D&D 4E Would you buy and play a new campaign setting for 4e?

[hazel monday]

I think "if Paizo released it with the same quality as WOTC's standards" is a funny sounding option. If Paizo's standards dropped to WOTC's level, I'd stop buying products from Paizo. Paizo's campaign setting is creative and wierd. WOTC's campaign settings just seem more like corporate mandates than campaign settings.
I voted the " I don't need no more" option.

 

[Dausuul]

Totally depends on the setting. I don't care who publishes it, I care if it's good. More to the point, I care if it matches the sort of setting I want to run games in.

What I mainly want out of a setting is a sense of wonder (hard to do in an RPG, I know, but not impossible by any means). I can't stand magic-as-technology a la Eberron; I want magic to be mysterious, evocative, and intensely personal. 4E looks like it will support this style of play better than previous editions, what with the de-emphasizing of Vancian casting and the reduced need for magic items.

 

[The Eternal GM]

I think that WotC should develop a full setting based upon the material of the 4th Edition PHB, DMG and MM in the same way as TSR did with the Basic, Expert, etc. boxed sets. There are (so it seems) putting in some fluff such as the fallen empires of the dragonborn and tieflings, so why not go whole hog and turn it into a fully-fledged realm?

 

[WayneLigon]

When referring to level of quality, I mean art, layout, graphic design, writing and editing, game mechanics and the like. Think the best levels of WOTC production as the top end, and the worst 3.0 d20 material as the bottom of the barrel.

Sure. If I can get a certain level of quality, it doesn't matter to me who releases it. My standard is a little lower than I generally see from Wizards, Green Ronin, Malhavoc, and certain other 3rd party publishers.

 

[Wormwood]

4e Forgotten Realms seems sufficiently "new" for me to consider giving it a second look.

 

[shilsen]

Not for a while now. I love Eberron and will be playing it for the next few years, I'm sure, so I wouldn't pick up a new setting.

 

[Wormwood]

I think that WotC should develop a full setting based upon the material of the 4th Edition PHB, DMG and MM in the same way as TSR did with the Basic, Expert, etc. boxed sets. There are (so it seems) putting in some fluff such as the fallen empires of the dragonborn and tieflings, so why not go whole hog and turn it into a fully-fledged realm?

Yep. Take all the new fluff, add some details, and call it Greyhawk.

/ducks

 

[Li Shenron]

If a new campaign setting with the same production values as Eberron was released for 4e, would you buy it? Would you play it? Would you buy it only from WOTC, what if a 3rd party released it?

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When referring to level of quality, I mean art, layout, graphic design, writing and editing, game mechanics and the like. Think the best levels of WOTC production as the top end, and the worst 3.0 d20 material as the bottom of the barrel.

Without knowing what kind of setting it would be, the question doesn't really make sense for me!

If it was another "generic" setting, let's say not farther from vanilla D&D than Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Kalamar, Ptolus, and even Eberron, then no, I am not interested, no matter the quality. Not even a Pulitzer prize winner...

But if it's something significantly different, then probably yes.

 

[kennew142]

I'm already going to be playing the following 4e campaigns: Eberron, FR and a POL homebrew.

I will be GMing my own (mostly) non-POL homebrew.

I would likely buy a new setting if it looked good, but I don't know if anyone in our group is looking for another FRP world to run.

 

[infax]

I can see why having it coming out by WotC would make a difference.

In the matter of supporting material at least. How many supplements we have seen for Eberron since it was released? How many books from WotC after Eberron had some information specific for the campaign world (like specific entries for creatures in the MM 3-5 relating to the role of a given creature in Eberron, or information on Frostburn tying in to the setting)?

Otoh I didn't find campaign material released by WotC for 3.xe good enough. I got the FRCS book, but passed on any other books for that world. And while I got many of the Eberron specific supplements, it was mostly to plunder good ideas rather than to use the setting itself.

I would need a campaign world a little bit more original and interesting than Eberron to get me to buy it. No matter the publisher.

Scarred Lands managed to keep me hooked for a long while.