Thought for future setting books - Tiers of Play

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#1

TheLoneCleric

Feb 04, 2009 10:26:19
The Forgotten Realms Campaign book while useful seemed to focus far too much on the individual countries and less on what I would consider useful in a 4E game. That being, the play styles and locals that would come in at the various Tiers of play. While I 'could' set a game in Thay I'd really be adverse to allowing 1-5th level characters from really spending any great ammount of time there.

I know it seems that prebuilt cities and adventures seem bad but the first chapter's setting was almost perfect. I'd love to get more of these build examples based on the Tiers of play for the setting. Case in point Eberron would be great if I got a Heroic Sharn based adventure, a Paragon Tier run through the Mournlands, and Epic Xen'drik adventures. Etc. The Adventure modules that come out around the same time are great, but I'm looking for more smaller set-ups like what Dungeon Delve will offer.

Thoughts?
#2

Kensan_Oni

Feb 04, 2009 14:57:02
What they need to do is expand their campaign line so they can pull out the first chapter of the last book, and stick in a hardbound "(Campaign Setting) Adventures, which will provide an arc developmental plot, and developed adventure seeds for tier progression. Not necessarily fully fleshed out ideas, but if they can put together, say, a 120 page book (4 times the size of the chapter already provided), filling the last 16 pages or so with even more monsters or NPC's to provide as adversaries, I would not be opposed to the product.
#3

TheLoneCleric

Feb 04, 2009 15:08:35
What they need to do is expand their campaign line so they can pull out the first chapter of the last book, and stick in a hardbound "(Campaign Setting) Adventures *snip*

Oh. Now that's a nice way of doing it. I would shell out some cash for a Revenge of the Giants style book with tear out maps all tied to the setting. They could sneak in some adventures and monsters for the adventure pack. Say The first chapter a well fleshed out starting adventure in the setting, then the smaller Dungeon Delve style adventureets, finally more monsters based upon those adventures. Throw in 2-3 full sized pull out maps and we're golden.

Also, I'd LOVE IT if Wotc re-sold some of their old mini's maps as a bundle pack to tie in with the Dungeon Tiles.