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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3116546" data-attributes="member: 22424">Sense of wonder. Thrill of the unknown.Precisely because the player can't simply go out and buy and read all the books on a setting, and doesn't know what to expect, it's easier to surprise and delight players with a homebrew setting. It can be done with a pre-gen setting, to be sure, but it's harder IMO.Also, of course, there is a lot of ground that hasn't been covered by the existing settings. For example, for d20 Modern, I was working on an Elizabethan-themed steampunk/spelljammer crossover. To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing like that on the market.On the contrary, creating a good and detailed homebrew setting is far more effort than buying and learning a published setting. And, at least in my case, time is a far more valuable resource than money, so saving a few pounds is not my motivation when homebrewing.Just one more: perhaps you would do better to appreciate the efforts of those DMs who go to a lot of trouble to create worlds and campaigns for your enjoyment, and not just attack them as cheap and lazy? (That might not have been your intent, but your post sure sounded like an attack to me.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3116546, member: 22424"] Sense of wonder. Thrill of the unknown. Precisely because the player can't simply go out and buy and read all the books on a setting, and doesn't know what to expect, it's easier to surprise and delight players with a homebrew setting. It can be done with a pre-gen setting, to be sure, but it's harder IMO. Also, of course, there is a lot of ground that hasn't been covered by the existing settings. For example, for d20 Modern, I was working on an Elizabethan-themed steampunk/spelljammer crossover. To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing like that on the market. On the contrary, creating a good and detailed homebrew setting is far more effort than buying and learning a published setting. And, at least in my case, time is a far more valuable resource than money, so saving a few pounds is not my motivation when homebrewing. Just one more: perhaps you would do better to appreciate the efforts of those DMs who go to a lot of trouble to create worlds and campaigns for your enjoyment, and not just attack them as cheap and lazy? (That might not have been your intent, but your post sure sounded like an attack to me.) [/QUOTE]

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