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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 3940457" data-attributes="member: 8863">My take is that too much official fluff makes it harder for DMs to homebrew.  D&D has almost always had official campaign settings, but it's always been generic enough so a DM could create his own setting if he or she wanted to.  The more fluff the rules have, the less creative freedom it gives to a DM.  And for DMs who've been running homebrews for years, their campaign fluff has probably reached a point where it becomes difficult to use new fluff ideas that clash with established campaign elements.   Players, especially newer ones will invariably want to use some element of the newer fluff.  So either the DM outright disallows it, and eventually causes conflict at the game table, or it just sticks out like a sore thumb. That's why a lot of the old grognards have rejected stuff that was later released for Greyhawk; it was originally designed to be very open-ended so the DMs could customize it, and the later stuff just didn't mess with some of the customization they were doing.  Or look at the Realms; that's been around pretty long too, and some people don't like that 4e's assumptions are turning some aspects of the setting inside out.  Yeah, change does happen, but remember that people also tend to dislike a lot of radical changes, especially when it comes to leisure activities.Even when it's newer stuff, some DMs want to be able to shape things their own way.  That seems to be the argument with the Golden Wyvern whatever.  I have no idea what that is, some posters in this thread said it's supposed to represent some wizardly order or something.  Even if a DM doesn't have a problem with the name itself, the name stifles some amount of creativity.  Maybe the DM would rather name the wizard orders himself, rather than having them already "forced" upon them by a book.  Putting in a name like this makes it more difficult for a DM to homebrew, and some DMs have a very strong preference for their own worlds.</blockquote>

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