One would be style like Maztica, Dark Sun or Hryborean universe (Conan) where there is low level of magic, and heavy armours are rares. (Some class like fighter or paladin could having optional levels if they lose feat of heavy armour proficiency).
Other would be like the AD&D scoucerbook A Mighty Fortress from TSR (XVII-XVIII centuy) where the gunpowder weapons have displaces the knigths armour and the batlle axes. The world of Swashbucklers like el Zorro, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the three musketeers, Dick Turpin.... Ravenloft setting too can being a good example of setting.
Trouble? The possible "crossovers" between different civilations, for example in the trilogy of novel about Maztica by Douglas Niles. And what if the Six Gun or Gatling gunis introduced in the campaign? I suppose with the new rules about points like the miniatures game...
* From wikipedia...
North of Maztica is the continent of Anchorome. South of it (and separated by a strait) lies an unknown continent very close to mythical sub-saharan Africa
Maztica and Reed Steel
Reed Steel. What an awesome radio name. :P
Havard
I´m sorry the mistake.
I´m sorry the mistake.
What mistake?
Havard
I´m sorry the mistake.
No need to apologize. it's all good. :D
Yes, by the way, bring back Red Steel
Online is another option. Release 4e pdf mini settings for the old material and let people buy them that way.
If WotC doesn't like those ideas how about letting the players choose? Each year do an online poll for which setting should be revised and have the winner released each year at Gen Con. That way only the most popular settings get released and players will feel like that have some control. This may decrease some of the resentment people have been expressing about 4e. Let the people who play the games have a little bit of say so about what they want to play.
I like the multi-setting book idea, but as long Maztica returns, I'd be happy.
I wrote Redd Steel in the title, but I mean Red Steel, (too named Savage Coast), a setting from Mystara world. It was a campaing of "capa y espada" (=cloak and sword), a swashbuckling-themed subgenere of historical novel based in XVI-XVIII centrys. I don´t know how editing the litle.
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I like the multi-setting book idea, but as long Maztica returns, I'd be happy.
-It's not going to, don't get your hopes up. Best there'll be, I'd imagine, would be mentions in FR sourcebooks. Maztica was originally canned because the setting itself wasn't making enough money for TSR/WotC to justify it's continued existence. While after ten years or so, there is a new fanbase out there, I doubt with Eberron, and all of their other campaign settings, WotC would give Maztica (as it's own setting) another chance.
I can hope can't I?
:D
Oh I know it is a lost cause Karsus, but it would be nice if they did something like Paizo's classic campaign stuff in Dragon.
-In little bits like that (articles, mentions, etc.), I can see Maztica living. Not as a 4e sourcebook, though.
I can hope can't I?
:D
-Sure, sure. While we're at it, let's hope that, if they do, they make Maztica more Maztica, not Latin America.
I'll give you that one. They did tend to make it a little too "real world". It ended up being the DM's job to make it more fantasy, which kind of stunk, but I still like the setting.
As a stand alone setting Maztica doesn't have a snow balls chance of making it, which is why I like the small pdf, or multi-setting book idea. If they put out mini/mulit setting books, I would definitely buy that. Then again I'd be happy with more dragon articles, just to expand the setting that paizo started.
Then again I'd be happy with more dragon articles, just to expand the setting that paizo started.
-That works. It'd be nice to see a "Featured Campaign" every month, with a few supporting articles. January is Planescape, February is Kara-Tur, March is Maztica, April is Spelljammer, etc.
-That works. It'd be nice to see a "Featured Campaign" every month, with a few supporting articles. January is Planescape, February is Kara-Tur, March is Maztica, April is Spelljammer, etc.
Awesome idea. Hope someone at Wotc is listening.
Awesome idea. Hope someone at Wotc is listening.
-Do pigs fly? ;)
No need to apologize. it's all good. :D
Yes, by the way, bring back Red Steel
Now we're talking!
I actually think many elements of the RS setting would work better under 3E or 4E than they did under the 2e rules, particularly the Red Curse, which has a lot of potential, but needs to be reworked a bit to be made more fun
Havard
-Oh, because it's relevant to this thread, just thought I'd mention that Maztica is, well...gone.
Across the Trackless Sea, an entire continent of the lost realm reappeared (called Returned Abeir) subsuming the continent of Maztica.
sub·sume
–verb (used with object), -sumed, -sum·ing.
1. to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
Not gone, but undoubtedly greatly changed by the addition of it's new neighbors.
sub·sume
–verb (used with object), -sumed, -sum·ing.
1. to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
Not gone, but undoubtedly greatly changed by the addition of it's new neighbors.
Subsume also (colloquially speaking) means to twist, warp, or otherwise change something to fit into an overarching theme, pattern, etc., usually with the implication that the original no longer exists on its own. Hopefully that's not what the devs meant, but there's a chance that Abeir "killed Maztica and took its stuff."
...but there's a chance that Abeir "killed Maztica and took its stuff."
In some ways, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I think Hishna pact tiefling warlocks and dragonborn fighters with the Eagle Knight paragon path would be pretty cool.
In some ways, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I think Hishna pact tiefling warlocks and dragonborn fighters with the Eagle Knight paragon path would be pretty cool.
Ooh, that would be interesting....
teenage-mutant-ninja-tortles ...... ARISE!!!!
Ah, Tortles! The coolest race evah!
Havard
If they would bring back Maztica, I would be the 4e spokes person and make it my personal duty to convert everyone! I would prefer it as a stand alone or drop in setting if that is possible, but just bring it back. Someone on another thread had the great idea of doing a multi setting book for revisions of older stuff like Maztica. Have 3-4 settings per book with basic info to run the setting. That way they could release more setting and put out fewer setting books. The more popular settings could even have support material released online.
Online is another option. Release 4e pdf mini settings for the old material and let people buy them that way.
If WotC doesn't like those ideas how about letting the players choose? Each year do an online poll for which setting should be revised and have the winner released each year at Gen Con. That way only the most popular settings get released and players will feel like that have some control. This may decrease some of the resentment people have been expressing about 4e. Let the people who play the games have a little bit of say so about what they want to play.
I like the multi-setting book idea, but as long Maztica returns, I'd be happy.
An off hand comment from Rob Hiensoo at DDXP leads me to believe that Maztica as part of the realms will not be explored for some time if at all and when it is it will be done very differently from before. I don't know if that means as a setting unto itself, something with less colonial overtones, or that it is a something that will be completely re-imagined.
I hope it is reimagined and re-released. I would like to see it as a more stand alone setting instead of just being a part of a setting.
If you are talking about Maztica then I agree. Red Steel OTOH needs to be part of Mystara
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