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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6950552" data-attributes="member: 6785785">But it's not the only thing I mentioned, is it? I only mentioned harming in reply to your mention of benefit. Because clearly whatever product comes from this could be great. In which case, many would benefit. But I also said that the adventure must stand on its own and not rely solely on the gimmick of using the shared D&D cosmology. Ultimately, the adventure (if that's indeed what comes of all this) will be good or bad largely due to its own merits, and the crossover appeal will most likely neither make nor break it. Well the adventure that took the Tomb of Horrors and elevated it beyond a location on Oerth has already been written. And it's a great adventure. Far better than the original. It took what Gygax had put down...which was pretty much just his player breaker ("oh you think you're good at D&D?")...and gave it all a story. A story that moves things beyond the world of Greyhawk. So the insistence seems odd. Especially when your main point seems to be purely aesthetic. "Use a Forgotten Realms lich with its own mega dungeon". Certainly they could do so...they also could have used a vampire other than Strahd. The point seems to be that have an idea about that specific vampire...or lich...that they'd like to tell. There is a whole level of lore at play that maybe you are not aware of. And there are those of us who like the shared universe of D&D's cosmology. My campaign takes place across Faerun, Oerth, Golarion, a home brewer world, and Athas, all connected by Sigil and the planes. So nods to that larger world...which has long been established...are something I enjoy quite a bit. Is there an element of targeted nostalgia at play in cases like this? Sure. Does that mean that must be all there is to it? Of course not. Does it mean an adventure must be terrible? Of course not. Each of their adventures has had at least a pinch of nostalgia in the mix. No no one is taking Westeros and smashing it together with Faerun, which is more what your examples would equate to. Faerun and oerth are already connected. It's canon. Based on the things I've seen you say about canon, your stance here seems a bit at odds .</blockquote>

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