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Do they? I started playing D&D in the 90's and even in that paleothilic era, my intro to fantasy was Final Fantasy, not Lord of the...

This is a matter of investment - player investment and DM investment. The players are not investing in the DM's setting and the DM isn't...

I'd love to see more proper setting books but I don't think it would solve much here since most DMs are going to homebrew their own...

Golarion is IMHO world building done to perfection. Rather than a multiverse of settings that don't have anything in common, you have...

Aka: "the first step to designing an interesting D&D setting is to first remove D&D from it."

That players rarely buy and read. Especially if it's for a single game and they have no interest in any mechanical elements in said...

I'm not talking about rules, I'm talking about the lore, the tl;dr part the players skip. The player who read just the PHB now has...

Not really. Because Elves in Oerth aren't the same as elves in Krynn, Eberron, Athas, or Ravenloft. So if I read in the PHB how elves...

The party encountered a village where the cats had become telepathic and were protecting humans that they had bonded to from a...

Eberron Artificer, Old vs New While I won't be doing a full review of Forge of the Artificer, at the very least I figured to cover its...

Cait Sith? Spiders Man?

Maybe, but at least initially, the OP seems to be conflating "unusual characters" with "characters with no connection to the setting". I...

At a certain point, we have to accept that this is a story made by humans for humans, and is thus not going to stray too far from a...