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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 7900992" data-attributes="member: 3586">The huge amount of information available for the Forgotten Realms was the main reason behind the 4E time-jump... and we saw how well that went! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (Don't blow up popular settings!)It occurs to me that the amount of material available for the Forgotten Realms is dwarfed by the amount of material available for the Marvel line of comics. But there are people happily jumping into writing Marvel comics and running Marvel RPGs. The Marvel Cinematic Universe can be considered a campaign inspired by all that came before. It's recognisably Marvel, but not exactly the comic book universe.I think that while there is some truth in a lot of material makes it hard for people to approach a setting, there's more truth in that you can get into any setting if it has a good entry point - and the campaign adventures that Wizards have been releasing are good entry points.If you rely on your audience knowing the setting inside-out, you've got a problem. And you've still got to tell compelling stories.I do think the blowing up of the realms more was due to a problem with designers writing for the realms (where contradicting canon was jumped upon by critics), rather than how it played at home.Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 7900992, member: 3586"] The huge amount of information available for the Forgotten Realms was the main reason behind the 4E time-jump... and we saw how well that went! :) (Don't blow up popular settings!) It occurs to me that the amount of material available for the Forgotten Realms is [I]dwarfed[/I] by the amount of material available for the Marvel line of comics. But there are people happily jumping into writing Marvel comics and running Marvel RPGs. The Marvel Cinematic Universe can be considered a campaign inspired by all that came before. It's recognisably Marvel, but not exactly the comic book universe. I think that while there is some truth in a lot of material makes it hard for people to approach a setting, there's more truth in that you can get into any setting if it has a good entry point - and the campaign adventures that Wizards have been releasing are good entry points. If you rely on your audience knowing the setting inside-out, you've got a problem. And you've still got to tell compelling stories. I do think the blowing up of the realms more was due to a problem with designers writing for the realms (where contradicting canon was jumped upon by critics), rather than how it played at home. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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