Mouseferatu
Hero
I like D&D. I like D&D doing those subgenres. I don't care if other settings do those subgenres better, I want to play them in D&D and/or play the D&D version of them. Dark Sun isn't generic sword-and-sorcery or sword-and-planet, it's specifically a D&D version thereof, and that's part of what I really enjoy about it. I enjoy Eberron because it brings pulp and noir to D&D, not for the pulp and noir in a vacuum.
To me, these settings aren't D&D trying to emulate a genre, they are genre-flavored D&D. That still includes changing core assumptions. D&D without changes to the core assumptions isn't genre-flavored D&D, it's D&D with delusions of genre flavor.
To me, these settings aren't D&D trying to emulate a genre, they are genre-flavored D&D. That still includes changing core assumptions. D&D without changes to the core assumptions isn't genre-flavored D&D, it's D&D with delusions of genre flavor.