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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2418962" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'll agree with this.  I thought the idea of a big setting search, taking submissions from the fans was a really neato idea.  I didn't send one in (not having a homebrew setting of my own), but I watched as other DM's sent in their ideas (and having played in a few of those settings myself, and knowing the details of those settings, I knew how good they were).  I was excited, the idea of a D&D setting taken from the masses, a homebrew getting the ultimate honor of being made official.  The first blurbs were vague, and kept my interest.Then it started getting wacky.  Robot PC's & magic railroads.  A futuristic Coruscant-like supercity in D&D, and the artificial conceit of there being no high level NPC's yet the world is very high magic.  So you have airships (I like Final Fantasy too much to bash airships though), and magic railroads and flying cars, but high level casters are ultra rare and the PC's are the duly appointed people to regularly save the world.  The setting even seemed to have very modern attitudes about warfare, politics, and class.  It started looking like some weird high-magic/low-level D&D steampunk game that seemed more like a Victorian-era d20 Modern game with a lot of D&D elements ported in.  Then the setting comes out, and it's not so much steampunk as spellpunk, and some of the perceptions were bungled marketing, but I don't want anything-punk as a main D&D setting.  When it was a brand new concept, I was enthusiastic, but as soon as they decided to make it a huge deviation from the Tolkienesque medieval European into a pseudo 1920's pulp blending the 20th century with D&D I stopped liking it.  Admittedly, they could have done a feudal Asian themed setting too and I would probably have liked that, or something truly fantastic (like Planescape or Spelljammer were), but the more I saw of it, the less I liked it.</blockquote>

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