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Well, kinda/sorta. Most Romans didn't come from further afield. But, that's not really the point. In a setting that large - say a very large island about 1000 miles in diameter (that's damn near a continent really), you have MORE than enough space to plonk down all 11 races, have enough...

I think stepping away from the D&D family might be a good idea here. Something like Ironsworn-Delve would fit your bill perfectly. I've never played it, but @pemerton has recommended Five Torches Deep many times. Although, as you say, that's OSR. But, there are games out there that are light...

I think this, right here, is the basic issue. This is something that is quite common IME. It's not that players don't care. It's that they will never care as much as you do about your setting. If you're DMing, you're thinking about this stuff all the time. When you design a scenario, the...

But, generally, that's not the issue. No one has a problem with having objectively evil sapient beings in D&D. The dev's certainly don't and neither do any of the critics. The problem is when you have objectively evil sapient NATURAL beings. As in stuff that is an actual species that...

Oh, totally. I was all set on this very Kafka-esque adventure where things were very, very weird, and the players were just totally lost. Not only did they completely expect a totally different adventure based on their own assumptions of the Feywild, they didn't even agree with each other what...

But, if you read the team roster of the team, and a player isn't mentioned on the roster, why would you assume that that player plays for that team? When we have multiple examples of various people in the mercenary guilds of Baldur's Gate, and have had several examples presented in other cities...

Yes, that's the point isn't it? If low magic/low fantasy is your bag, I really, really couldn't imagine using D&D for it. There are so many other systems out there that are much better suited to that kind of campaign. While I get the idea of wanting to pound square pegs into round holes...

I remember years ago in my 2e days running into this. I billed my campaign as low magic because I didn't use a lot of casters and magic items were pretty rare. My player pointed out that it really wasn't very low magic since there were all sorts of fantastic monsters running around, many of...

Heh. Thank you so much Planescape. :( And people get annoyed with me for complaining that Planescape has forced so much onto other settings.

Isn't this precisely what WotC did for the first half or so of 5e? Every adventure was specifically set in Forgotten Realms and not even the whole Realms, but, specifically the Sword Coast? Sure, we got Ravenloft, but, it would really be 2019 with Ghosts of Saltmarsh that we actually got...

I smacked into this in a recent campaign. Two of the PC's had backgrounds that they were from the Feywild. One was an owlkin, the other was dragonborn. Both fantastic players that I love to pieces. We were running the Candlekeep Mysteries campaign. So, in one of the adventures, the party...

Pathfinder would like to have a word. As would nearly every other RPG on the market - Vampire, Traveller, Star Wars, Star Trek, on and on and on.

Heh. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. I like the WotC 5e publishing schedule, so, obviously the flood of Golarian material wouldn't fit in that schedule. But a single AP with a setting supplement that covered a small area (for a given definition of small - like I said, I'm...

Not sure where that is coming from. A PC half-dragon was virtually unheard of due to the Level Adjustments needed. They were very much not a popular choice among 3.5 players. That was why 4e brought in Dragonborn. There had never been a viable "dragon race" in D&D previously. Vecna rebooted...

Heh. That's always a problem - nailing down what "low magic" actually means. :D Honestly, while I'm not a Pathfinder player, I find Paizo's approach to setting evolution to be absolutely the gold standard. Each region gets an adventure path and then a MOUNTAIN of information about that...

At least that's refreshingly honest. :erm: And, frankly, IME, pretty much how most players approach a campaign.

Now, if we're talking about a wish list of what we personally would like to see? Me, a 2024 setting would be small. I don't want a world. I want a continent, at most. From the central point, figure 3 weeks travel on horseback - so, a rough circle 500 miles in radius? Thereabouts. That's...

Just to add. I used FATE as an example, and that was perhaps a poor choice on my point. The point I was trying to make is that there are lots of games out there where your character does start very loosely sketched in and it's during play that details start fleshing out the character. The...

Just to clarify my point. The OP talks about how he finds it jarring that groups do not reflect the campaign setting. My solution to that was to suggest that the main problem is that character generation is often done in isolation, away from the group and therefore, to fix the problem, don't...

Heh. Fair enough. I can't even imagine what a 2024 Low Magic, Low Fantasy setting would look like. This is very much not the system I would use for that setting.