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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7799304" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Further to your point, you can easily play these without worrying about the larger setting. I never owned a forgotten realms setting book until 5e, I've never read any of the Forgotten Realms novels, and really knew nothing about the Realms other than vague recollections of Ed Greenwoods old articles in Dragon about conversations with some wizard named Elminster.  I've had no issues running or playing in any of the adventure books I've purchased and further find it pretty easy to take out parts of them to use in my homebrew campaign world. Personally, I think rather than try to pander to the long tail of settings enthusiasts with the main product line, they should open up all the old settings and allow the community to upgrade old materials to 5e. That could lead to some excellent print on demand books for other settings that will be as good or better than the main line. For example, I bought Heros of Balder's Gate as a POD book from DMs Guild and it is excellent, sitting proudly on my shelf with all my other 5e books.  It would be great if you could do the same for books of or based on Planescape, Darksun, Mystara, etc.   But I don't think that it is a good idea to dilute their main line with too many new (or renewed) settings.</blockquote>