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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8447043" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Because the world is already home to someone else's story. And that &quot;someone else&quot; is more well-known/popular in the real world than any of the characters in the campaign will ever be. When people think of Hogwarts, they think of Harry Potter killing Voldemort. When they think of Dragonlance, they think of the War of the Lance. When they think of Star Wars, they think of Luke blowing up the Death Star and redeeming Vader. If the story has already been told, I don't see the need to tell it again but with new characters. If there's a new story in the world, it's still going to be overshadowed by the story that got the world popular in the first place. That's my problem with doing stories in existing universe like this. There are exceptions, I would love to run an Exandria campaign some time, or use the <a href="https://www.crafty-games.com/shop/mistborn-adventure-game/" target="_blank">Mistborn Adventure Game</a> to run an adventure on Scadriel, but in general, neither I nor my players are interested in doing a Dragonlance/Star Wars/Harry Potter campaign because of them being overshadowed by the original heroes, even if that doesn't happen in-game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8447043, member: 7023887"] Because the world is already home to someone else's story. And that "someone else" is more well-known/popular in the real world than any of the characters in the campaign will ever be. When people think of Hogwarts, they think of Harry Potter killing Voldemort. When they think of Dragonlance, they think of the War of the Lance. When they think of Star Wars, they think of Luke blowing up the Death Star and redeeming Vader. If the story has already been told, I don't see the need to tell it again but with new characters. If there's a new story in the world, it's still going to be overshadowed by the story that got the world popular in the first place. That's my problem with doing stories in existing universe like this. There are exceptions, I would love to run an Exandria campaign some time, or use the [URL='https://www.crafty-games.com/shop/mistborn-adventure-game/']Mistborn Adventure Game[/URL] to run an adventure on Scadriel, but in general, neither I nor my players are interested in doing a Dragonlance/Star Wars/Harry Potter campaign because of them being overshadowed by the original heroes, even if that doesn't happen in-game. [/QUOTE]

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