What Campaign Settings will you purchase?

[Set]

Guaranteed;
Scarred Lands / Sharn
Al-Qadim
Kara-Tur
Greyhawk

Probably;
Eberron
Golarion

Forgotten Realms would have been on that list (as my nearly complete collection of 2E Realms stuff weighing down multiple shelves would attest), but they lost me with the Time of Troubles.

 

[Green Knight]

Every... damn... one.

But if I could only have three, I'd go for Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, and Dark Sun, in that order.

 

[Mallus]

Most likely none, though I might if shilsen wraps up his current Eberron campaign and starts a new 4e one (if there's room in it).

Frankly, I prefer to make my own. It's a lot of fun.

 

[Wormwood]

None. The implied setting is good enough for me (especially if the support from Dragon/Dungeon continues to be as excellent as it has been this month)

 

[Terwox]

Darksun, Ravenloft. I've never played Al-Qadim as I started w/ 3E, but I'd pick it up if they updated it.

 

[Khairn]

I may get Eberron, but what I really want is a setting that has been designed from the groundfloor up with 4E in mind. Something that can showcase its strengths. I'm not so much interested in a setting that needs to be "re-imagined" (or shoe-horned) in order for it to fit into 4E's paradigm.

After seeing the heavy-handed way WotC altered FR to fit 4E, I'm worried about what they'll end up doing to these other classic settings.

 

[Nymrohd]

I'll buy them all, mainly because I can afford to and have the space for them. My preference to play in would probably be Eberron. Planescape is nice and amazing but it is not D&D but rather a storyteller roleplaying game that only on occasion needs rules. Dragonlance would be nice if it is set on the right place in the timeline. I like the fact that they made changes into FR and I want to see exactly what happened in the end (I really do not form attachments to rules and settings easily ). I'll concur that Ravenloft needs to be kept creepy and the 4E philosophy may or may not work well on this. I'd love Al'Qadim or Kara-tur (and I fervently hope that when and if we get an OA book it is set in Kara-Tur). I never cared about Mystara and I don 't plan to start now. I would love to see a birthright setting without regency, commanding nations never interested me, but the world was beautiful and had potential for more traditional gameplay.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I may get Eberron, but what I really want is a setting that has been designed from the groundfloor up with 4E in mind. Something that can showcase its strengths. I'm not so much interested in a setting that needs to be "re-imagined" (or shoe-horned) in order for it to fit into 4E's paradigm.

After seeing the heavy-handed way WotC altered FR to fit 4E, I'm worried about what they'll end up doing to these other classic settings.

I think the major problem with the FR is that they didn't "re-imagine" it, but rather they DID shoe-horn it. These are different things. If they'd started with a largely clean slate and simply focused on the FR's strengths, they'd have been good.

Instead they took the existing FR, and said "How can we change this to make it fit with all the 4E elements". Not how can we "re-imagine" this - change this. It's different. So we have countries vanishing off the map or falling into chasms, Dragonborn appearing out of nowhere, and so on. And effectively it's Time of Troubles 2: Electric Boogaloo. Which precisely three people in the world actually wanted.

If they'd said "Here's the FR, but different", I think a lot less people would have been upset.

With DS and PS and so on, if they re-imagine/genuinely re-boot them, they'll be fine, because they can just take what's cool about the setting and expand on it. If they instead take the existing setting and just try to change it so now it fits with 4E, then I think that's going to create a lot of problems. I mean, DS doesn't need Dragonborn or Tieflings, and Clerics and Paladins are questionable. Part of DS' strength is in that it doesn't have these elements. So hopefully they keep them out. What would be really bad is if they do to DS what they did to the FR, i.e. advance the storyline and jam every single thing from 4E into the setting, regardless of whether it fits.

The main reason to worry, I guess, is that the guy in charge of this is the guy who screwed the pooch on Dark Sun's "Revised" version. Still, maybe he was forced to put in all the silly stuff by other people and bad novelists. We can only hope.

 

[Hawke]

I hope they don't get into the later Dark Sun stuff and rework it for 4E while keeping the major post-apocalyptic / harsh feel as well as common elements like elemental clerics, sorceror kings, slavery, setting specific races.

My fears for it though... they've already said that they're against disallowing core elements in a setting. I think as a result it's too forceful to push certain classes in there like divine characters, though if they keep it extremely light and suggest "you don't see divine characters almost ever, but if you happened to they'd worship long forgotten gods..

 

[The Highway Man]

Planescape, Dark Sun, and any other setting that would not have been covered by third edition, potentially. IF I find the treatment appealing. I don't need to purchase FR, DL all over again.