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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 4475393" data-attributes="member: 5868">Metaplots in campaign settings have never worked for me.&nbsp; I hate them with a passion.&nbsp; Metaplots are for DMs, not publishers -- the DM should have maximum flexibility to take his/her game where it will without having to worry about that being erased in the next campaign supplement.&nbsp; I've found in my own campaigns that I've always had to &quot;undo&quot; things from later publications if I'm to run a campaign in a setting where the books are available for players.&nbsp; Examples: 3E FRCS -- &quot;ignore anything it says about the destruction of Tilverton.&nbsp; The town is still there and is quite normal&quot;; Greyhawk: &quot;Ignore references to a country run by the Scarlet Brotherhood.&nbsp; They're a shadowy secret society that none of your characters has ever heard of ...&quot;. I'd much prefer campaign settings that are static ... they come out set in 576 CY or 1357 DR (or whatever) and then never advance an iota.&nbsp; Subsequent supplements detail a specific area, but are set in the same timeframe.&nbsp; Adventures might show relations between various groups, but don't advance any particular &quot;plot&quot;.&nbsp; That leaves setting advancement wide open to DMs (or Living campaigns) and means that you can pick up a setting book or restart a campaign without needing the history of what has gone before ...Except it doesn't sell more books, or revised campaign settings, since the publisher needs to differentiate the &quot;new &amp; improved&quot; product from the one that came beforein order to resell the &quot;new&quot; version of the campaign setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 4475393, member: 5868"] Metaplots in campaign settings have never worked for me. I hate them with a passion. Metaplots are for DMs, not publishers -- the DM should have maximum flexibility to take his/her game where it will without having to worry about that being erased in the next campaign supplement. I've found in my own campaigns that I've always had to "undo" things from later publications if I'm to run a campaign in a setting where the books are available for players. Examples: 3E FRCS -- "ignore anything it says about the destruction of Tilverton. The town is still there and is quite normal"; Greyhawk: "Ignore references to a country run by the Scarlet Brotherhood. They're a shadowy secret society that none of your characters has ever heard of ...". I'd much prefer campaign settings that are static ... they come out set in 576 CY or 1357 DR (or whatever) and then never advance an iota. Subsequent supplements detail a specific area, but are set in the same timeframe. Adventures might show relations between various groups, but don't advance any particular "plot". That leaves setting advancement wide open to DMs (or Living campaigns) and means that you can pick up a setting book or restart a campaign without needing the history of what has gone before ... Except it doesn't sell more books, or revised campaign settings, since the publisher needs to differentiate the "new & improved" product from the one that came beforein order to resell the "new" version of the campaign setting. [/QUOTE]

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