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  Well we all know the next 4e campaign setting is going to be Dark Sun, and given the fact that one campaign setting has been introduced each year, I thought it might be interesting to discuss which campaign setting might be introduced in 2011.  I am interested in both what people wish the next fantasy 4e campaign setting will be as well as what people predict it will be.

  I believe the next fantasy campaign setting might be derived from the following categories:

A pre-existing campaign setting that has been touched on already in 4e:  
  Planescape: touched on via the Sigil entry in DMG2
  Ravenloft: to be touched on via the soon to be released boardgame.  (Although this probably is not considered 4e, it can be considered recent?) (Ravenloft might be a sub-setting?)
  The 4e core setting: Nentir Vale/Points of Light could get the full campaign treatment?
  Greyhawk: might be considered to have been touched on via the 4e core deities?  

A campaign setting from a previous edition:
  Birthright, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Mystara, Oriental Adventures (OA/Rokugan may not be considered a campaign setting?)

A sub-setting from an existing or previous campaign setting:
  such as Xendrik, Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim, Hollow World etc, etc.   

Or something totally new and original designed just for 4e, ala Eberron for 3x. 

  Myself, I think I would like to see something totally new and original for 4e, but there are other settings I am interested in such as Ravenloft, Planescape and Spelljammer.

  As far as what I predict: I think the next campaign setting might be something that has already been touched upon in 4e.

  (Please forgive me in advance for any errors I have made regarding campaign lists and categorization.  I am sure there are other potential campaign categories as well as campaign settings I have not listed)

Apr 3, 2010 -- 1:51PM, Duke5150 wrote:

Ravenloft, spelljammer and planescape have been folded into the core. So I don't think they will be 4e settings. We've gotten some domains of dread in dragon magazines, so ravenloft seems to be completely supported by the magazines. Planescape is basically Sigil, as the planar hub. Using the plane below, the plane above and all the other books like the feywild and shadowfell books we will be getting, planescape flavored adventures are completely possible.

  I should have realized that.  Perhaps these settings might still get an expanded treatment in the form of campaign/player books, monster manuals or adventures?

Technically, we already have the new setting announcement - Gamma World! 

Seriously though, there have been hints that it's something new, possibly one of the other contest winners from the event that produced Eberron.

If it were up to me though, it would be Birthright, or an Al-Qadim completely divorced from Forgotten Realms.