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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5786626" data-attributes="member: 29398">I must confess I don't often agree with you, [MENTION=928]Wormwood[/MENTION] - but this time you're bang on.That said, I don't mind there being passing reference to an implied setting if only to give new players/DMs and-or those with limited time something to work with out of the box.A later module (I forget which one but I have it around here somewhere) expands greatly on this setting, and shows the map in Isle of Dread to be but a tiny part of the world.It includes Blackmoor, which tags it as having been at least in part Dave Arneson's own world; but in fact the whole thing was a generic setting they threw together to test stuff, and then kept when they found it worked.If Forgotten Realms does end up as the default 5e setting it'd be in some sense poetic justice: FR is the only setting to appear in all of 1e 2e 3e and 4e yet has not been the default for any of them.  Lanefan</blockquote>