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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8206515" data-attributes="member: 7006">I'm with you.  I really don't get just how much some people feel like they need a 5E version of any of these older settings, when in truth once it gets printed they're going to find that there was much more in-depth and in-volume amounts of stuff they could get (and probably already own) from the earlier editions when the settings were first produced.When I ran my 5E Eberron game, I supplemented the hell out of it with all the 3.5 books for the setting and I couldn't even think to not do that.  And I have to believe that if/when Greyhawk gets published with a 5E book... people are going to wonder where all the lore went?  When the book was unable to match or even come close to all the Greyhawk material that is already out there from the early 80s on.I still believe that if you want to run a game in an old setting, the only thing you may want from a 5E book of that setting is the game mechanics for certain non-PHB items (although you probably could even build those mechanics for yourself right now without issue).  All the other stuff (for lore, world-building and the like) you're much better off just using what you already own.  You'll be much happier if you did (especially if the timelines of the setting have advanced over the years, because there's a pretty good chance the 5E book will get plopped down in a period of the timeline you ain't gonna like anyway.)</blockquote>

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