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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plecostomus" data-source="post: 9730957" data-attributes="member: 7040041">This year I decided to DM my first ever campaign. I chose the Dragonlance setting, which is a setting with I think over a hundred books? All of which I have never read. It took me about 2 months to wrap my head around what I wanted the setting to contribute to the actual campaign (Quests From the Infinite Staircase). For players, who I am 100% certain will not want to spend 2 months reading about Dragonlance, I made 5 slides conveying the 5 points about the setting that I thought were most important to character creation.So on the player front, I think as they can distill the setting down to a few slides, everything's cool. The bigger buy-in is from the DM, who kind of has to know how the world works. Luckily, DMs are more likely to want to read great big books about settings.For the Cosmere RPG specifically, the warning sign for me is that my current DM, a huge Sanderhead, is not interested in it. He talks about the books a lot. He apparently repurposes some of the characters for our current campaign. His interest in the books is so great that I read the first Stormlight Archives book just to see what was up. And when this RPG launched, he never said anything about it. I had to bring it up one day before our session, and he just kind of grunted? He said he wasn't sure and hadn't read anything about it. Seems ominous to me.</blockquote>