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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4957869" data-attributes="member: 15538">I just picked the first and latest WotC settings. If it's a stark comparison, it's certainly not by contrivance. You've got Dark Sun, Eberron, and Forgotten Realms. I could probably write a &quot;desert adventure&quot; that would fit any of them, but I would have to provide alternative encounters for all three. Dark Sun stuff is very different, as best as I can recall, FR and Eberron don't have the same kinds of critters and cultures in the desert regions as each other. If I want to do a &quot;city of the elves&quot;... that's not going to happen. Too different. In theory, I could write an adventure that could for Thay or the Dragon Kings, in the general, but all the stuff is going to have to be modular.If I write a Generic Medievalish, it's probably not going to work with any of the published settings. So who do I sell it to? 4e fans who don't play in any of the published settings? In practice, I have to pick one of the settings and write for it, with adaptation to other settings being of secondary concern. And that brings me back to this: I can't use their fluff, but I have a limited ability to write my own without making my product uncompatible. And FR doesn't need a generic Waterdeep, since it already has the real thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4957869, member: 15538"] I just picked the first and latest WotC settings. If it's a stark comparison, it's certainly not by contrivance. You've got Dark Sun, Eberron, and Forgotten Realms. I could probably write a "desert adventure" that would fit any of them, but I would have to provide alternative encounters for all three. Dark Sun stuff is very different, as best as I can recall, FR and Eberron don't have the same kinds of critters and cultures in the desert regions as each other. If I want to do a "city of the elves"... that's not going to happen. Too different. In theory, I could write an adventure that could for Thay or the Dragon Kings, in the general, but all the stuff is going to have to be modular. If I write a Generic Medievalish, it's probably not going to work with any of the published settings. So who do I sell it to? 4e fans who don't play in any of the published settings? In practice, I have to pick one of the settings and write for it, with adaptation to other settings being of secondary concern. And that brings me back to this: I can't use their fluff, but I have a limited ability to write my own without making my product uncompatible. And FR doesn't need a generic Waterdeep, since it already has the real thing. [/QUOTE]

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