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<blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 3116321" data-attributes="member: 10638">I dont know what I find more annoying as a player:a)&nbsp; A DM who doesn't know jack about a published world he's runningor b)&nbsp; A DM who spends so much time dinking around with the extremities of his home world that he doesn't focus on the ONLY TWO THINGS THAT MATTER: plot adventures and issues necessary to character development.Examples:LIVING GREYHAWK.&nbsp; Half the writers and the majority of DMs running the RPGA's Living Greyhawk don't know ANYTHING about the world, history, politics, groups or religions.HOMEBREW.&nbsp; Got a friend with a 600 page world sourcebook, yet, the details are so useless (or worse, voluminous) that nobody can use them.I can tell you from years of experience of starting new gaming groups that YOU GET MORE NEW PLAYER BITES FROM ADVERTISEMENTS REGARDING PUBLISHED WORLDS AND POPULAR GAME SYSTEMS.&nbsp; It only makes sense that people are drawn to what they know..what they feel comfortable with.From my experience as a gamer, I've had just as much fun in homebrews as in published worlds..I just get disgusted when the players know more about the worlds than the DM..as is the reason why I dumped the FR back in the 90's and moved to greyhawk..only to dump that and move to Hyboria (nevermind the shoddy ConanRPG).jh..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emirikol, post: 3116321, member: 10638"] I dont know what I find more annoying as a player: a) A DM who doesn't know jack about a published world he's running or b) A DM who spends so much time dinking around with the extremities of his home world that he doesn't focus on the ONLY TWO THINGS THAT MATTER: plot adventures and issues necessary to character development. Examples: LIVING GREYHAWK. Half the writers and the majority of DMs running the RPGA's Living Greyhawk don't know ANYTHING about the world, history, politics, groups or religions. HOMEBREW. Got a friend with a 600 page world sourcebook, yet, the details are so useless (or worse, voluminous) that nobody can use them. I can tell you from years of experience of starting new gaming groups that YOU GET MORE NEW PLAYER BITES FROM ADVERTISEMENTS REGARDING PUBLISHED WORLDS AND POPULAR GAME SYSTEMS. It only makes sense that people are drawn to what they know..what they feel comfortable with. From my experience as a gamer, I've had just as much fun in homebrews as in published worlds..I just get disgusted when the players know more about the worlds than the DM..as is the reason why I dumped the FR back in the 90's and moved to greyhawk..only to dump that and move to Hyboria (nevermind the shoddy ConanRPG). jh .. [/QUOTE]

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