Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="wlmartin" data-source="post: 5647653" data-attributes="member: 6679380">Unless they did it as a best design contest it wouldn't work IMO.Don't forget, Ebberon was picked out of around 11,000 entries or so... Imagine the nightmare of collating 11,000 different bits and bobs from different entries to make one world.Not to mention the copyright issues involved. If one person creates the world and signs a piece of paper saying they sign over intellectual rights over to WotC (in return for some kind of payoff) then its nice and neat... but if 1000s of people are chipping in ideas it would be intollerable.The line from Men In Black sticks with me... A person is smart, People are stupid.I do want to see something innovative but encouraging players to come up with a new campaign setting shows a lack of imagination on the part of the designers or that they feel so out of touch with what people want that they have to let them do the work for them.However I don't think they will do another Fan Made Setting... just wouldn't stick. They are still having issues with Dark Sun (not enough companion material, no minatures for the new monsters and races) so bringing out a new setting that doesn't fit nice and neatly will cause disarray</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wlmartin, post: 5647653, member: 6679380"] Unless they did it as a best design contest it wouldn't work IMO. Don't forget, Ebberon was picked out of around 11,000 entries or so... Imagine the nightmare of collating 11,000 different bits and bobs from different entries to make one world. Not to mention the copyright issues involved. If one person creates the world and signs a piece of paper saying they sign over intellectual rights over to WotC (in return for some kind of payoff) then its nice and neat... but if 1000s of people are chipping in ideas it would be intollerable. The line from Men In Black sticks with me... A person is smart, People are stupid. I do want to see something innovative but encouraging players to come up with a new campaign setting shows a lack of imagination on the part of the designers or that they feel so out of touch with what people want that they have to let them do the work for them. However I don't think they will do another Fan Made Setting... just wouldn't stick. They are still having issues with Dark Sun (not enough companion material, no minatures for the new monsters and races) so bringing out a new setting that doesn't fit nice and neatly will cause disarray [/QUOTE]

Verification