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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6397197" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think they could. I don't think there'd be any reason that it'd be prohibited. If Waterdeep is just a city anyone can plunk into any campaign (and happens to be an FR native), and WotC makes a new campaign setting, they can plunk Waterdeep into it, too, if they wanted to ensure that their new Waterdeep sourcebook can be used there. Just like if they wanted to make sure their new Nine Hells sourcebook can be used in Eberron, they could drop the Nine Hells there somehow (recommendation: part of Eberron's underdark). More likely than Waterdeep, we'd see this with things like the Barrier Peaks, or the Temple of Elemental Evil, or other adventure sites. And those get plunked into new settings all the time (most recently, the Nentir Vale!). Hell, they've crammed all of FR onto Eberron in DDO. Want to drop a living forest on Acheron? It's an infinite plane, that'd be cool. Continent-sized drifting cubes totally have room for a living forest. And all of those places totally have room for the Orcs of the Sword Mountains. What I'm trying to avoid here is being broadly definitional -- writing &quot;Orcs are X&quot; means that if you want orcs to be Y, you have to tangle with folks invested in orcs being X, expecting them to be X, for one reason or another.If you write &quot;Specific Orcs are X,&quot; that means if you want orcs to be Y, you just change the &quot;specific&quot; part. And if you want them to be X, you just drop the specific part into your game. That's true if you're WotC or if you're a homebrewer. And if for some reason&nbsp; that specific part doesn't really fit (though there's a LOT more flexibility there than people assume), you change the &quot;specific&quot; part and leave X alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6397197, member: 2067"] I think they could. I don't think there'd be any reason that it'd be prohibited. If Waterdeep is just a city anyone can plunk into any campaign (and happens to be an FR native), and WotC makes a new campaign setting, they can plunk Waterdeep into it, too, if they wanted to ensure that their new Waterdeep sourcebook can be used there. Just like if they wanted to make sure their new Nine Hells sourcebook can be used in Eberron, they could drop the Nine Hells there somehow (recommendation: part of Eberron's underdark). More likely than Waterdeep, we'd see this with things like the Barrier Peaks, or the Temple of Elemental Evil, or other adventure sites. And those get plunked into new settings all the time (most recently, the Nentir Vale!). Hell, they've crammed all of FR onto Eberron in DDO. Want to drop a living forest on Acheron? It's an infinite plane, that'd be cool. Continent-sized drifting cubes totally have room for a living forest. And all of those places totally have room for the Orcs of the Sword Mountains. What I'm trying to avoid here is being broadly definitional -- writing "Orcs are X" means that if you want orcs to be Y, you have to tangle with folks invested in orcs being X, expecting them to be X, for one reason or another. If you write "Specific Orcs are X," that means if you want orcs to be Y, you just change the "specific" part. And if you want them to be X, you just drop the specific part into your game. That's true if you're WotC or if you're a homebrewer. And if for some reason that specific part doesn't really fit (though there's a LOT more flexibility there than people assume), you change the "specific" part and leave X alone. [/QUOTE]

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