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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6234688" data-attributes="member: 92511">annnnnd <incantation> "PASTE!"I can wait for the poll...and shall vote when it's up...but my responses will be the same.I'm a homebrew boy. Which, I expect, comes as no surprise to anyone here. hahaha.I began in the BECM/1e days with the, what I always thought to be  "typical", non-specific D&D setting. Yes, many of the classic  modules gave you locations for where they were in Greyhawk, but I never  ran a specifically "in Greyhawk" campaign. They [the 1e or BECM modules]  were more useful in the mode of "stick them anywhere you want/need",  for which they were well-suited, if not encouraged, for. I'm not 100% on  this, but I think we even ran a couple of the Dragonlance modules as/in  random settings, i.e. not in Krynn, itself.Over the years, the homebrew campaign world/setting became the  preference and then the norm and then the only option. If we weren't  playing in someone's specific setting, we were playing something other  than D&D. From time to time, one of our rotating DMs would say  "We're going to be in GH/FR/wherever." It was a shrug and a fine.Most of the time, though, the games revolved around a small region the  players knew or were from...the villains they were "after"/plots or  hooks they were pursuing/individual interests and such like came into  play. And we just went form there. A picture of a world formed, not as a  concrete map so much as a misty understanding. Not a specific "we're in  Keoland" or "Solamnia" or "Shadowdale."And, like a drop of ink on porous paper, once a campaign began in a  particular region of my [or another DM's!] homebrew, the whole thing  spread/seeped out from there. Sometimes we changed PCs...sometimes we  didn't even think about it...the characters were just there/wherever the adventure/story was happening.So, yeah...Homebrew #1. "Other" #2.[Added for this thread/seeing the poll options]I suppose, now, I am a homebrew puritan. I created my setting. I developed my setting. I know my setting like the back of my hand. I will be publishing my setting shortly. It's my setting and I love it. My [published] setting is not going to change depending on any new material or other settings' details/ideas.Traditionally, over the decades, I am and voted as a homebrew traditionalist. I love reading other setting material, adventure material, other systems, OSR games, et. al. material. Ideas are GREAT! I love 'em and will/have/enjoy using them. What occurs in other people's games and worlds interests me, even if their system or style does not.</blockquote>

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