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<blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 1139628" data-attributes="member: 12425">Every one of the products under discussion (except Star Wars) qualify as D&amp;D settings IMO. It feels like an artificial distinction to say that by virtue of requiring the PH for certain mechanics one qualifies as a General forum item, yet those fantasy gaming products that require the core system except the PH should go elsewhere. By this same logic a modern fantasy setting with a manual that reproduced classes from d20 Modern, but otherwise used the PH, would go into General. Yet d20 Modern itself would go in d20/OGL. (Yes I know d20 Modern has its own forum, but if it didn't that's what would happen.)On the concept of relabelling, I gave it some thought. The best idea that I came up with was something to the effect of &quot;Expanded D&amp;D/d20/OGL games.&quot; Alternate D&amp;D Games &amp; Settings was my second-best suggestion. Until I had occasion to follow a product that was put into the d20 forum, I never saw a need to look in there because the forum title didn't pique my interest. (Sadly, I didn't read the very tiny print subheads either until I got a larger monitor.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Varianor Abroad, post: 1139628, member: 12425"] Every one of the products under discussion (except Star Wars) qualify as D&D settings IMO. It feels like an artificial distinction to say that by virtue of requiring the PH for certain mechanics one qualifies as a General forum item, yet those fantasy gaming products that require the core system [I]except[/I] the PH should go elsewhere. By this same logic a modern fantasy setting with a manual that reproduced classes from d20 Modern, but otherwise used the PH, would go into General. Yet d20 Modern itself would go in d20/OGL. (Yes I know d20 Modern has its own forum, but if it didn't that's what would happen.) On the concept of relabelling, I gave it some thought. The best idea that I came up with was something to the effect of "Expanded D&D/d20/OGL games." Alternate D&D Games & Settings was my second-best suggestion. Until I had occasion to follow a product that was put into the d20 forum, I never saw a need to look in there because the forum title didn't pique my interest. (Sadly, I didn't read the very tiny print subheads either until I got a larger monitor.) [/QUOTE]

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