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I suspect Eberron is going to be their baby for the next year. From the read I get from the vibes of the whole thing, they're working hard to cleanse their properties of all traces of influence from people they don't work with anymore, most notably Gary Gygax and his world of Greyhawk, but now also including Monte Cooke. Eberron is their first big post-TSR property, and when it outgrows itself to expansion, they'll possibly work on a new one. I think it bears watching the independent game designers for new worlds first, personally.
I think it bears watching the independent game designers for new worlds first, personally.
Most of all Pathfinder.
Like you said, once they clean themselves up, one wonders where they will go, and how they will try to reel in younger players once Eberron gets old.
But it seems to me that a 'clean break' in the rules is also the time to usher in a new world, and when the dust settles after the release of 4 the designers are going to need something to do.
If there is no official support for the Greyhawk campaign setting in 4th edition then I guess I'll just start playing in Pathfinder's world, and buying all my supplements besides core books from Paizo. Is it really that hard to just suck it up and acknowledge the work that came before Wizards owned the property?
A new campaign setting is the last thing that D and D needs right now.
Apologies to the Pathfinder folks, of course.
The recent design and development post on the Wizards of the Coast site about the style of the new D and D screamed "new generic campaign" setting to me.
Anyone else share these thoughts?
Yes, it could be although both FR and Eberron seems to be the kind of world that they try to illustrate. As I understand this might be the reason that they didn't like GH which is a more straightforward world.
The recent design and development post on the Wizards of the Coast site about the style of the new D and D screamed "new generic campaign" setting to me.
Anyone else share these thoughts?
Yup, been rooting around there the last few days.
If I were them I would try something a little different from FR and Eberron. After all, there isn't much other than scale and level of detail to differentiate FR from GH and DMing has gone a long way since GH. For example, looking at Pathfinder, it's really seeded with possibilities in a way that GH wasn't. Eberron, too, has more color, although I've never played, I have browsed through the books.
Well, it'll be a while before they make a move like that. Just speculatin'.
Well, given the possible changes to Eldarins, evil outsiders, and elves, it sounds as if they are making so many fundamental changes that if they might as well be making a new campaign setting. I don't see how they will be able to explain the fact that succubi and erinyes are actually the same creatures, and the ice devils are really yugoloths without creating a world that ignores what came before.
Well, given the possible changes to Eldarins, evil outsiders, and elves, it sounds as if they are making so many fundamental changes that if they might as well be making a new campaign setting. I don't see how they will be able to explain the fact that succubi and erinyes are actually the same creatures, and the ice devils are really yugoloths without creating a world that ignores what came before.
They might as well call it a whole new Name too... it's not really what I think of as D&D...
