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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sam Witt" data-source="post: 996239" data-attributes="member: 1449">>>Out of curiosity, does anyone run regular games without a campaign setting?<<I did, for about 10 years.  The thing about campaign settings is that they really should grow organically around the events of the campaign - it helps cement the players as the center of the game universe.Of course, I also ran a couple of years in FR way back when and another year recently, as well as about six months or so in Oathbound. FR really sort of fell by the wayside for me, though, mostly because I set it up in the far north and stopped caring about the world's backstory.  Oathbound I like, as a setting, because it ties itself together very well.This Dawnforge thing, though - I dunno about that yet.  I mean, the guy writing it is my DM and he's so interested in game balance and tweaking character roles that I really am not getting in my quota of roleplayah time.He also made me play an elf.  Baby jesus weeps.Samps - I also think giving players more than a couple pages of handouts is a waste of time.  They'll forget most of it and misconstrue the rest of it.  Players are cruel and unforgiving with no appreciation for finely crafted writing.  We hates them, my preciousssss . . . .</blockquote>