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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7720878" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Nothing weird or illogical to it.</p><p></p><p>Everyone comes to a table with expectations, yes? If you're running a Star Wars game, I'm probably pretty reasonable to expect Jedi and the Empire. Not a completely unreasonable assumption I wouldn't think. Now, if your game is 100% no Jedi, and is basically a cyberpunk heist game where the PC's are stealing stuff Shadowrun style, am I completely off base for thinking that this isn't really a Star Wars game? Even though it has Hutt's and name drops proper nouns and whatnot?</p><p></p><p>It's certainly not what I'd expect from a Star Wars game.</p><p></p><p>Now, if I sat down at an FR game, and suddenly Mystra is back, Bane never died, there was no Avatar trilogy, there's no drow at all, good, evil or in between. No underdark. No Undermountain. Heck, were the Dale lands even detailed in the Grey Box? I dunno. On and on and on. This is going to be really, really jarring to a player. Look, my familiarity with the Realms is pretty spotty. It's mostly from Baldur's Gate games and a few Dragon Magazine articles. So that Grey Box campaign might say Forgotten Realms on the cover, but, it's not the Realms that I have any familiarity with.</p><p></p><p>And, again, I simply am not interested in delving into a setting with that much background. Heck, I'm no different with my reading. I don't read much fantasy simply because door stopper books are not what I want. I think George RR Martin is a talentless hack who is in desperate need of an editor. I couldn't even get through more than one book and even then I was skipping chapters. World building bores me to tears. I simply, really, really could not care less about world building.</p><p></p><p>So a setting whose primary draw is world building is not what I want. I'm just not interested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7720878, member: 22779"] Nothing weird or illogical to it. Everyone comes to a table with expectations, yes? If you're running a Star Wars game, I'm probably pretty reasonable to expect Jedi and the Empire. Not a completely unreasonable assumption I wouldn't think. Now, if your game is 100% no Jedi, and is basically a cyberpunk heist game where the PC's are stealing stuff Shadowrun style, am I completely off base for thinking that this isn't really a Star Wars game? Even though it has Hutt's and name drops proper nouns and whatnot? It's certainly not what I'd expect from a Star Wars game. Now, if I sat down at an FR game, and suddenly Mystra is back, Bane never died, there was no Avatar trilogy, there's no drow at all, good, evil or in between. No underdark. No Undermountain. Heck, were the Dale lands even detailed in the Grey Box? I dunno. On and on and on. This is going to be really, really jarring to a player. Look, my familiarity with the Realms is pretty spotty. It's mostly from Baldur's Gate games and a few Dragon Magazine articles. So that Grey Box campaign might say Forgotten Realms on the cover, but, it's not the Realms that I have any familiarity with. And, again, I simply am not interested in delving into a setting with that much background. Heck, I'm no different with my reading. I don't read much fantasy simply because door stopper books are not what I want. I think George RR Martin is a talentless hack who is in desperate need of an editor. I couldn't even get through more than one book and even then I was skipping chapters. World building bores me to tears. I simply, really, really could not care less about world building. So a setting whose primary draw is world building is not what I want. I'm just not interested. [/QUOTE]
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