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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9349108" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Because demonstration is an excellent way to teach others how to do something. A new setting, where the book itself walks through its creation, would empower DMs by showing them even as it tells them.But personally, I don't think new is strictly necessary. You can do this with old settings too, if you're reinventing them. The only meaningful difference I can see is that, with a new setting, everyone is new to it, so they kinda have to read about it to know what it is and contains.I find it difficult to relate to or care about a map alone. For words to have meaning and names to have power, we must be brought into their home, their world, their time. A map alone does not do that. It leaves me just sort of staring. I can, eventually, get something built up that makes use of that map. But it would be easier, faster, and more productive if I had more to work with, and the map is not that useful once I have that "more."All I can say is, things like the Dawn War, the tragedy of Arkhosia and Bael Turath, and the loss of Cendriane stick with me far better than any map could. A map has its uses. It doesn't tell me why I should care about any of these places, nor what is(/was) happening in any of them.</blockquote>