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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 7894085" data-attributes="member: 6855114">You're absolutely right. Most people forget to look at things from the perspective of that era. Old grognards like me seems to be stuck on Mystara or Greyhawk not out of nostalgia, but simply because most of today's settings are a bit too "modern, steampunk, magitech" or whatever else might come to mind.I personally prefer a setting where magic is not that common (nor are the magic using classes). The 5ed has way too many magic classes (don't get me wrong here, I really love 5ed, just too many magic using classes in a setting supposed to be magic starved...). Worlds like Mystara and Greyhawk had a lot less magic available to them than say... FR? FR was great at the start but as more and more product were thrown at us, it began to look like an orange juice extractor where I was the orange, my money the juice. Too much of a thing can be bad sometimes. I felt like the quality of FR products went down the drain after the Bloodstone lands. Karatur was great for the Oriental setting, the Horde land was great (mainly because I really liked the novels) but Maztica was a bit meh... Dragonlance was a great read, I own every modules and we played them to our heart's content but the setting is a bit stale outside the War of the lance. Darksun had psionics. So this was a turn off for me. Birthright I did not even read. So I can't comment on that one. Ravenloft was a good read, but just like Dragon Lance, it was mostly one shot campaign/games/adventures. (But the Curse of Strahd of 5ed was really great. My two groups loved it.)I did like Ebberon at the time because it was a fresh approach. I completely and totaly loved Planescape and Spelljammer, but they were more of a one shot campaign/games/adventure just like Dragon Lance and Ravenloft then we went back to our prefered setting. The Nentir vale was good, but left out under developped by Wizards and I rarely buy 3PP. 4ed could have done something really good with it. But the lore on it was too scattered.So this leaves us this new setting. I will buy it. Just to see what comes out of it. Who knows, maybe I'll like enough to buy a 3PP talking about its other continent...</blockquote>

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