Maybe they would give us the posibility of making up a full realm. I used to do that in AD&D... It was really easier than in 3.0 and 3.5...
Just release it with a REAL GOOD STUFF of mapping
. Not just the dungeoneering, I want the FULL stuff.Let me make my full world!! :bounce: I Just love the idea!!
AND LET US SHARE IT WITH OTHERS ONLINE!! :pile: Perhaps we could find a wonderfull realm where we could share ideas with other players.It could be big to let the users to make and create a full realm, and publish it just online...
OR GIVE US THE POSSIBILITY TO USE THIS BOOK TO GET THE PLANES MORE SUBSTANCIAL THAN A SIMPLE BOOK DESCRIPTION OF HOW IT LOOKS LIKE!!!
Just as an example: I have a homebrew setting I've been fleshing out over the past three years; and its still not to a point where I would publish it, even if I could (then again, I'm not a full-time game designer/developer). I would love to one day get it published, but I don't expect WotC to come out with any kind of homebrew tools that a third-party could use to create a potentially competing 3rd party product.
All that aside, if WotC decides to make some kind of world-map generator, and other tools available, I'd be more than happy to see it come out and to use them.
One of the prime reasons people play in the pre-generated campaign settings, aside from thinking they're cool, is the extreme amount of prep-time involved in homebrewing a campaign setting.
You have a point there, but if we have a realease of tools that may help us in designing, the prep-time, as you say, would be really shorter. I insist, in AD&D was possible to make it un a few months. Actually, the 3.5 has so many manuals, prestige classes and races that it´s really more complicate. If I leave only the core books, my new world is really poor. Perhaps they could see the possibility of making the monster manual with a list of which places you may find the different monsters: plains, mountain, forest, etc.
Just as an example: I have a homebrew setting I've been fleshing out over the past three years; and its still not to a point where I would publish it, even if I could (then again, I'm not a full-time game designer/developer).
I insist about that the time would be shorter with real good tools.
I would love to one day get it published, but I don't expect WotC to come out with any kind of homebrew tools that a third-party could use to create a potentially competing 3rd party product.
If you use to dising it the WotC prodducts, with online updates, they give you themselves the possibility to share it online, they could discover a brand new bunch of ideas in their players/users/designers.
At least i wan´t WotC to consider inside their publication that there exist a sort of users that love designing their own worlds to play. ¿Why it has to be the human or the elves the more important races in wolrd? ¿What happends if i want to make the gnomes and dwarves the rulers? ¿Or if i hit my head and make a halfling´s ruled world? Perhaps there was a big war where the bigger races got killed and the little humanoids hided and step asside untill it finished, and then they were majority and make themselves the rulers...
Just want to know if at least WotC will consider that there are users that want to desing their own world... and make their hobby easier...