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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Griffon" data-source="post: 649669" data-attributes="member: 9425">Yes to all of the above!Also: ditch Forgotten Realms material. Wait! Nobody start angrily typing yet! First, I admit that I do not use FR. The setting is too detailed for my tastes, and as I have seen others post it feels like playing in someone else's game. That said, there are more compelling reasons. Because of the sheer volume of background and flavor material connected to everything FR it does not fit easily into a generic D&amp;D campaign. Sure, that stuff can be stripped out, but in doing so you lose all of the charm of said material. I'm not against having a single issue each year devoted to FR, but I think that FR has enough of a following to support its own magazine. Or maybe a magazine that covers several &quot;official&quot; settings.Dragon should be kept generic D&amp;D. It is an extension of the core rules and a forum for the release of official errata, clarifications, and expansion on the ideas presented in the core books. If any setting should get regular attention it might be Greyhawk because that's what is in the core rulebooks. But I'm not really in favor of that either, because as Living Greyhawk gets more detailed it gets more susceptable to the same issue. I believe that the majority of players and DMs want generic material that helps them create their own world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silver Griffon, post: 649669, member: 9425"] Yes to all of the above! Also: ditch Forgotten Realms material. Wait! Nobody start angrily typing yet! First, I admit that I do not use FR. The setting is too detailed for my tastes, and as I have seen others post it feels like playing in someone else's game. That said, there are more compelling reasons. Because of the sheer volume of background and flavor material connected to everything FR it does not fit easily into a generic D&D campaign. Sure, that stuff can be stripped out, but in doing so you lose all of the charm of said material. I'm not against having a single issue each year devoted to FR, but I think that FR has enough of a following to support its own magazine. Or maybe a magazine that covers several "official" settings. Dragon should be kept generic D&D. It is an extension of the core rules and a forum for the release of official errata, clarifications, and expansion on the ideas presented in the core books. If any setting should get regular attention it might be Greyhawk because that's what is in the core rulebooks. But I'm not really in favor of that either, because as Living Greyhawk gets more detailed it gets more susceptable to the same issue. I believe that the majority of players and DMs want generic material that helps them create their own world. [/QUOTE]

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