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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 5203822" data-attributes="member: 5122">I dislike any campaign setting that has "official" metaplot and timeline advancement.This even lessens my love for Shadowrun, which is otherwise IMO one of the greatest campaign settings ever published.  It doesn't ruin my love for Shadowrun because SR is so dependent upon "bleeding-edge" tech and the ramifications of it, so updating the world is semi-excusable.(But I've said many times that a products I would gladly buy for SR is a collection of timelines of events (mundane and magical) and advances (tech and magical) in the SR universe, so that, for example, instead of feeling forced to begin play in the current SR year of 2072, I could begin in 2050, or 2063, or whatever, and have a good idea what information and equipment to make available to my players.)I'm also biased against any campaign setting that has world-shakingly powerful -- personal power, not political power -- NPCs that regularly interact with the PCs.  There are a number of reasons for my dislike of this, most of which have been discussed at length on EN World, so no need to hash them out here.Put those two dislikes together, and the only campaign setting I'm familiar with that I "hate" is Forgotten Realms.  And it doesn't help that the production values for FR products in the 3E era helped make other campaign settings look like red-headed stepchildren.</blockquote>