DnD'd Discworld.

If you think about it, bulk of the work is already done, and transitions would be relatively easy, ast least to 3.X/PF. Their wizards as well... wizards (their spells are probably the only ones outside of official DnD franchises that work like the ones in DnD), witches as druids...
It should work with 4e as well - the "fleeing spells" being dailies/encounters. Obviously, Discworld wizards use a lot of ritual casting (both teleportation and Speak with Death* are described as ritual, cast by a group of wizards).

*not to be confused with speak with dead

It could even implement some meta-gaming from DM - for example allowing any RAW exploits - once (as described with L-space computing (can't recall exact book)). L-space seems to me to describe 4e Multi-universe completely - rules changing constantly as mortals fiddle with them and new synergies are found.

It's IMO a resource far too untapped as far as RPG's go.

edit:[MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] - oooh man. Yeah, I'd love to see Pathfinderised Dark Sun. Licensed, or a cheap rip off, I honestly wouldn't care (OK, I actually would, because that would make hardcore DS fans unhappy, which would mean a strange direction for the setting. But still.).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'd like to see a new version of Dream Park, alternative settings for Paranoia (Russia; Moonbase Alpha; a generation ship on it's way to Andromeda...), and I'd love Paizo, Green Ronin or Malhavoc to take a stab at a 3.X version of Dark Sun and Spelljammer...or even produce licensed versions.

I know I'm not alone in wishing for a version of RIFTS to show up in a different mechanical system, something worthy.

I'd also love for someone to make games or settings based on S.M. Stirling's Lords of Creation and Change/Nantucket/Emberverse series, Harry Turtledove's Darkness books, and Terry Brooks' Knight of the Word.

Oh yeah- I'd love some company to put my Supers: 1900 setting on the market...

 

[Plane Sailing]

based on David Brin's 'The Practice Effect'.

De-ignorance me... what is that story about? I've read other books by him (Uplift books, Earth) but not that one.