WotC Poll: Which Setting for Next Adventure Series?

[Kaodi]

It would not suprise me in the least if what is taken from this poll is that the next campaign arc should be either Eberron or Dark Sun. The settings that have not been published yet under 4E are probably more there to fill out the list than be serious choices. The only way I think it could perhaps be different is if the setting it was based in was the next to be published.

 

[tvknight415]

Krynn??? I guess everyone is itching to play a kender, and has forgotten just how much they annoy other players?

(no, I don't like Kender... except either as trap fodder, or with a nice garlic and sage rub and cooked medium well on a natural hickory wood charcoal barbecue)

 

[TarionzCousin]

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.

No. They listed it as "Sigil/the Planes."

However, I omitted that as I consider Sigil to be Planescape. Who would vote for an adventure in "Sigil/the Planes" and not want it to be Planescape? Sigil is, in my tiny little mind, synonomous with Planescape.

Otherwise it ain't "Sigil."

 

[Terramotus]

Krynn? Really? As many people as I know who have read the Dragonlance books and loved them, I've never once in my gaming career met anyone who actually wanted to play a game there.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

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.

In other words and somewhat snarky:
"we aficionados would have voted with depth and understanding, but the rabble on the Wotc site was spoon-fed what they want by marketing."

Krynn? Really? As many people as I know who have read the Dragonlance books and loved them, I've never once in my gaming career met anyone who actually wanted to play a game there.

It's actually a really popular setting, but not on most DM-heavy boards. Players, in my experience, remember Dragonlance much more fondly than DMs.

 

[wedgeski]

Krynn? Really? As many people as I know who have read the Dragonlance books and loved them, I've never once in my gaming career met anyone who actually wanted to play a game there.

I've DM'd a lot of Dragonlance over the years, in three separate campaigns to 20+ players. I still have people who make a point of telling me it was their favourite setting. I stopped only because I wanted to build something of my own.

I have to be honest, it never ceases to amaze me how many people still see Krynn as a planet full of pick-pocketing kender played by the most annoying annoying people they know. Because, you know, it's not.

 

[Starfox]

Krynn has a lot of fans and a lot of detractors. I suppose many DnD players came into the game with Dragonlance, and apparently any of them still care enough to vote on WotCs site. A setting's popularity is not just measured in who likes it, but also in who dislikes it. The more "special" a setting, the higher number of people will like AND dislike it. I, for example, never liked Dark Sun, which does not stop that setting from having numerous fans - and numerous detractors (like me). That shows its a setting people care about, either positively or negatively. A more "generic" setting will have fewer likes and fewer dislikes.

If the question had been "which of these settings would you play in" with multiple choice, result might have been quite different, in fact they might have been the reverse of what we see now.

 

[jonesy]

Sovereign Press Dragonlance was the setting at its finest and a lot of the players are still miffed that WotC pulled the rug from under it. The latest version really didn't have much anything wrong with it.

 

[Jhaelen]

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

Was this an anonymous web-poll? If so, I suspect a Dragonlance fan used a script to boost her favorite setting.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Was this an anonymous web-poll? If so, I suspect a Dragonlance fan used a script to boost her favorite setting.

The winner always cheats, it seems. But they just won because Blackmoor wasn't on the list - that atomic reactor would have powered the scripts until they were OVER NINETHOUSAAAAND.