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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5607520" data-attributes="member: 46713">If I use a published setting as a base for my campaign I make it a point to deviate from canon. I want every player to know right from the start that it's _my_ campaign and knowing about canon won't help them in any way.However, if canon is so heavily ingrained in the setting and also impacts the content of supplements, the setting stops being of any interest to me. This happened e.g. with the advent of the 2e Revised Dark Sun Campaign Setting. Since my campaign world had developed differently from that point official products were mostly useless to me.Now I probably could have just stopped buying supplements and continue to do my thing, but for me as a DM to stay interested in a setting I really need fresh material regularly. So eventually, the campaign died because I lost interest, being basically disgusted by the new supplements.The same can be said for rulesets: I simply enjoy getting new rpg books regularly even if I never use them in actual play. But once I lose interest in a ruleset and stop buying books for it, I somehow also lose interest in playing (or at least DMing) it. E.g. my enthusiasm for 4e has taken a big hit after the 'Essentials incident'. So it's a good thing I'm not the DM right now, otherwise, any 4e campaign I might have started would probably wither and die right now.</blockquote>