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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8257419" data-attributes="member: 6684958">D&amp;D does not &quot;need&quot; a new setting.&nbsp; Worse they could not even do it in the current businesses practices.&nbsp; WotC only releases a couple books a year and makes them all super generic.&nbsp;&nbsp; So &quot;all&quot; D&amp;D gamers will buy &quot;all&quot; the books.A setting book(s) by it's very nature &quot;says&quot; to many gamers &quot;don't buy this book, you can't use it in your game...unless you use this setting&quot;.&nbsp; Like how Dark Sun has pages of rules of &quot;Hard Fun in the Desert&quot; that just don't fit in any other setting.&nbsp; So if you make a new setting The Primal Wastelands, full of animal people that use &quot;primal power&quot;, that is all useless to anyone playing &quot;core&quot; D&amp;D.&nbsp; But, wait....it gets worse.&nbsp; With the WoTC thing of &quot;A book once in a while&quot; you will never &quot;get&quot; the setting.&nbsp; Sure they can make a slim Campaign Setting book and fill it with vague stuff.&nbsp; Wow, the Land of Dancing Penguin Ninjas!&nbsp; But such a book is lucky to get like five paragraphs to describe a whole land.&nbsp; Same thing with races and setting and divine power and&nbsp; features and everything else.&nbsp; You'd get a baddy written glossed over vague mess of words.&nbsp; And you'd never get a source book on EACH land, or even land area.&nbsp; Or god.&nbsp; Or race.&nbsp; You'd be lucky if in a couple years they even put out a &quot;players guide&quot; or something like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 8257419, member: 6684958"] D&D does not "need" a new setting. Worse they could not even do it in the current businesses practices. WotC only releases a couple books a year and makes them all super generic. So "all" D&D gamers will buy "all" the books. A setting book(s) by it's very nature "says" to many gamers "don't buy this book, you can't use it in your game...unless you use this setting". Like how Dark Sun has pages of rules of "Hard Fun in the Desert" that just don't fit in any other setting. So if you make a new setting The Primal Wastelands, full of animal people that use "primal power", that is all useless to anyone playing "core" D&D. But, wait....it gets worse. With the WoTC thing of "A book once in a while" you will never "get" the setting. Sure they can make a slim Campaign Setting book and fill it with vague stuff. Wow, the Land of Dancing Penguin Ninjas! But such a book is lucky to get like five paragraphs to describe a whole land. Same thing with races and setting and divine power and features and everything else. You'd get a baddy written glossed over vague mess of words. And you'd never get a source book on EACH land, or even land area. Or god. Or race. You'd be lucky if in a couple years they even put out a "players guide" or something like that. [/QUOTE]

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