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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 899065" data-attributes="member: 7635">Greetings,As a DM with no game currently running (down time), I was thinking about a setting to use for D&D. I bounced between a few differents (including my own home brew, but I want to give that a rest.) This got me thinking about settings in D&D...Greyhawk is the default D&D setting. This is WotC's sale's pitch. If you just play with the Core books, you are assumed in Greyhawk. However, Greyhawk is suffering for two reasons.1.) WotC is not supporting it.2.) No one else is allowed to.The latter is the important thing. Back in the dark ages of D&D (1e), Lots of different writers, (Gary, Rob, Len, Tracy, etc.) could write for TSR. They were all subsumed within Greyhawk. Greyhawk grew as a setting made by many authors, developing it in new and (sometimes conflicting) directions. The Open Gaming Lisence gives publishers a chance to do that again. Lots of little writers could (theoretically) move a setting and flesh it out. A module here, a source book there, etc. However, the nature of publishing and competition has made many of these settings closed for development. Greyhawk, Realms, Kalamar, the Scarred Lands, Rokugan, etc. They are under lock and key from their publishers as settings. Thus, every publisher has a pet setting that they use for most of their modules/sourcebooks, and they rarely cross over...But what about an open setting?A setting which any publisher, from a DM with MS Word to a huge heavy hitter like Sword and Sorcery Studios could produce for?A setting that grows over time based on the works of different authors and publishers.A setting with completely open lands, gods, NPCs, etc. Everything Open Gaming, all things from it Open. A setting flavorful enough to play in, generic enough to import to another setting?Does one exist? COULD one exist? Would you buy it? Would you contribute to it? What would be the problems with this "open" source setting? I'm interested to see if such a project is desired, feisible, and useful. Thanks</blockquote>

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