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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8703003" data-attributes="member: 6801845">If people want lore, there's plenty of options between old publications, DmsGuild and the FR wiki.&nbsp; Whether there &quot;should&quot; be more is personal opinion or whether a lighter touch is &quot;hideous&quot; is personal opinion.&nbsp; Personally?&nbsp; I disagree.&nbsp; Get too much lore and you run into the issue that there's no room for DMs to fill in the blanks to make it their own.&nbsp; It also leads to DMs feeling like they have to provide that much detail if they create their own setting.&nbsp; That and there will frequently be that one person at the table that will correct the DM because the proprietor of the Stinky Feet Tavern &amp; Inn is really a one eyed tiefling named Brazzit who is secretly a member of the purple cloak gang that has a limp.&nbsp; The DM didn't include the limp and said they were missing their left eye instead of their right, which is a major continuity issue which must be corrected post haste!&nbsp; Oh, and their PC obviously knows about their super secret affiliation.Obviously I'm exaggerating a teensy bit on that last part, but I think there's a middle ground.&nbsp; Where that middle ground should be is something I'm not going to speculate on, all I can say is that I don't need or want a 200 page book of lore.&nbsp; It sounds cool, but keeping it all straight, adding value with it all?&nbsp; Not easy.&nbsp; A publication like the CR based ones have the advantage of having the creator of the world actively involved and a clean slate but even then I think it's a niche market in a niche hobby.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8703003, member: 6801845"] If people want lore, there's plenty of options between old publications, DmsGuild and the FR wiki. Whether there "should" be more is personal opinion or whether a lighter touch is "hideous" is personal opinion. Personally? I disagree. Get too much lore and you run into the issue that there's no room for DMs to fill in the blanks to make it their own. It also leads to DMs feeling like they have to provide that much detail if they create their own setting. That and there will frequently be that one person at the table that will correct the DM because the proprietor of the Stinky Feet Tavern & Inn is really a one eyed tiefling named Brazzit who is secretly a member of the purple cloak gang that has a limp. The DM didn't include the limp and said they were missing their left eye instead of their right, which is a major continuity issue which must be corrected post haste! Oh, and their PC obviously knows about their super secret affiliation. Obviously I'm exaggerating a teensy bit on that last part, but I think there's a middle ground. Where that middle ground should be is something I'm not going to speculate on, all I can say is that I don't need or want a 200 page book of lore. It sounds cool, but keeping it all straight, adding value with it all? Not easy. A publication like the CR based ones have the advantage of having the creator of the world actively involved and a clean slate but even then I think it's a niche market in a niche hobby. [/QUOTE]

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