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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8848572" data-attributes="member: 87792">If it isn't then the setting designers haven't started at the right place. Of course you can always improve a setting - but the best way of doing this is by re-writing it using a new edition as an excuse to redevelop it rather than by forcing a metaplot on it and making it worse for everyone trying to use it to play in.So anyone not playing a homebrew game is having badwrongfun? And the books literally published to provide a setting should not be used for their stated purpose?And GMs who want to use a setting for its stated purpose have a much harder time doing so if there is metaplot because then they have to do a whole lot more curation, undermining much of the point of using an established setting.So all material should be tailored to you when you explicitly do not use settings for their stated purpose. And because you refuse to use settings for their stated purpose people who do use it the way it was intended should have their experience harmed?Being blunt so is 5e Ravenloft. And metaplot does far more harm to the settings it's inflicted on than 5e Ravenloft has to classic Ravenloft.The big difference is that 5e Ravenloft is a reimagining. Metaplots, by their evolving nature while claiming to be the same setting literally tell DMs and players that the way they are picturing the setting is wrong. I don't know why 5e Ravenloft, which has an ignorable existence, is a problem for you. But if you have a problem with it surely by analogy you can see why others have issues with the far more intrusive nature of metaplot?</blockquote>

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