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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 2114812" data-attributes="member: 3913">My problem with DL stems mostly from the novels.  How many apocalyptic events can one setting have?!?!  It got tiresome.  Plus, once you factor in the range of quality from good (none of them were great) to outright crap, it made it hard to really invest anything into the setting.  As for as the games go, all the pre-D20 incarnations were railroading.  The PC's were second fiddle to the supposed genius of W&H's characters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  The D20 edition of the setting does a good job.  I don't think DL has the absolute best presentation out there, but the setting is finally written in a way that is truly fosters ideas that aren't tied to the god-awful metaplot attached to DL.  I don't plan on using the DL D20 material for anything more than mining for my homebrew setting, since it's simply standard fantasy.  DL finally is of decent quality, but it's not even close to the best of the fantasy settings.  I've moved into more of a Eberron and Iron Kingdoms mindset anymore, so standard fantasy doesn't really hold all that much appeal to me anymore.Kane</blockquote>