Dungeonosophy
Legend
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I like them separate. It makes each freer to do its own thing.
the rather generic D&D-style fantasy worlds? (Mystara, Greyhawk, Dragonlance)....I just don't see why. File off the serial numbers from the relevant adventures and plop them into FR...if that.
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I mean, the stewards of the Transformers IP (who also work for Hasbro), have gathered together every dot and iota of Transformers stories and imagery, and assigned it to various complex, interweaving continuities, each with their own "timeline number". And that's all just based on some action figure toys. And people aren't put-off by the complexity and thoroughness.
I thought D&D aficionados were at least as detail-oriented and passionate as Transformers aficionados.
Most aren't. A few people are, and I think most D&D fans feel as if there are a number of tropes and concepts that are appreciably D&D enough that they should be maintained. But I don't think there's any sort of groundswell for a linked D&D ubersetting, with some kind of metaplot continuity, and I think a lot of players would actually be quite against it.I thought D&D aficionados were at least as detail-oriented and passionate as Transformers aficionados.
"And a multi-hundred-million dollar film franchise. Let's not leave that out.