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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9235255" data-attributes="member: 7044220">That's exactly why I think that the 5e monoculture is often bad for creativity and diversity. I suspect that a lot of creators try to make their scenarios/settings hew to 5e because they hope it will lead to more sales, when their ideas might be better suited to other systems. A lot of the 5e audience then won't care for their deviations from the D&D formula, and a lot of people who might be interested in something different might not even check it out, because it's just another 5e supplement to them. Meanwhile, creative vision gets muddled by D&D tropes.I don't want to claim that settings like Redsky, for example, are written for 5e "for the money"; Redsky is probably well-designed in terms of rules and adapts 5e to work for the setting, and the authors are probably actually using 5e for the setting and not something else; but I still can't help wondering whether a setting like it could have been published just as succesfully for another system, or with its own bespoke system, that might have been a better fit, weren't it for the current 5e monoculture.</blockquote>