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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6766829" data-attributes="member: 37579">Maybe. But a lot of people join home games run by their friends. Being introduced to the game by friends in the know is probably a lot more common than just wandering into a store. It adds a book and options. It doesn't change the races or options. Half-orcs aren't suddenly unavailable. IF the setting is as close to traditional fantasy as Greyhawk. If it's Ravenloft or Eberron it's suddenly more complicated, and if it's Dark Sun or Al Qadim it's even more tricky.But if you're just doing Greyhawk, you don't really need to change settings for the AP, since the Realms content and adventures is easy enough to adapt. Almost zero effort.At which point you have to ask why they're even changing the setting since it's pretty much a lot of work just to shift some nouns around without really affecting any adventures.A good setting book takes a really long time to write. Even farming it out is tricky, since they still need to find someone who can do a 256-page AP and a 300+ page hardcover in the same six-month window. Wolfgang Baur of Kobold Press has expressed reluctance to do a 5e version of the Midgard setting since they just finished The Southlands and wanted to wait a couple years before doing another setting hardcover. Talking a licensed world would mean shelving his own world and related products for the better part of a year. I doubt there's that many studios they could even hire to produce a full campaign setting...No reason it has to stay the same place, no. But also no reason it has to change worlds. There's LOTS of room in the Realms for all kinds of different stories, without even moving to such slightly different regions as Al Qadim or Kara Tur."Because you can" isn't a great business reason.</blockquote>

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