Jester David said: This concerns me as well. If the book doesn't contain enough information to run the campaign setting, then what's the point? Just make a setting neutral guild product that people can drop into their homebrew.



There is a pushback against expansive campaign settings of late. The idea that a big book of lore and knowledge and facts doesn't help your game. Which is somewhat true. There's a point where the lore becomes unwieldy and there's no room to make the world your own. But you do need a minimum amount of description to work with, or you're pretty much making up everything, which defeats the purpose of using a pre-published world. Click to expand...

Jester David said: The catch being, now they've done a city-focused campaign book that heavily focuses on and details factions. They're unlikely to do another. As that would be redundant.

This pretty much kills any and all chance to a big Guide to Sigil and Planescape. Click to expand...

There is a Gazeeter there for the area of the world that has been detailed in stories (The Tenth District). On the initial announcement interview for Dragon Talk, they discussed how the book is more going to supplement Chapter 3 of the DMG with oodles of tables for DIY adventure building in this Urban Fantasy genre (looks like most of Chapter 4 in this book, with the sample adventure following the Guild specific tables and guidelines for adventure generation), rather than detailed breakdowns of a planet-wide megacity. They also emphasized that they wanted these genre=specific tables to be useful to folks using other settings and homebrewing, so you can take the Cult of Radkos, file off the serial numbers,m and generate an adventure around a Cult of Orcus. This seems to match with what Mearls & Co. have been saying in recent years as to a new approach to settings as genre supplements to the base game. I can easily imagine a similar layout for Eberron and Dark Sun books.But there is nothing Planar or Cosmic here, and Gonzo Cosmic oddity would be a very viable concept for a similar genre setting book as outlined here, which would be very different in content.