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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackwind" data-source="post: 5788984" data-attributes="member: 1205">I agree with Morrus, FWIW, but I believe the die has already been cast. After all, they've already hired some Chinese video game art studio for FR! I am really curious to see what that will look like... :/I ran one campaign in the Realms, like others here, when the 3.0 Realms book came out. It was a great book! Probably the best-done setting book that TSR or WotC had ever made. And we had fun in that campaign, although it had absolutely nothing to do with the setting.Dragonlance was my first D&D setting. When my friend A. introduced me to D&D back in 4th grade (age 9 or 10) he also introduced me to the original DL novels. After that, I went on to read pretty much every DL novel in print (1994, there were a lot by then) over the next year or so. But I could never play in DL. The official story always made it too hard for me to imagine playing in that setting. I have a similar resistance to playing a Dune game or a Middle Earth game or any other setting where there's already a strong storyline established.Plus I like world-building, so I've always run homebrew for the most part. But I think Morrus is onto something when he suggests that Greyhawk would be the best default setting for 5E.First of all, it's full of weird, old-school awesome! The place-names and character names are distinctively Gygaxian. The "name" wizards and their spells. The iconic adventure locations. The deities and their quirky mythologies. The very idiosyncratic cosmology. It all sets D&D apart from other fantasy games. In a sense, no other setting is as D&D as Greyhawk. And by supporting Greyhawk, WotC would be sending a message to long-time fans saying "yes, we really are getting back to the roots of what this game is about."EDIT: I should add that I actually know very little about Greyhawk. I'm not some grognard, I'm 27. I also know that part of the reason a lot of fans are/were so dedicated to Paizo is because of their support of Greyhawk while they had Dragon and Dungeon. Finally, Greyhawk ties in really well with both Planescape and Spelljammer! In a way that FR doesn't, because FR has a different cosmology sort of.As for Eberron: I think it's a really well done setting, but it's too far from the standard, pseudo-medieval milieu of D&D to be the flagship setting.</blockquote>

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