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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3655037" data-attributes="member: 8439">Since I haven't run a canon setting outside of GURPS Discworld, I haven't had the oppertunity to encounter these canon fanatics you speak of... But I can see why a sane, non fanatical person might prefer to run by canon if you are running a large published setting.One of the disadvantages of homebrewed worlds is that in addition to discovering the world, players are often "discovering" the area their characters have supposedly lived their entire lives in. In a canon setting, you have the comfort of (if you choose to) actually knowing where your character is from, picking a location that works well with your character concept, even showing other PCs around your home town. Making characters in the STAP or an Eberron game held advantages to me over a pure homebrew in that I didn't have to ask the DM "is there a place where X Y and Z hold true?" because I could see from the setting materials that there it was, or close enough for me to work around. (the DM probably liked that method better as well.) There is a certain level of comfort in a canon setting that your DM won't suddenly tell you that no one in his world drinks ale but baby eaters and by ordering it you have doomed your party to outcast status - and if you wanted to know this about your hometown bar you should have invested in Knowledge Local.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The advantage of a homebrew setting, of course is that you might get a chance to roleplay in a different sort of world and do things with your characters not possible in a canon setting. That can be cool too and you know that's what you're aiming for in a homebrew.But when the DM says "I'm running FR, but it's my FR, not the canon FR" a cynical player might get the feeling that he's in for a worst of both worlds expereince. There is the potential for a "Mwa HA! In my FR everyone in this city hates elves, though you being an elf raised within a days ride of the place have never heard this!" without the hope of a truely non standard world.</blockquote>

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