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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3551897" data-attributes="member: 4937">Nothing is worse than a campaign world with an ongoing cannonical story line.The only good FR campaigns that I've seen are the ones that assume that the PC's are free to derail any of the cannonical events, and that once that happens then the campaign world will necessarily diverge from someone elses.I despise the notion that one DM's preferences should overrule everyone else's, even if they DM is the original creator.  I despise the notion that DM's need to be spoonfed a script.  I despise the notion of a railroad campaign world where you have to fear whether or not you are 'doing it right' and the PC's know that they'll never be as important to the campaign world as some other campaign's PC's.  No thanks.So, no.  I agree with thedungeondelver.  What you describe as a bug is actually a feature.  If I'm going to buy into published campaign setting, I'd like to buy into a static setting eternally set in a particular small time frame.  I can provide my own motion.  The  reason that a published campaign setting 'evolves' is not for my benefit, but just to sell more product.</blockquote>