Discussion with the players

Last session of my weekly rpg I spent about an hour talking with the players about what they might want to see in the next D&D (or clone) campaign. The following are the replies I got:

• Heroic Fights against hordes of lowly monsters (with fighters getting one attack per level).
• Hate level draining.
• let's start at 1st level again
• let's start at 3rd level
• start off with more money
• fight a massive war/military campaign *
  
• more magic
• Rangers
• Cheesie Barbarians
• Dusk Blades (<- fighter/MU's ???)
• Assassins
• 2 or more characters per player
• Developed Base Town the players can care about *
  
• More puzzles *
  
• More politics *
  
• Having a PC with an actual job
• Legendary unique items
• More detailed swordplay, at least for duels
• Active factions/guilds
• More verisimilitude
  
• More campaign knowledge (player wanted to learn abotu campaign and have the knowledge matter)
• Primitive Firearms
• Forestry
• StarGate style world hopping
• No Arabs (???)
• No modern weaponry but fashioned firearms okay.
• No Daleks (pretty funny considering next item in list)
  
• Time Travel
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Traveling Salesmen/Peddlers *
• Archer class
• City Setting
• Pray for divine intervention
  
• More involvement with Gods*
• No paying for Exp *
  
• Cantrips
• More social interaction *
  
• More options in spell casting
• More active gods and spirits *
  
• Weapon speed *
  
• Weapon Proficiencies *
  
• Equipment maintenance
  
• Thief backstab having a wider range of possibilities
• More non-violent encounters *
  
• class based exp
  
• after death negotiation/springing friends from the dead *
  

* - Got lot's of mutual agreement from the players

Hmmmm a few of those could be a little difficult to work in together. What I found interesting was no one mentioned races or genre and the players was actually enthusiastic when I encouraged discussion and not just a couple comments.