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

[infax]

Also, may I ask what are those louded Paizo game worlds? I think I don't know of any one. I was only aware of Paizo publishing Dragon and Dungeon magazines for a while. Or are the references to Paizo game settings in this thread referring to those mini campaigns in Polyhedron?

 

[Will]

I voted the last, but to be fair I NEVER buy setting books, since I don't use other folks' settings.

My sole interest in a setting book is new material that I can use.

 

[Wyrmshadows]

Yeah, I would buy a good new setting. Actually I am more interested in 3rd party efforts than what WoTC puts out. My favorite settings for 3e/3.5e (besides my own homebrew) were Midnight by Fantasy Flight (#1) and Dragonlance by Sovereign Press (#2) and my favorite 3.5e rules variant setting is Conan's Hyboria (by Mongoose Publishing).

What I do not like about WoTC settings is that they are required to be "kitchen sink" settings where absolutely everything released by WoTC has a place. A unique setting is created not only by what is added, but by what is taken away.

More than likely I will buy a new setting to pillag....erm....gain inspiration from it for my own setting.



Wyrmshadows

 

[JoeGKushner]

Didn't vote because I couldn't select multiple options.

Hell, to be honest, I'd prefer they came out with a setting that was built up from the ground using 4e rules than having FR be the first dog chasing the rabbit.

 

[CleverNickName]

I don't buy pre-packaged campaign settings very often. When I do, I hardly ever play them out-of-the-box; I make a plethora of changes and melge it into my exisiting campaign as a faraway land, new dimension, or something.

You know, like everyone else does.

All of that to say, the more interesting and different and cool the campaign setting is, the better its chances of me picking it up. Who publishes a campaign setting (WotC, third-party, licensed product or not, etc.) does not matter as much as the amount of imagination and detail that goes into it. I think most people would agree.

 

[The_Gneech]

Also, may I ask what are those louded Paizo game worlds? I think I don't know of any one. I was only aware of Paizo publishing Dragon and Dungeon magazines for a while. Or are the references to Paizo game settings in this thread referring to those mini campaigns in Polyhedron?

Their new Pathfinder and Gamemastery series are set in a Paizo-created gameworld, Golarion.

-The Gneech

 

[infax]

Their new Pathfinder and Gamemastery series are set in a Paizo-created gameworld, Golarion.

-The Gneech

Ah! Thanks for the clarification!

 

[Irda Ranger]

What's with all the publisher preferences in the poll? A good setting is a good setting, no?

Anywho, I voted for the last one. I think you could make a pretty badass setting if you made heavy use of the new magic rules and the Feywild and the Shadowfell. It would be very distinct from the settings out there now. You could have a PoL feel too by only detailing city states and micro-kingdoms with long stretches of "here there be monsters" in between.

Has anyone given any thought to how all the at-will/per-encountr/per-day powers changed Eberron? The need for the Dragonmarked Houses' powers goes down a lot if anyone with a 10 in Int, Wis or Chr can take levels in Wizard, Cleric or Warlock (respectively; which is probably 95% of the population) and get very similar results.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

A playable Birthright campaign on the micro level would be nice. The macro level play standards introduced in the boxed set were terribly hard to run and confusing. Offering both options would be great.

 

[delericho]

No. I'm homebrewing settings from here on out.