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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5303779" data-attributes="member: 463">I think the 4e 'setting' is much more evocative than previous work.  It's very much feelings/sentiment over facts/detail.  I think it's a good approach; however far too little of the wonderful stuff which appeared in "Worlds & Monsters" actually made it into the original core D&D books; the Monster Manual in particular is terribly lacking, as is the DMG setting-info stuff.3e core was hideously weak on setting & theme; really very very bad.  I didn't think much of 2e either, you could buy a setting to fit your desired theme but some like Swords & Sorcery were poorly covered, partly due to the draconian Ethics Code.I think core 1e, OD&D, B/X and BECMI all presented strong, though all very varying, themes in their core rules books.</blockquote>