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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7430521" data-attributes="member: 58172">Previous D&D editions support customizability, both for DM and for player.For example, as DM.The 3e SRD is mostly setting neutral. I, literally, cut-and-paste the parts that I plan to use for my setting. Add a sentence and paragraph, occasionally a page of description. And already, it is workable. The rest is the finetuning and updating that happens during gameplay.4e was also workable. I emphasized the Feywild and the Material. The elf I needed enjoyed support. With a doable amount of effort, I extirpated the Astral Sea and its polytheistic Cleric class. No headache, nothing else that I need to use referred to them.The difficulty with 3e today is, its lack of balance is problematic. 4e has too much legal weirdness to deal with to any serious degree.Regarding 5e, the problem is the saturation of unwanted setting assumptions in every aspect of the core rules. The 5e SRD likewise gets in the way of world building.I am sick of the effort to remove 5e flavor. I have never used an official setting. I resent the nigh-coersion to do so now.</blockquote>