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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3417155" data-attributes="member: 360">Okay, I can't change the rules of the game (lots of people in this thread seem to want to do that), just flavor. So I'm going to do some things that hardcore D&D fans will either love or hate, and which just may be a bad business move. The only near-rules change I'm making is nuking the silly DMG demographics which say almost everyone is a 1st level commoner, and replacing it with a chart where average, competent, working adults are 3rd-5th level.I'm launching a new setting to replace Greyhawk as the default D&D standard. I'd just use Eberron, but Keith Baker says it's too wonky to make core, and I'll defer to him on this. And it's not going to cover any major new conceptual ground; the major point of the new setting will be that, unlike Greyhawk (or the Realms, for that matter), but like Eberron, the new setting will be designed from the ground up to work with 3.5 mechanics. This setting will contain as much OGL content as possible; the world map, cosmology, short summaries of nations, and major NPCs will be out there for any publisher to use.You'll be able to get the basics of the new setting in a revised PHB (new art, include all errata, swift/immediate actions, add artificers, add archivists, drop monks, drop barbarians, remove polymorph, add duskblade, find a good light-fighter class and add it, drop half-orcs and half-elves). And they'll be an inexpensive 160-page or so Players Guide to NewSetting for people who don't want to buy a new PHB.To make Greyhawk diehards happy, and tell them we're not abandoning them, we'll release a nice, 300 page or so full-color Greyhawk Campaign Setting at the same time the revised PHB hits print.Neither Greyhawk nor the new setting are going to get a lot of dedicated support. I'll work out some sort of licensing deal to let Pazio put out Greyhawk material (I'll be charging a lot less than WotC would, though I will be grabbing part of the profits). And the new setting will largely be supported the way Greyhawk is now -- through core materials.And I'll institute a policy of moving new rules content to the SRD six to nine months after it's available in print.</blockquote>

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