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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9456039" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I think it really depends.Certain high level things probably matter, like genre and tone and things like that. So someone may like sword and sandal type stuff, and so they may be down with Dark Sun over some more generic D&D setting. But that doesn’t mean that they care at all about Hamanu’s back story and why there are no trolls on Athas. What players care about, generally speaking, is what matters to play. So in addition to things like tone and genre, they likely care about what player characters tend to do. Things that shape the play experience rather than simply serving as encyclopedia style history like the Silmarillion. Seriously… look at the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and look at what’s relevant to those stories. What actually matters to and affects the characters. Then look at The Silmarillion. Players care about what’s in The Hobbit and the LOTR, not what’s in the Silmarillion.</blockquote>