Which classic setting should be get a 3.5 update next?

Which classic setting should be get a 3.5 update next?

  • Mystara (including the Savage Coast)

    Votes: 14 10.5%
  • Planescape

    Votes: 59 44.4%
  • Birthright

    Votes: 20 15.0%
  • Al Qadim

    Votes: 26 19.5%
  • other

    Votes: 14 10.5%

I think that one post of the Players Guide to the Planes is rubbish too. Nothing I've heard has mentioned anything related to Sigil being in there. Besides, for as much as I may harp on Bruce Cordell's 'Die Vecna Die' module, I can't see him in a million years contributing to a book that would stat The Lady.
 

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I know it's a long shot, but...

Other: Ultimately, I'd absolutely love to see a 3.5 D&D/d20 treatment of Lankhmar. Ideally, that would mean reobtaining the license--which, IMHO, I'm not sure of considering how well previous incarnations of the setting have fared (not well, it seems).

Also, IMHO, I think that Lankhmar would best be suited as a d20 product, or at least a heavily-restructured D&D setting. The magic system would need to be reworked (technically all "arcane" magic instead of divine), the classes would need to be changed (no clerics/druids/etc.; distinction between arcane spellcasters who use white magic, black magic, or elemental magic, as well as mere "dabblers" like Mouser; no spellcasting bards, rangers, assassins, etc.), the frequency of magic items would have to decrease (thus calling for use of systems like class-based Defense bonuses, Reserve points, etc.), & probably would need to shift from an Alignment system to the d20 Modern's Alliegiance system.

I had to vote with my heart on this one & go Lankhmar, but I know it'd be a miracle to see come true (that's why I'm working on my own conversion of it--Unearthed Arcana will be a big help on that).

Though I couldn't provide a 2nd vote, my 2nd choice would go to Mystara. However, if they did provide a 3.X update to Mystara, IMHO, I think they should take a few steps to give it a bit closer feel to the OD&D system. A few ideas:

* Have the paladin, ranger, bard, & druid classes as Prestige Classes instead of core classes. Since bard would be a PrC, change the gnome's favored class to rogue (maybe expert).
* Change the elves' favored class to Sorcerer (I know, I know--OD&D elves had spellbooks, but I think that the sorcerer's starting weapon use and the elves' racial bonus weapon profs. really lends itself to having something in lines of the old elf class).
* Since they were not part of the original OD&D selections, maybe disallow or restrict the presence of gnomes, half-elves, & half-orcs in the group (or any other characters that are not a human, halfling, dwarf, or elf).
* No subraces (IIRC, there weren't any duergar or drow in the OD&D setting).
* Maybe limit the deities/domains clerics of certain races have access to (the racial domains from FRCS could be brought in, to represent the "racial clerics" from the Gazetteers). Or, to a more extreme note, instead of selecting a deity to revere, clerics select a philosophy/aspect to follow--either Good, Order (turn undead only), Chaos (rebuke undead only), Evil, Nature (for future druids), Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Demihuman clerics may select an exclusive species-based philosophy/aspect (once again, for the "racial clerics")--Dwarf, Elf, Orc, Gnome, Halfling, etc.
* Decrease the types of dragons (overall), but go back to the old ALs for them--IIRC, white, green, & blue dragons were Neutral, red & black dragons were Evil, & the gold dragon was Good.
* Increase the rarity of the more rare/fantastic exotic weapons (like the double-bladed sword or gnome hooked hammer). Bastard swords & more "near-realistic" exotic weapons should still be available.

At the very least, I think that it'd be a viable setting to introduce--and it could be released as a mini-game in Dungeon/Polyhedron or in some articles from Dragon.
 

Maztica.

(They'd probably just botch AQ and PS *cough*see Dark Sun in Dragon Mag*cough*, so I'd rather they just stay away. As Joe mentioned, the originals were pretty good as they were.)
 


I wish Mystara would get more votes. It was my first setting; I think it was the first for a lot of people. Wasn't called Mystara then though.
 


Yeah

Funny thing is, it just wasn't called anything back then. It was just where the adventures took place (if you didn't homebrew,that is).
 


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