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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 3923339" data-attributes="member: 9959">I actually don't think the polls that Ryan worked from are completely accurate. I think the settings were a good thing and that the reason they divided the markets were more than just to many worlds:1) I think that TSR made to many DM materials and not enough player ones, at least with campaign setting material. Most of the player tools were books like the complete series and player kits. The books for the campaign settings gave DMs more material to work from and actually were bad purchases for players as they held monster stats, adventure seeds, npcs etc. This was mistake one. As WOTC has been doning, make your products for the players (mostly) and then put in additional DM material.2) Duplicating sourcebook themes and producing to many books. TSR put out way to many books for each setting, and half the time books that could easily have been a dragon article or gathered with other settings into one book (like the Book of Artifacts) could have worked fine. I think this hurt, and gave the impression of to many products existing. Why I believe the settings are sorely wanted, is look at the most succesful dragon and dungeon issues, they are the ones that tie to the settings. The articles for settings are much more interesting. They have points of reference, adventure ideas and mythology without floating in a vacuum. If WOTC plays it smart, they will make sourcebooks for the settings that give material to both players (of all classes) and DMs, and then are given guidelines using that material in other campaigns but most of the material focuses on the campaign it goes to.Also, I think instead of doing boring sourcebooks like sandstorm, they do the Dark Sun setting and give the expanded desert rules, desert adventuring etc there. Planescape can focus on playing with the planar realms as your native plane, and adventuring in the realms of demons, celestials and gods. It can give support to those types of games, as well as supporting its own setting.I think most of us miss the worlds, reading about them, mining for ideas from them, and all we really want is the option to play in them or within parts of them or take things from them and put them in our own worlds. The D&D with no worlds was very dry and boring at times.</blockquote>

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