D&D 4E 4e and My Setting: Can You Convince Me To Convert?

[Imban]

He said that it would take him another 6-8 months to develop his own setting with what he already has. Is it just me, or are there better things that one could do with that time? I would want to spend that time actually playing the game and developing parts of the setting as they come up. If the PCs never go to the Kingdom of Bingbang, why would you need to develop everything about Bingbang? If all of the adventuring for the first 10 levels will be in the Whatwasthat Jungle, then just develop the hell out of that jungle.

Some people are world-builders. They have a lot of fun developing fantasy worlds. Others aren't, and would rather just develop worlds on the fly to suit the needs of the game/story.

Think of Lord of the Rings, written by one of the most famous world-builders in fantasy literature, versus Conan, where only you find out that places exist approximately when Conan decides to go there.

 

[Mallus]

Anybody care to try to convince me?

Convince? No. Psychoanalyze... yes.

"So, GnomeWorks, how does the prospect of converting your elaborate homebrew setting to 4e make you feel?"

(You sound like an inveterate setting/rules tinkerer, wouldn't you enjoy the challenge of converting your material to a new rule set?)