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08-14-2009, 07:38 PM #1
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Dark Sun relaunched 4th Ed
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20090814#
Could we hope for a Birthright relaunch at some point? In all honesty reading the article, I think that we won't. My reasons are that Birthright unfortunately is rather close to Eberron in feel, in the sense that there are some political games and the dragonmarks are too similar to the bloodlines. It would seem redundant. Oh well
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08-15-2009, 02:15 AM #2
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Well, the announcement of DS for 4e is pretty important for the system: it will allow the designers to show 4e is flexible enough to portrait a setting as bizarre as DS. Also, it's interesting they are not approaching the setting like they did with FR (they are going back in the setting story instead of adding a world shattering event).
About BR: I don't think BR problem is that is similar to Eberron (are you sure about that? AFAIK Eberron is pretty high on magic), is that BR wasn't a very sucessful setting at all. If you see the polls about what settings people want next, BR always scores pretty low in general compared to other settings that could be done: Dragonlance, Planescape, Ravenloft,...
In my oppinion, I think it will be more possible that they add BR elements in a future DMG, maybe in DMG 3 as it will be centered in epic level play.
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08-15-2009, 02:38 AM #3
I would hope that WOTC would be considering a re-vamp on the Birthright system, and more than likely, release it upon a much smaller scale campaign setting.
Cerilia is simply too huge for Wizards to fit into one or two books. It, in itself, requires a multitude of them, and given that Birthright is a generally unheard sector of DnD, I cannot see Wizards wanting to take a gamble in face of this.
Adding to the constant problem that the number of people who are downloading books instead of purchasing them, it places Wizards in the delema on if they want to take a risk on a generally underplayed version of the game.
What I can see them doing, however, is attempting to wrestle with the idea of a Cerilia-based video game.I stand alone before the raging winds of time. Behold! Not even they have undone my efforts!
DM of the Non-Cerilia Campaign: Bersia
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08-15-2009, 05:37 AM #4
hmmm... cannibal halflings. They start at the knees and work their way up?
To quote the "press release":
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08-15-2009, 06:04 AM #5
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A BR system could overlay any of the settings. It could actually be very, very interesting in Dragonlance, Eberron, or Dark Sun.
Still, it's not the rules that I want Wizards to revisit BR for. It's to flesh out the setting more and attract more attention to it.
I think what may happen with the fringe settings is that they may get some time in a Dungeon or Dragon Magazine article or two, and that's it.
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08-15-2009, 07:14 AM #6
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I hate to say it, but ravenloft did have more pull than BR back in the day...but in in defense the past 10 years have filled with wanabe vampire/goth games & ravenloft has remained...boring?
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08-15-2009, 10:21 AM #7
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08-15-2009, 10:33 AM #8
They also royally buggered up the Realms. There is almost no similarity between 3E and 4E Faerûn.
Ius Hibernicum, in nomine juris. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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08-15-2009, 10:36 AM #9
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Good news is that Ravenloft is going to be re-launched as a !¿boardgame?! (or so it seems). Planescape will probably never see the light as a setting as Sigil is appearing on DMG 2. But some heavy weights like Dragonlance and Greyhawk remain (even Spelljammer seems to have more support in this matter). Most people on ENWorld are leaning towards a totally new setting in 2011, so who knows...
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08-15-2009, 03:45 PM #10
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I think a Birthright relaunch is extremely unlikely.
But that doesn`t mean people can`t look at the relaunches that are
done for 4e and use them as a basis for their own fan-created
updates.... So, any relaunch is a good thing for BR fans since it
gives us an idea of how the designers might portray the particulars
of our setting.
Gary
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