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<blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 9262021" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>I pay very little attention to lore. I'll update elements I like, and throw out what I don't like. Trying to keep up with FR lore burned me out and it didn't make my games any better, so I pick a point I like and go from there. If I buy any new books that update the lore, chances are I'm mostly buying it for the mechanics since I'm terrible at crunching that stuff myself. </p><p></p><p>The last time I did anything with Dragonlance, I set my games during the War of the Lance and completely ignore ANYTHING having to do with the 5th Age, or whatever they called it during the Saga system. I did not like those books, I didn't like the direction the lore went in, so I just don't use it. Same with any post 3e-Realms lore and post-From the Ashes Greyhawk lore (and don't quote me on the names, that's how little I care about it). Planescape is before the whole Faction War thing, too.</p><p></p><p>I like the settings, but once I run a game in it, they become <em>MY</em> versions of the settings and not a team of people in some far away place who have never played at my table with my players. I don't run 5, 10, 20+ year-long campaigns. It's hard enough getting everyone to commit to the game to keep the same campaign going a year, so deep dives into someone else's lore just isn't worth the effort.</p><p></p><p>If I was going to do that, I'd use one of the settings I've used in my own books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JediSoth, post: 9262021, member: 13882"] I pay very little attention to lore. I'll update elements I like, and throw out what I don't like. Trying to keep up with FR lore burned me out and it didn't make my games any better, so I pick a point I like and go from there. If I buy any new books that update the lore, chances are I'm mostly buying it for the mechanics since I'm terrible at crunching that stuff myself. The last time I did anything with Dragonlance, I set my games during the War of the Lance and completely ignore ANYTHING having to do with the 5th Age, or whatever they called it during the Saga system. I did not like those books, I didn't like the direction the lore went in, so I just don't use it. Same with any post 3e-Realms lore and post-From the Ashes Greyhawk lore (and don't quote me on the names, that's how little I care about it). Planescape is before the whole Faction War thing, too. I like the settings, but once I run a game in it, they become [I]MY[/I] versions of the settings and not a team of people in some far away place who have never played at my table with my players. I don't run 5, 10, 20+ year-long campaigns. It's hard enough getting everyone to commit to the game to keep the same campaign going a year, so deep dives into someone else's lore just isn't worth the effort. If I was going to do that, I'd use one of the settings I've used in my own books. [/QUOTE]
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