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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7495366" data-attributes="member: 6779196">It’s hard to draw a clear line between where personalizing a setting ends and homebrewing an alternate version of a setting begins. Especially because any given tweak probably wouldn’t be enough to push a setting over that line on its own; it’s more the cumulative effect of many small changes that have a net result of leaving the setting no longer recognizable as itself.I feel like this is what’s happening with Mike Mearls’ interpretation of Nentir Vale. He started from the core assumptions of 4e’s implied setting and tweaked to his liking from there. Which to be fair, is exactly how Nentir Vale was intended to be used. But, after a while, his personal flourishes added up, to the point that, for me at least, the setting he occasionally tweets about is no longer recognizable to me as Nentir Vale. It’s a cool setting, to be sure, but to me it’s far enough removed from the source material that I would call it homebrewed.Now, I think the “for me” part is important. For others, it might still look very much like Nentir Vale with a few small personalized touches. And I don’t think either of us would be wrong. It’s pretty subjective, how much alteration one can tolerate before viewing it as its own separate thing.</blockquote>