What do you want WOTC to release as the next 4e campaign setting?

[Calico_Jack73]

I voted for Greyhawk but, really, I would prefer this option. The Greyhawk folios are pretty much edition neutral, as-is. A new setting, something totally as-yet-unseen, would probably be just the thing to pique my interest in 4e.

One reason I'd like to see a new setting is that any 4E converted setting would be compared to it's previous editions. It is inevitable. Some things people might like better, some things they may dislike. You avoid that altogether with a totally new.

I'd like to see something similar to Midnight but not so locked down. In most campaign settings the good pantheon of gods is in power while the evil gods plot their overthrow but I propose a setting where the evil gods have the edge over the good. The good gods help their followers where they can without doing anything too overt lest they invoke the ire of the evil gods. This would be the reason for working through followers rather than taking any direct action.
This avoids the lockdown of the planes that is necessary in the standard Midnight setting. Also it maintains the availability of all core classes as playable instead of having to create mostly new classes due to the fluff of the setting (ie: in Midnight there is no "Good" divine power source so no Rangers, Paladins, non-evil Clerics, Druids were allowed as written in the PHB).

 

[Korgoth]

Dark Sun re-done for 4e could actually make me buy 4e. However, they must not destroy the campaign's canon. Period.

Depends on what you mean by canon.

I liked the first Dark Sun boxed set. They created one of the coolest and most original D&D settings ever... and then prompted mangled the whole thing with the Prism Pentad books and all their other ruinous metaplot.

So I would say that they should reset the canon.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

If I had to pick one listed on the poll I'd pick Spelljammer.

If I had to pick any TSR/WOTC published setting I'd pick Planescape.

 

[Knightfall]

Depends on what you mean by canon.

I liked the first Dark Sun boxed set. They created one of the coolest and most original D&D settings ever... and then prompted mangled the whole thing with the Prism Pentad books and all their other ruinous metaplot.

So I would say that they should reset the canon.

Well, I like both but I could live with them resetting the canon to the beginning. The first boxed set was one of the greatest role-playing products ever made.

I still remember the poster that came with it.

 

[Cryptos]

It's easy to imagine a Player's Guide coming out for several of these (most especially Dark Sun) with unique races and classes that would work in 4e, but I'm having a hard time picturing what a Player's Guide to Greyhawk would be like.

Isn't it basically just the more generic, lower magic version of Forgotten Realms... more or less a default setting?

 

[balard]

Planescape.

 

[darjr]

I wanted to vote Greyhawk... but I think I'm going to hold out for Gygax Games on that one... at least I'm hoping they do something like it.

Anyway I've always been intrigued by darksun. Never ever played in it, nor spelljammer, nor planescape, but of those three it interests me most.

 

[jensun]

Original boxed set Dark Sun please.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I'm tied between Dark Sun or Mystara, so I voted Dark Sun.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Depends on what you mean by canon.

For me, steps that would destroy canon would include putting in gnome or orc characters.

"Those genocidal Cleansing Wars? Well it wasn't so much a cleansing as a light dusting, it wasn't a genocide at all but more forced relocation."

Anything that reduces the tragedy of Dark Sun's history would be shameful.

I consider the entire evolution of the campaign setting after the original boxed set to be fodder for reshaping and rewriting . . . as long as the rewriters do not lose the little bits of Barsoom flavor Dark Sun cribbed liberally.