What would you like to see 3rd parties produce for 4E?

[Rechan]

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Do these hit the spot for others?

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The others seem to me more likely to have wide appeal in the context of a scenario. Is 4E really so rules-heavy as to make a rules-set-specific book of traps a good seller? How much really is there to say about generic terrain and hazards?

Traps/hazards are treated like monsters. If you have a book of monsters, it makes sense to have a book of traps. I routinely skim Dungeon adventures for new traps/hazards/terrain. There is also a constant request for more traps in the Houserules board, and on the WotC board.

I personally think terrain is something that is missing. Interesting terrain is something that the DM can forget about when designing an encounter. I particularly love all the terrain in the DMG (The mirror crystals? HELL YEAH). Seeing a whole book of them to pluck ideas from, damn straight. In fact, a book of terrain is my first suggestion on page 1 of this thread.

The issue is not "It's rules heavy". The issue is "Here's an idea you can drop into an encounter to mix it up".

 

[Ariosto]

The issue is not "It's rules heavy". The issue is "Here's an idea you can drop into an encounter to mix it up".

Folks playing a lot of other games get a lot of useful ideas from (e.g.) the Grimtooth's Traps series. System-specific material is obviously less widely useful. There's a limited demographic interested in buying such works in the first place, I think much less than for bestiaries. The issue is whether the special importance of rules in 4E would boost appeal enough in that segment to make up for losing the segment of the market turned off by the inclusion of what's just gibberish to them.

 

[Rechan]

System-specific material is obviously less widely useful. There's a limited demographic interested in buying such works in the first place,

The question was "What would you like to see 3rd parties put out", not "What do you think 3rd party publishers would get lots of sales from".

 

[Ariosto]

Sorry, Rechan. I thought that if one "would like to see" something, then one might be interested in what could increase the chances of seeing it.

Perhaps it is true of more than one toiler that it would make the appearance of a given product more likely if more than one potential user were to express interest in it, and if it otherwise appeared that it would not be disastrous to go for a narrower rather than a broader market.

Being of such a practical bent myself, I did not think it off topic to go from purely idle woolgathering to gathering a sense of whether the project was worth pursuing -- by inviting more answers to the question. If wishing that someone else would do something is to have any chance of making it so, then it is certainly not by keeping the wish secret!

If something happens to be on your wish list as well, then please do not be too bashful to offer a "me, too!".

 

[Rechan]

Sorry, Rechan. I thought that if one "would like to see" something, then one might be interested in what could increase the chances of seeing it.

Eh?

So you expect people to just respond with popular choices?

I want what I want. I don't know if someone else wants it. When someone asks me "What do you want", I tell them.

But, four people in this thread said they'd like Terrain/Trap books. So that says to me that there's more than 1.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I'm not sure if I replied before or not, but what I most would liek to see if some kind of sub-stystem for generating the fluff behind the 4E characters. Information on non-combat skills, non-combat feats, using combat powers out of combat and the like. Perhaps even some looking at the realities of life in the 4E universe, where low-level NPCs have better hit points, and most people would have some kind of ability, however minor.

That would be something worth having. Of course it is something I could probably do myself, for my own game, but other people could do it better, I am sure.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I just want to chime in and say that, having just bought the first instalment of War of the Burning Sky 4E, I want to congratulate Morrus and everyone in ENWorld Publishing for an excellent job...

It is one heck of an adventure...

 

[Aiyoku]

I'd like to see the Book of Erotic Fantasy 4th-ed-ified.

Adult campaigns are too fun. =^.^=

 

[jmucchiello]

I'd like to see the Book of Erotic Fantasy 4th-ed-ified.

Adult campaigns are too fun. =^.^=

Ooo, Would erotic (or eros) be a new power source? Just think of the classes: Dominatrix/er (erotic controller), Doxie* (erotic striker), Courtesan (erotic defender) and Madam (erotic leader). And then there's that at will abilities..... Sorry, Grandma.

* Yes, thank you, EGG for that chart in the 1e DMG.

 

[Rechan]

I think Courtesan would be a better striker. I mean, they're so striking.

Eunuch might be a better defender.