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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7672999" data-attributes="member: 5100">That doesn't surprise me, at all. If I didn't expressly rule out Forgotten Realms, I'm pretty sure I would have been "encouraged" to use it for 5E. I'm pretty sure the vote would have been: 1) Yes, please. 2) Always sounded neat. 3) Not ideal, but sounds like less work. 4) Whatever (because I'm going to ignore setting and stick my sword in things). 5) Huh? (Because I've never played before and am still trying to figure out the d20.)Actually, what blew my mind was that I offered to either convert the modules to Eberron or to create a brand new setting. For Eberron, I said that I'd expect the PCs to draw from the Eberron fluff and the PCs to learn a bit. For home brew, I said I'd take my cues from the PCs and only develop what made sense and seemed important but would leave the rest vanilla/implied. I think it was unanimous for Eberron, in a beer and pretzels game. Pretty sure it doubled the work for everyone, which I don't mind, if rich setting is one of the goals of the campaign.If this is the goal (and I think it is), then it makes much more sense to do a new version of the settings, too. That way the "evergreen" setting matches the core rules and can be stocked on the shelf right next to the core rules. Maybe they do intend to print an evergreen book for some of the settings, eventually. What I've heard doesn't sound like it, though.This is the sort of thing that makes me really cringe at the 5E "brand management". I'm sure they have some sort of numbers to drive their decisions, but the decisions being telegraphed are mystifyingly out of sync with anything that makes sense with what I can see. I know there are some smart folks at Wizards, who love the industry and are good at what they do. I have to assume that there's an exec, somewhere, who is the living embodiment of the Peter Principle and the RPG staff is desperately trying to keep a great product from being "managed" into the ground. I don't remember what the current Brand Manager's name is, but all indicators that it's either him or whomever he reports directly to (with him being the last sane person in the chain). Every single thing he says sounds like someone who doesn't even know what the D&D brand actually is and/or can't figure out that there are other brands associated with D&D that could be built upon more effectively (say, Forgotten Realms).</blockquote>

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