WotC Poll: Which Setting for Next Adventure Series?

[TarionzCousin]

I just noticed something today and I was shocked and surprised.

Which setting do you think received the most votes in Wotc's June 9th poll to propose where they should set their next adventure series?

• Greyhawk
• Forgotten Realms/Faerun
• Dragonlance/Krynn
• Dark Sun/Athas
• Planescape/Sigil
• Eberron
• Nentir Vale
• Points of Light Setting
• Generic Place

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[sblock]Poll 06/09/2011 Results:

1. The Chaos Scar adventure series in Dungeon magazine is wrapping up this year. If we do another series, what should be the setting?

* Krynn: 17.8%
* Sigil and/or the planes: 16.0%
* Eberron: 14.3%
* Athas: 13.2%
* Faerun: 8.2%
* Greyhawk: 7.6%
* Some other place in the “points of light” setting: 7.2%
* The Nentir Vale: 6.8%
* A generic non-world-specific location: 6.3%
* My home campaign world (duh!): 2.5%


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[Jacob Marley]

It makes me sad to see that over twice as many people prefer Krynn over Oerth; otherwise known as my vote.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Without looking at the results I'm going to guess Greyhawk.

EDIT:
[sblock]Interesting. I played some in Krynn back in the day, but never grew super attached. I wonder if they have plans to actually go ahead with that. Maybe that's what the "semi-obscure" setting referenced earlier was. (They define semi-obscure is not currently supported?)[/sblock]

 

[Shemeska]

Did they actually list an option as 'Planescape'?

It didn't win that poll, but if it had and if that was a determining factor in anything, I seriously doubt they would ever bend on using something other than the 4e cosmology. They've been reticent to say the least about doing anything that deviated from or didn't use the PoL cosmology/alignment system/monsters, which a Planescape game would be deviating from.

 

[AeroDm]

The interesting thing to me about the results is just how *different* gamers really are. The plurality winner coming in a 17%? The top three results coming in at under 50%, and those top three are about as different as you can get. Even the range from top result to bottom was pretty tight.

 

[MrMyth]

Did they actually list an option as 'Planescape'?

It didn't win that poll, but if it had and if that was a determining factor in anything, I seriously doubt they would ever bend on using something other than the 4e cosmology. They've been reticent to say the least about doing anything that deviated from or didn't use the PoL cosmology/alignment system/monsters, which a Planescape game would be deviating from.

I could easily see a 4E campaign that didn't make any changes, or made minimal ones - it would probably require fewer adjustments than were needed for Dark Sun, honestly. You've got Sigil, you've got politics between gods, devil princes, archfey, demon lords, primordials... you've got all sorts of creepy extraplanar critters. A slightly different alignment system isn't that big a deal, if the core elements that inform that alignment system (the various planar factions and entities) are still in place.

Anyway, I missed the poll entirely. And I'm kinda sad, since mine would very much have been towards Sigil and the planes.

 

[Imaro]

Did they actually list an option as 'Planescape'?

It didn't win that poll, but if it had and if that was a determining factor in anything, I seriously doubt they would ever bend on using something other than the 4e cosmology. They've been reticent to say the least about doing anything that deviated from or didn't use the PoL cosmology/alignment system/monsters, which a Planescape game would be deviating from.

4e's Sigil and/or the planes =/= Planescape.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Well, that poll had respondents that were a lot different than those over here at Enworld. Which is a good thing. But I would bet brand recognition played a large part there.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

WTF? IMO, Greyhawk FTW!

 

[Imaro]

WTF? IMO, Greyhawk FTW!

Well seeing how 4e has for the most part ignored any settings for D&D before FR... Even to the point of there being a passage in the PHB that claims FR was the first campaign setting I'm glad Greyhawk did as well as it did over the current default setting.