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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9635582" data-attributes="member: 6915329">No, I don't know.But assume a designer came in with a really cool but out-there idea for a campaign setting. How likely, would you say, is it that the designer would be allowed to spend company time and money creating and then publishing the setting?Because I'm pretty sure that the designers who have worked at WotC have had lots of campaign setting ideas, if only because people who play D&D tend to come up with setting ideas really easily. Probably, since they're professionals who know how to write and format a setting, some of these ideas are actually really fleshed out, not just at the "hey, it would be cool if..." stage.How many new settings have they actually published? Eberron, which was from a contest. Nentir Vale, which if I'm understanding it correctly is pretty empty on purpose, and two more that are supposed to be coming out for 5.24. Did I miss any? Over the last few editions, we've mostly gotten expansions or revamps of settings that came out of settings put out by TSR. So either the designers have had minimal interest in creating anything new, or they weren't allowed to create anything new and publish it under WotC's banner. Not forbidden--that's not what I mean--but they were assigned to write specific things and those things are not whatever they want to.</blockquote>