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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 2929115" data-attributes="member: 40166">I've seen metaplots do such nasty things to settings I liked. I don't know what happened in late-2ed Planescape, but it's seems so bizzare to have the 3rd &quot;Planescape&quot; stuff with the factions arbitrarily screwed with. Dragonlance is worse; it's gone through several changes that completely blew up the world. Traveller was so bad that GURPS Traveller and T20 both go to basically the original setting without any of the later metaplot (GT by alternate history, T20 by going back a little before the changes).I think the biggest complaint is that authors seem to always want to take the setting and blow it up; empires that have lasted for a thousand years have to disintegrate into civil war, gods that have been around since the dawn of time disappear, a faction system that has been stable for several hundred years has to be destroyed. If it were just the standard rise and fall of kings and petty wars, it'd be a lot easier to deal with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 2929115, member: 40166"] I've seen metaplots do such nasty things to settings I liked. I don't know what happened in late-2ed Planescape, but it's seems so bizzare to have the 3rd "Planescape" stuff with the factions arbitrarily screwed with. Dragonlance is worse; it's gone through several changes that completely blew up the world. Traveller was so bad that GURPS Traveller and T20 both go to basically the original setting without any of the later metaplot (GT by alternate history, T20 by going back a little before the changes). I think the biggest complaint is that authors seem to always want to take the setting and blow it up; empires that have lasted for a thousand years have to disintegrate into civil war, gods that have been around since the dawn of time disappear, a faction system that has been stable for several hundred years has to be destroyed. If it were just the standard rise and fall of kings and petty wars, it'd be a lot easier to deal with. [/QUOTE]

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