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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7720689" data-attributes="member: 6873517">Yes, I got that. What the setting does is give the players a lot, and of course the GM too. It can be too much, though, certainly. Some settings are just crazy detailed. I'm not sure why someone would run one if the setting didn't appeal and for which there was no prior knowledge. Of course if you roll your own you have to spend a lot of time doing that. GMing is hard work either way you cut it. Still I don't know that it's necessary to know everything in the setting to run something. Pick a relatively dark corner, learn some of the canonical stuff that carries the flavor well, and shine some light into it. Chances are good there will be some source material you can use but no so much that you're buried under 27 different books. If you use the Star Wars Old Republic timeline as an example there were a series of comics, two video games and later an MMO. That's all great, because they give you lots to steal from, but by no means do you need to use all of it. You can just get the sourcebook (there was one for SWD20 Revised and I think also for SAGA) and take from that. If you happened to play either of the video games---they were good, especially the first one---there's even more, but the general idea is in the sourcebook. Several years ago I ran a SWD20 Revised game that was only really tangentially connected with any canon at all. It was set in the Old Republic era and I reskinned a Conan story (Tower of the Elephant) among other things.</blockquote>

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