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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6061202">I can't honestly say, in my experience, I have never played a published setting outside some video-game translations of D&D(Eberron in DDO, Forgotten Realms in NWN and NWN2).  All my games and campaigns have either been "adventure till we drop" style where we're given some general guidelines and make it up from here, or homebrew campaigns, which I include EnWorld's own Burning Sky in.  I've played a few one-shot style dungeon crawls that may or may not have been tied to a particular setting, but on the whole I have not played any pre-defined game worlds.The problem I feel with making a specific setting "Core", is the problem presented with 4e's Dragonborn and Tieflings, which instead of using a generic background like Elves, Humans and numerous other species, specifically came from Bael Turath and Akroshia(sp) respectivly.  They lacked the more generic background given to them in other editions of simply being "demon blooded" or "dragon blooded" creatures.  With more and more material added on to them that referenced that history, it became difficult to extricate what should simply be half-breeds or anomolies of any setting, to any game.  If the background remains in the fluff, that's great, but when we start seeing spell-names reference it, feats, powers, maneuvers, backgrounds, themes, it really becomes hard to suspend your disbelief that we're actually in MY world and not THEIRS.  Which I honestly feel is a worse problem than having no unifying background, because it would demand that THEIR world be the bestest, most amazing incredible setting to ever be created.  The game should focus on general mechanics first and foremost.  Then it can overlay story elements as fluff upon them, and add story-specific crunch in the setting-specific books.</blockquote>

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