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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9647035" data-attributes="member: 18">This is very true. We might moan about some cool older settings being MIA because they've effectively been IP vaulted by WotC, but they're usually at least available as PDFs of the old books, and what we're getting today is insanely more diverse in every possible meaning of the word diverse than what we were getting even 20 years ago, let alone in the 1990s or earlier.Re: Alternity I personally found the settings for it pretty dire as well so I feel like it's a bit strange to see people praising them as if they were angelic creations from a better age.Dark*Matter sounded cool and zeitgeisty on paper, but some insane reason, it took a very weird and specific right-wing approach to conspiracies (with tons of bonus xenophobia and racism), which I've written about before <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/disney-to-reboot-x-files-disney-owns-an-insane-amount-of-fantasy-sci-fi-ip.701729/page-7#post-9226756" target="_blank">here</a>, and was absolutely insane in a bad, bad way.Star Drive was an extremely mid and unexceptional/unremarkable sci-fi setting, which seemed to be dedicated to making the galaxy as unexciting as humanly possibly, which technically still being "space opera". It was also specific enough that it wasn't hugely helpful for making your own space opera settings.Gamma World for Alternity I can't comment on, I didn't read that version. Maybe it was good? But I don't hear it praised much (the 4E one, sure).</blockquote>

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