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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3130825" data-attributes="member: 41584">A single hard-cover for each of the currently fallow settings.  I don't want one setting, whether it be FR or Eberron, developed to the point where there isn't anywhere left to go or anything left to do, or anything that I, as GM, could possibly spring on my players without them knowing better than me what lies over yonder hillside...*Greyhawk*Al-Qadim / Zakhara*Kara-TurSpelljammerSigil / PlanescapeMystara (that one might require a seperate bestiary...)RavenloftDark SunGamma World (just kidding, although a non-fantasy d20 setting that wasn't as lifeless and limp as the d20 Modern setting could be interesting)*personal favorites, although I'd likely buy the Spelljammer and Mystara settings as well, and perhaps the others, if they contained some interesting content that I could port over to other settings.Finally, the WotC people could snap up rights to other AD&D settings and / or rules-sets, from other publishers, and 3.5 'canonize' them.The Scarred Lands settingThe Midnight settingConan's HyperboriaEmpire of the Petal Throne (Midkemia and / or Kelewan)The Arcana Unearthed classes and magic systemEach product would be a fat hardcover, not these little loser specialized niche products like Complete Class-No-One-Plays or Twinkle: City of Setting-Dependent-People-You-Can't-Really-Use-Anyway.Yes, with the caveat that I *don't* want to see yet more new monsters and races in each new book.  When I picked up Lords of Madness, I didn't want to see the Tsurlochar, or whatever, I was picking it up to learn more about Aboleth, Illithids, etc.  Same with the Races of... books, the *weakest* point of which, IMO, is the new races.  Races of the Wild was supposed to be about Elves, not bird-people.  And it isn't like the game was starving for bird-people, so why the heck did they invent a brand new one?  Same with Goliaths in Races of Stone.  Make Half-Ogres, or Half-Giants, interesting, flesh out what *already exists* instead of constantly strapping yet more stuff on.  Oh, it's a human, with floaty symbols over it's head, so we need 20 pages taken away from the humans, half-elves and half-orcs the book was ostensibly going to be about to detail their floaty head-symbols and completely new pantheon of gods that nobody ever heard of before now, since lord knows there aren't enough competing dieties running around the planes...Complete beastie books are, IMO, a step in the right direction.  With Libris Mortus, I get a resource I can use in *any* campaign that involves undead.  With Five Nations of Eberron, or Complete Chosen of Mystra, it's a niche product that I *might* find a few pages I can mine to use in another campaign, and probably have to tweak to 'de-setting-ize' in any event.Critter Compendium?  Creature Codex?  Big Book 'o Beasties?  Librum of things that are gonna die and be Looted?Seriously though, I'd rather more focus on the pre-existing 'classic' monsters, a la the Lords of Madness sort of thing, than heaps of yet more annoying evil humanoids or tentacly weirdos or dragons that breathe out swarms of rabid badgers or pelting cones of rainbow-colored candies.  'Cause that horse has been beaten to death, re-animated, and destroyed by a Cleric.</blockquote>

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