D&D 4E What will be your 4e setting?

[Plane Sailing]

Homebrew all the way, baby!

I've not created a brand new homebrew campaign for, ooh, about 25 years or so - and I'm itching to do a new one!

I like the idea of a points of light setting, and I've always fancied doing an archipelago campaign again, but I'll see what ideas come to mind once more information is revealed.

Cheers

 

[shilsen]

Definitely Eberron. There's just too much stuff I'm itching to try out in that setting, even after having run two campaigns in it.

 

[Bagpuss]

I might advance Birthright to a points-of-light setting, with the goblin and awnsheghlien kingdoms having won a significant war, and the shadowrealms influence on the real world increased greatly.

 

[vagabundo]

Aside from that, I'm really hoping someone will put out a Ravenloft setting. Hopefully WotC will license it out to Arthaus, again, as they did a pretty good job with it. And besides, even if WotC were interested in bringing it back on their own, they've got this whole "One setting per year" schtick which would hold them back. Meaning that the absolute earliest they can put out a Ravenloft Campaign Setting book is 2010 (2008 for the Realms, and 2009 for Eberron). So however good a job they could possibly do, I'd rather Arthaus had the license, as they'd probably do it nearly as good, and sooner. But whether Ravenloft gets a setting book or not, I'll probably see about looking for a Ravenloft game not long after 4E comes out. I'm willing to convert it, myself, it it means I can play it.

They need to licence out a number of their setting to other companys for 4e, while only keeping a little editorial control.

Things like Spelljammer,Dark Sun, planescape, mystra-hollow world (I'd love a conversion to the old sytle racial classes for elves, dwarves for this setting, make it very unique).

I dont think any of these are big money spinners, but some could do quite well...

OnTopic: I was going to do my own points of light based on the recent design article, but I've recently seen the Lone Wolf RPG and would like to try something with that (4e). Maybe...

 

[Guild Goodknife]

Forgotten Realms (very excited for the changes) or some homebrew till the new FRCS arrives.

 

[Aristotle]

I resisted Eberron in 3E, but after reading some recent reviews I'm thinking of giving it a try in the future. I'm excited to see how Forgotten Realms pans out. I was a fan back in the day but never ran it as it seemed too heavily supported (I couldn't keep up with the lore or afford to collect outdated books to catch up on it). But to start I'll be running in the default, point of light, setting. I'm working up my point and the area around it now. I may build into more points later.

I have a full fantasy homebrew in my head with custom races, classes, and so on. I might get around to putting that on paper in 4E. I have a modern homebrew I would really like to do with 4E rather than any of the Modern d20 flavors. It would work better if it remained 100% compatible with the D&D product line.

 

[Wormwood]

None.

Points of light meta-setting, moving from published adventure to published adventure.

That's why I'm paying for Dungeon, after all.

 

[Masquerade]

Probably a "points of light"-scented homebrew.

 

[Kavon]

Homebrew

Put too much time into my world not to use it when I DM.

 

[GlassJaw]

There are things that I like about the Ravenloft campaign, but I will need to see what 4E does to the greater undead monsters before I start considering it.

I'm really feeling the Ravenloft-vibe from this whole "points of light" idea as well. I certainly wouldn't do a straight conversion but I definitely want to capture the style of Ravenloft, at least without the whole demi-plane thing.

I want a world with small, isolated communities populated by people who rely on each other for their own survival, are afraid to venture too far from the "safety" of their home, and have little to no idea what lies beyond the wooded hills.

I also want harsh, foreboding, and seemingly endless wilderness. I'll probably set it somewhere cold as well. Campaigns set in cold and snowy climates are fun in an evil DM way.

Plus, a homebrew where not much is known about the outside "world" is great for me because I really need to offload as much of the prep work as I can due to time limitations.

Of course, this all depends on whether 4E does or doesn't suck.