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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 8077940" data-attributes="member: 12386">The not-so-great tone aside, you do have to understand the prevailing gaming environment up through somewhere around 1987, when the forgotten realms gray box came out and there was a big push to use it.&nbsp; Up to then (and for quite a few years afterwards) there was essentially no established world that most DMs had access to- sure the Greyhawk folio had been around for a few years, and the Greyhawk box had come out in 1983, but- and I'm not exaggerating here- I was the only D&amp;D player (out of 30+ that I had met and played with) that owned either one.&nbsp; So the only recourse that every DM had, frankly, was to make his/her own world.&nbsp; Even the published modules were used very sparingly- many of the &quot;old timers&quot; back then (those who started in the 70's usually hadn't touched them past B1/B2.So yeah, someone who came into 5e (or PF, or 4e) would be really surprised regarding the current environment.&nbsp; Personally, I don't see how D&amp;D could possibly be so popular without the existence of the pre-published worlds and adventures.&nbsp; Sure, there are plenty of DMs that have the time to careful plot out their adventures, storylines and worlds.&nbsp; But plenty more (probably most, I'd say) just don't have that kind of time available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 8077940, member: 12386"] The not-so-great tone aside, you do have to understand the prevailing gaming environment up through somewhere around 1987, when the forgotten realms gray box came out and there was a big push to use it. Up to then (and for quite a few years afterwards) there was essentially no established world that most DMs had access to- sure the Greyhawk folio had been around for a few years, and the Greyhawk box had come out in 1983, but- and I'm not exaggerating here- I was the only D&D player (out of 30+ that I had met and played with) that owned either one. So the only recourse that every DM had, frankly, was to make his/her own world. Even the published modules were used very sparingly- many of the "old timers" back then (those who started in the 70's usually hadn't touched them past B1/B2. So yeah, someone who came into 5e (or PF, or 4e) would be really surprised regarding the current environment. Personally, I don't see how D&D could possibly be so popular without the existence of the pre-published worlds and adventures. Sure, there are plenty of DMs that have the time to careful plot out their adventures, storylines and worlds. But plenty more (probably most, I'd say) just don't have that kind of time available. [/QUOTE]

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