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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6369765" data-attributes="member: 19857">Okay, I may not approve of stacks of adventures written this way, but I'd buy one.  Because that is hilarious.  I almost feel like writing "The GENERIC Adventure" in exactly that tone now.  The only trouble would be getting my players to go along with the gag for more than about 10 minutes...That said - generic settings exist.  Pretty much most of the 3rd party d20 vendors set their adventures in a generic setting.  They gave names to things, but they generally make the setting generic enough that you can scrape the names off and plop the adventure down in your own campaign.Many of the adventures that TSR/Wizards have produced that were explicitly set in a campaign world are actually pretty generic setting-wise as well.  You don't have to run the Slavelord series on the Wild Coast and the Pomarj.  You don't have to run "Isle of Dread" in the Thanegioth Archipelago.  And you don't have to run "Keep on the Shadowfell" in the Nentir Vale.  Sure there's a setting there, but it's pretty easy to file off the serial numbers and set it anywhere.Come to think of it - all of the early 3rd edition adventures produced by Wizards were pretty close to a "generic setting" in themselves.  Ostensibly Greyhawk was the default setting, I guess, but I don't recall "Sunless Citadel" or "Forge of Fury" or "Heart of Nightfang Spire" being tied to particular locations in Greyhawk.  You could set them anywhere.  And we did (I ran all three in Mystara, and it was easy enough to do because none of them had any setting ties).There are some adventures that are strongly tied to the politics/factions/whatever of a setting.  It would be hard for me to think of how I'd run The Great Modron March anywhere but the Great Ring, for example.  Dark Sun adventures are pretty much tied to Athas without a lot of work.  But I'm thinking most of the adventures on my shelves are almost setting neutral, even the ones with a setting logo on them.</blockquote>

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