Wizards 2008 releases?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Someone promised me Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. Me want.

Is there an actual date, or is this still rumorware?

Rumor or a joke.

 

[Kheti sa-Menik]

I'm hoping D20 Modern get some love from WOTC. Not that I will buy anything, since I'm boycotting them but it'd be nice to see them try to keep people coming back and show that they still support the game.

 

[Pants]

Well... I still think we might see d20 Modern revision in 2008, but probably not in first quarter. And this is definitely just my speculation.

That would be nice.

I don't play d20 Modern that much, but I'd be liable to pick up a revised core book if it came out. It's a fun toolbox set of rules.

 

[Shazman]

With Forge of War being nearly crunchless, and the sparseness of crunchy books and adventures well into next year, I start to wonder. The product schedule looks like they are winding down as far as (crunchy) 3.5 products go. Something must be up. Shoot, maybe 4E is about to be announced early next year.

 

[Nightfall]

Orcus save me from speculations of the unfounded chicken littles crying out about 4th edition...

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

Someone promised me Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. Me want.

Is there an actual date, or is this still rumorware?

You might be thinking about this d20 Modern article:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20modern/article/20060505a

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm hoping D20 Modern get some love from WOTC. Not that I will buy anything, since I'm boycotting them but it'd be nice to see them try to keep people coming back and show that they still support the game.

I don't quite get the logic behind that statement. If you are boycotting them, why would you care what they published?

I'm not trying to be snide, I just find your comments confusing.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Shazman]

With Forge of War being nearly crunchless, and the sparseness of crunchy books and adventures well into next year, I start to wonder. The product schedule looks like they are winding down as far as (crunchy) 3.5 products go. Something must be up. Shoot, maybe 4E is about to be announced early next year.

Okay, I guess it's too early for any 4E rumormongering. Since 3E came out, we've gotten more crunchy goodness practically every month than is going to be released in the next 8 months. Even just prior to 3.5, WotC's release schedule didn't look like the wasteland it appears to be now. Maybe they are just running out of ideas, or they are going to put a whole lot of stuff in the DI.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Some of which are FR novels, which I quit reading because those novels keep turning the campaign setting upside-down. It's ok once in awhile to do a catastrophic story arc...but several all at once?

Note, this wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't treat FR novels as canon. They need to do what Eberron did and...NOT treat them as canon anymore.

It's not that I want Eberron novels to be treated as canon, Luis, but you do realise that the novels are probably the most important part of the Forgotten Realms brand, right? Salvatore's books make the New York Times best-seller list; the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting did not.

Fans of the novels want to find the setting they read about when they come to the game.

The key would be "no more Realms-Shaking Events in the novels", so that game canon doesn't have to change to match novel canon.

 

[JoeGKushner]

With Forge of War being nearly crunchless, and the sparseness of crunchy books and adventures well into next year, I start to wonder. The product schedule looks like they are winding down as far as (crunchy) 3.5 products go. Something must be up. Shoot, maybe 4E is about to be announced early next year.

I could be misremembering, but a lot of the 2e material was 'fluff'.

On the other hand, since I have a lot of that material, the new material in the new format isn't doing a lot for me and I prefer crunch.