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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9734913" data-attributes="member: 66357">I am by no means opposed to trying new things, exploring new worlds, telling new stories, etc., but we are a species of storytellers and we've been creating new/updated takes on old stories and gradually figuring out how/if to work them into the collective consciousness for millennia.We may be thinking about it in terms of a specific TTRPG setting or media franchise, but consider a comparison to mythology: To paraphrase Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions, people have been writing Greek mythology fanfiction since before there was Greek mythology. The entire concept of syncretism is about one mythological tradition bumping up against another, and then finding ways to integrate the new stories and characters they hear about into their existing mythological framework.Any shared "setting" inevitably changes with the times and the people telling stories within it - that's true regardless of whether the version of the setting your working from is a new "official" update or an older version you've been building upon "unofficially" for decades.The only other option is that people stop telling stories and the setting dies out.</blockquote>