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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8253085" data-attributes="member: 18">But is that actually true? Like, is it actually his high school campaign world, or is it in fact a version of that that's been developed on and off for decades, and/or wholly revised at some point?You're looking at it like it's not marketing to say that, and like it's purely a vanity project, when I suspect it's more like this is a setting which incorporates elements of that setting and is using it as a nostalgic marketing appeal to a million DMs who like this dude's work and never got to make their high school campaign world into an official setting.Like, literally nothing about it that we've seen so far particularly screams &quot;high school&quot;, so I'm unconvinced. In fact, what it actually screams to me is &quot;early 20s&quot;. The races/classes with the possible exception of the Wraithblade aren't teenager-bait, and in fact Monks and Warlocks didn't even exist when Metzen was a teenager, given he's 47 (I mean, he might have played a Monk in late 1E but I'm VERY skeptical he was running 1E in the 1990s). The races are missing the over-muscled WWE-ish warrior-types and hot-chicks-only races that scream &quot;high school campaign&quot;. Plus the tattoo magic deal is more 20s than teens. I suspect part of the success he's seeing is the pricing, too - I was expecting a more premium pricing on this - I haven't back it but given the quality of the artwork and so on, it looks like it's pretty good for $25.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8253085, member: 18"] But is that actually true? Like, is it actually his high school campaign world, or is it in fact a version of that that's been developed on and off for decades, and/or wholly revised at some point? You're looking at it like it's not marketing to say that, and like it's purely a vanity project, when I suspect it's more like this is a setting which incorporates elements of that setting and is using it as a nostalgic marketing appeal to a million DMs who like this dude's work and never got to make their high school campaign world into an official setting. Like, literally nothing about it that we've seen so far particularly screams "high school", so I'm unconvinced. In fact, what it actually screams to me is "early 20s". The races/classes with the possible exception of the Wraithblade aren't teenager-bait, and in fact Monks and Warlocks didn't even exist when Metzen was a teenager, given he's 47 (I mean, he might have played a Monk in late 1E but I'm VERY skeptical he was running 1E in the 1990s). The races are missing the over-muscled WWE-ish warrior-types and hot-chicks-only races that scream "high school campaign". Plus the tattoo magic deal is more 20s than teens. I suspect part of the success he's seeing is the pricing, too - I was expecting a more premium pricing on this - I haven't back it but given the quality of the artwork and so on, it looks like it's pretty good for $25. [/QUOTE]

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