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<blockquote data-quote="Manchu" data-source="post: 6553461" data-attributes="member: 6791825">The two best known D&amp;D settings, GreyHawk and FR, began as homebrew campaigns. Like Ravenloft, Dragonlance began as an adventure (or AP to retroactively apply the terminology). I am not sure but I think Dark Sun and Spelljammer were engineered as products. Planescape is a hybrid, a &quot;corporate&quot; setting built on &quot;homemade&quot; cosmology and metaphysics. I guess it is a mixed bag.Good example with Dungeon, I used it the same way. I have several complete APs from Paizo for a slightly different reason: I was really curious about the product concept and how the plots were structured. I don't like Pathfinder but I think the APs are really solid products and they make me wish I did like Pathfinder/was part of a Pathfinder group. I think participating, either as a DM or a PC, in one of those APs would be a much better introduction to Golarion than any of the pamphlets or HC-format setting info Paizo has released over the years. That said, I do own a bunch of that stuff, too, and some of it is very good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manchu, post: 6553461, member: 6791825"] The two best known D&D settings, GreyHawk and FR, began as homebrew campaigns. Like Ravenloft, Dragonlance began as an adventure (or AP to retroactively apply the terminology). I am not sure but I think Dark Sun and Spelljammer were engineered as products. Planescape is a hybrid, a "corporate" setting built on "homemade" cosmology and metaphysics. I guess it is a mixed bag. Good example with Dungeon, I used it the same way. I have several complete APs from Paizo for a slightly different reason: I was really curious about the product concept and how the plots were structured. I don't like Pathfinder but I think the APs are really solid products and they make me wish I did like Pathfinder/was part of a Pathfinder group. I think participating, either as a DM or a PC, in one of those APs would be a much better introduction to Golarion than any of the pamphlets or HC-format setting info Paizo has released over the years. That said, I do own a bunch of that stuff, too, and some of it is very good. [/QUOTE]

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