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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 6304920" data-attributes="member: 6688049">From Genericized Setting to Pluri-Adapted SettingsNerath is a "False Un-Setting". Just because Nerath has distilled and mashed together D&D tropes from various settings doesn't make it an Un-Setting.In a similar way, the "genericized" 2E adventure "Return to the Keep on the Borderlands" was a false generic mini-setting. It was also a false Greyhawk and false Mystara mini-setting. It had random Babylonian gods and a mish-mash of Mystaran and Greyhawk proper names--making it a bastardized spawn which was incongruent with both.I'm not advocating for a Genericized Setting, or Genericized Adventures.Through my suggestion, all the published worlds would flourish. The economically lucrative setting(s)--notably, Forgotten Realms--would still be the usual "parenthetic" setting for adventures and sourcebooks. Such adventures would be fully formed as a FR adventure, with the (Zhentarim), (Harpers), (Elminster), (Faerun) as the default map, FR novel tie-ins, and so forth. Yet, for every adventure and sourcebook, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/d-d-worlds" target="_blank">*all* the published settings (</a>Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Dark Sun, Mystara, Dragonlance, Birthright, Eberron, Ravenloft, Nerath, Pelinore, Spelljammer, Planescape) would have at least a paragraph of adaptation notes as a Web Enhancement. Plus, a "Homebrew Name Chart" which offers, say, three alternate names for each major NPC and place. Rather than a Genericized Setting, the Un-Setting would be a "Pluri-Adaptation with Homebrew Options Baked In".If the RttKotB were written with the Un-Setting concept, it would be placed explicitly in, say, Greyhawk, with the official Yeomanry placement as the basis for the "parenthetic" proper names. In an appendix or web-enhancement, the official placement in Mystara (Karameikos) and Nerath (the Chaos Scar) would be mentioned. And one or more suggested placements in FR, DL, BR, DS, BM, SJ, PS would be offered, along with proper name changes and any necessary monster changes.ENworlders, have you anything more to say?</blockquote>

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