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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 8966723" data-attributes="member: 6747251">If it were true, it means that every campaign setting in D&D is derived, in some fractured way, from the First World that is no more.  I feel this damages the value of those other worlds because they were created, in the real world, with the assumption that they existed in their own right, not as broken and twisted copies of some other world that was invented by a new set of game designers in a supplemental product many years into an edition literally less than two years ago.  I feel that they are lesser than they were if you accept the legend of the First World.Now, if it is just a legend, and not backed up in future products (like the upcoming giant book) then it becomes, as I've said more than once now, a piece of lore I don't personally like and would not use.  I don't use dragons much at all anyway, so that wouldn't really be that difficult for me.  But I am on record as caring about D&D's settings as a continuing story, not much different from Star Wars, Star Trek, Middle-Earth, or the comics version of the Marvel Universe, and don't like it when current management messes with (false) history.</blockquote>