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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9104613" data-attributes="member: 50987">Well, first you need to understand something about me:  I own a lot of different campaign settings.  Way too many, actually.  I own Forgotten Realms in three different D&D editions (AD&D, 3E, and 5E), and I own Eberron in two (3E and 5E).  I also own the old Ghostwalk campaign setting, the even-older Mystara, Hollow World, and Red Steel campaign settings, and I'm a contributing author for the Nyambe campain setting.  I've got non-D&D campaign settings (Pathfinder, Esper Genesis) also.  Heck, just a couple of days ago I got the Venture Maidens campaign setting in the mail, and I put it on the shelf with my other Kickstarter-backed campaign settings (Lost Lights, Seas of Vodari, Old Gods of Appalachia, Humblewood...I backed so many Kickstarters...)A reasonable person might ask, "Why do you own so many campaign settings?"   The best answer I've got is:  I really like seeing what other people are doing with the D&D rules set.It's a lot like watching a cooking show, where a lot of different cooks and chefs are all cooking different things from the same ingredients.  Or maybe it's like installing mods for video games: it's really fun to see the changes that people are making for Skyrim or Stardew Valley, and how it changes the experience of the game.  The big-budget, high-production campaign settings like Forgotten Realms and Eberron were created to sell books, and so they have lots of added content and fan-created lore--but they largely feel the same to me.  The smaller, lesser-known campaign settings are my favorites, because they are often the most original, and what they lack in massive production value they make up for in creativity--and they give the most insight into what someone else's game table is like.Sorry, that was a lot of lead-up.  On to your question:  what do I like about Wildemount?Well, Wildemount gives me the best of both worlds.  It enjoys a larger budget and fan base than most campaign settings out there, but still manages to keep a lot of that rustic, homebrew feel that Matt Mercer and his friends put into it.  It's big, but it's not SO big that everything bleeds together into a gray mess.  It's small, but you can tell that it's a labor of love: everything that made it into the book is there because someone at the table thought it was cool, not because they thought it would sell.  And it's a fun read, too!  It borrows from a lot of familiar sources--Pathfinder, 4th Edition/Nenitr Vale, Ravenloft--so there are lots of "Easter eggs" for you and your players to discover.  I like what they did with the ingredients.Anyway, sorry for the rambling answer to your straightforward question.</blockquote>

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