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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Fox" data-source="post: 7081370" data-attributes="member: 6794761"><p>In today's Dragon Talk podcast, Mike Mearls talks about Tales from the Yawning Portal...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/mike-mearls-tales-yawning-portal" target="_blank">http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/mike-mearls-tales-yawning-portal</a></p><p></p><p>But buried among the discussion, he also dives into a talk on other settings - particularly him wanting to do Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>The relevant bit gets started around 1:04:28. He says that as a design strategy, he wants individual settings to have different flavours. Like, how can you make each one almost feel like a different genre of fantasy?</p><p></p><p>He says that he doesn't want to get into a situation where anyone has to ask, "what's the difference between the Realms and Greyhawk?" Instead, it's self-evident. He says that he sees it as an interesting design challenge: to take the things that makes a setting distinct and putting them front and center, but without having people who love the setting feeling like its been changed too much.</p><p></p><p>Mearls goes on to say that they've been working away steadily and talking about settings more than people suspect.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, check it out for yourself. The discussion about settings is short - it goes on for less than two minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bad Fox, post: 7081370, member: 6794761"] In today's Dragon Talk podcast, Mike Mearls talks about Tales from the Yawning Portal... [URL]http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/mike-mearls-tales-yawning-portal[/URL] But buried among the discussion, he also dives into a talk on other settings - particularly him wanting to do Greyhawk. The relevant bit gets started around 1:04:28. He says that as a design strategy, he wants individual settings to have different flavours. Like, how can you make each one almost feel like a different genre of fantasy? He says that he doesn't want to get into a situation where anyone has to ask, "what's the difference between the Realms and Greyhawk?" Instead, it's self-evident. He says that he sees it as an interesting design challenge: to take the things that makes a setting distinct and putting them front and center, but without having people who love the setting feeling like its been changed too much. Mearls goes on to say that they've been working away steadily and talking about settings more than people suspect. Anyway, check it out for yourself. The discussion about settings is short - it goes on for less than two minutes. [/QUOTE]
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