What do you think the 2012 setting is gonna be?

[VGmaster9]

Since we have a year till the next campaign setting comes out, what do you think it's going to be? I'd like to to be a Lovecraftian horror setting, since Ravenloft was gothic horror. I'd also like it to be a new version of Al Qadim, or have it set in Anchrome.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Well, according the the seminar at Gencon, it is going to have a twist, a twist that changes how things are played.

What could the twist be?

It will probably not be how classes get powers as that has been done in essentials and before.

It must be some kind of gameplay, but I have no idea what it could be.

I do not think it will be a redone setting, though.

 

[Pentius]

I'd like it to be Rokugan, thus vastly increasing my chances of playing in that setting again, but as for I think it will be, probably something new.

 

[Quickleaf]

Next campaign setting is not Dragonlance. it is not just a setting but a way to play. It gives a new twist on play. "Twist is a good word," said one of the developers.

Funny but I also remember reading somewhere "But it does have dragons in it" right after confirmation that it's not Dragonlance.

Maybe "Rawr! I'm a Monster!" where it's a reverse dungeon setup?

 

[Windjammer]

What makes you think a campaign setting is coming out next year?

Imagine the excited threads back in 2010, trying to guess what the 2011 setting for 4E would be.

Then the somewhat stifled applause when it was revealed to be Nentir Vale (gazetteer). Then the disappointment upon seeing it pulled it off the release schedule. No setting for 2011.

Who says 2012 isn't going to be exactly like that?

WotC' product planning has been so obscure and erratic over the past 18 months that any thought spent on speculating what they might be up to is wasted energy. Speculation is only fun if there's some reasonable hope that there is something at the other end to be speculated about.

 

[Matt James]

What about Neverwinter(?). That Gazetteer was pull long before and was never scheduled to be released as the big setting pooh-bah.

 

[Dice4Hire]

What about Neverwinter(?). That Gazetteer was pull long before and was never scheduled to be released as the big setting pooh-bah.

Nah, they will never do Neverwinter as a CS in 2012. The one this year was enough.

 

[Matt James]

no no no. I meant this year's was Neverwinter. I already know what's going on in 2012

 

[Pentius]

You know, thinking on it now, Dark Sun would have been a great 2012 release.

WotC: "Sorry about the real apocalypse not happening, here's our post-apocalypse setting as a consolation prize."

 

[Pour]

I'm thinking a Dungeonworld below ground and the main goal of most civilizations is to find the surface once more, having fled it in some ancient time due to the Dawn War, Far Realm incursion or some other catastrophe. The problem is its miles and miles above, crisscrossed by the Underdark, Torog's road, NEW dungeon crawl classics, and constructs designed to protect/ward the shallows. Very dungeon and exploration heavy, touching on some old school sensibilities.

Or, in keeping with the Book of Vile Darkness, an evil campaign setting where you play the monsters (return of Savage Species?) and bad guys, and the setting's monster folio could be heroic types and angels to fight. Oh, I wouldn't mind an Overlord class, something designed to command evil minions, or a sadomasochistic Torturer/Beguiler/Soulcrusher class designed to break wills.

But, maybe a little more likely, something specific in Eberron akin to what was done with Neverwinter/FR. Letting slip they'd be releasing all the Eberron books as part of a rented bundle speaks to a need for the vast collection. I bet it'll be Epic versus Neverwinter's Heroic focus, Dragon Below, Lords of Dust, that fun stuff.