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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spa'ro" data-source="post: 6760162" data-attributes="member: 6804759">I'm a touch confused on where to start with 5E, and by that, I mean in what setting.A little background, I grew up exposed to D&D (My Dad played, and well let's just say he and I kind of grew up together because sometimes things happen earlier than you expect) and fantasy games in general.  Heck, I won a Spellfire tournament when I was 8 or 9 and Cataclysm still gives me nightmares.  I tried to jump in during 4E (Late 2013) but was unimpressed.  Something just didn't feel right to me even though I hadn't seen anything since about 2E/3E.  I'm sure some of it was my fault, but it just felt a little... Mortal Kombat-esque to me. Just seemed like it was made to be more of a stream of battles, as opposed to a world of wonder.  Again, that's likely on me for just not spending enough time getting into it, and getting with a group to build that world.  Regardless though, I had put my 4E stuff away and a few weeks ago remembered that D&D Next was Playtesting when I was fiddling with 4E and figured I'd see if it was out yet... well, to my joy it was released a year ago. Woo!Determined to not make the same mistakes as I did with 4E, I've been taking a little more of a cautious approach to buying/researching this time around. I want to get well versed in what's going on in the multiverse so I have some sort of foundation to work off of this time.  I ordered the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide a couple weeks ago as I wanted to get my hands on the equivalent of the 3.5 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting I found in Dad's stash last year.  I've only briefly looked at it so far as I've had a number of other commitments, but some of those are wrapping up.  I received my 5E PHB yesterday and have just started digging in.My initial thought was to jump in with the SCAG, but some of the Elemental Evil and Rage of Demons stuff looks pretty darn cool as well.  It seems as though they all go from Level 1 and up, and that seems awesome since I can jump in at any one of those points; but at the same time, I can jump in at any one of those points.... so where should I jump in?I feel like I need the whole experience to really flesh out the world, but I'd also love to try to run the same Character through each setting and I'm not quite sure it can/will work like that.  At some point, I'm likely to buy all of them and run different characters, but at $40/50 a pop, that's hard to swallow at the moment. So, I guess the TL;DR version of this is:  Do I miss anything by not starting with one setting or the other? If I start some campaign based on the SCAG, will there be bits of history that I'm missing regarding the influence of the things going on in the Underdark, or something else?</blockquote>

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