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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForeverSlayer" data-source="post: 5656232" data-attributes="member: 91812">It's actually easier to ignore what is already there than to completely create something from nothing.  Leaving the work up to the individual just screams laziness as a designer when it comes to a premade campaign setting.  They could have easily taken the PoL generic setting and made it like they did the Forgotten Realms while leaving the Forgotten Realms just the way it was.  I can almost promise you that if they had left the Realms intact then they would have had a hell of a lot more people buying it and begging for more than what they have today.  Forgotten Realms is all about the stories and the NPC's that they involve.  If you didn't like the NPC's then you didn't use them, if you didn't like the particular history then you didn't use it.  It's just that simple. There is no hard explanation for it, it's just that simple.  Points of Light: Barebones setting for DMs to use and make up whatever he/she wants.Forgotten Realms: Setting full of deep and rich history that is made possible by the NPC's as well as PC's coming in and carving their own notch in the history books.</blockquote>