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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9350856" data-attributes="member: 6915329">...that was my point to begin with.I didn't claim you did.You would be wrong on both thoughts here, so everything in your next paragraph is incorrect. Also kind of strange, because the writer/worldbuilder who was creating this hypothetical chapter would be writing and editing, and having other editors going over the chapter, probably multiple times before publishing, so of course it wouldn't be like a video--and I almost never watch gaming videos; I much prefer text. Well, you're correct in that I feel using an old setting would have a downside, and that downside would be it would make many new DMs compare their homebrew attempts to a published setting that has had up to 50 years of work going into it (Greyhawk is a lot more than just the village of Hommlet and it's surroundings, after all). There are going to be a lot of prospective DMs who spend one or more hours following the directions, only to be disillusioned when they think they're going to have to do that a hundred more times to get their own version of Greyhawk or the Realms or whatever other setting they like. Whereas with a new setting--even if this setting is never used for adventures or anything and is purely for this chapter--that baggage won't exist. The point of this particular hypothetical chapter isn't nostalgia or to have the writers show off their personal settings (which then would get yoinked by WotC), but to teach new worldbuilders.Also, the bit you wrote, about the dragon-sun and the vampires from the moon? That would actually be a good sidebar in this chapter. Not to build a world around those ideas, but to say "It's OK to to toss out the lore from the MM in order to do cool things in your setting." Because there are too many people who think you have to stick exactly with what the books say and are crippling their ability to have truly unique worlds because of that.</blockquote>

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