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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2422377" data-attributes="member: 8447">I've always prefered homebrew.  Part of the reason for this is because it is the way I started.  When I first got into gaming there were no pre-published worlds.  As such, I grew to create my own.One reason I am not fond of published worlds is a phenomenon I have seen and heard on far too many occassions -- "That's now what is says about [place X] in [fill in the blank supplement]!"  I have run across this sentiment in several different systems over time and always find it annoying, whether this be for Forgotten Realms, Middle-Earth, Star Wars, Harn, the Buffyverse or whatever else you wish to pull out.  When you create your own world, the world fits to your rules and nothing is there to contradict (except yourself, especially when you forget your notes... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  I don't run a lot of published adventures, either, simply because it usually take so much effort to convert them to fit my world that I end up getting very little from them.  This is not to say that I don't gleefully use features out of some of these worlds - my players have run across Hallowfaust under a different name, and with many differing details, but essentially the base city.  I have also run the adventure of The Broken Covenant of Calebais both for Ars Magica and, with a LOT of conversion, a D20 homebrew.I have nothing against other people using published worlds and adventures.  It's all good by me.  But when I run something, I simply feel better when I know that I am putting the world together, with the aid of my players, rather than having the world written for me by someone else.  As I have said before, for me, running someone else's world is like wearing someone else's clothing -- the fit is always just a bit off.</blockquote>

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