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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 7670537" data-attributes="member: 1210">I'll start by disputing the assertion that FR, GH and Mystara are all that similar. FR is very Renaissance-style high fantasy. GH is much more gritty Dark Ages in style, and Mystara is supposed to be a pastiche of our world in D&D terms. Sure, there are similarities, but to me (and maybe not to anyone else), the differences are glaring. That said, LMoP was the first FR product I've purchased in a long, long time, and I don't have any problems with it. They did a great job of making it pretty generic. But, as I posted above, the $20 I spent on that sends the message that I want more FR to WotC; that's not a message that I want to send.It has been proven to be the most popular setting because, when they started publishing it, they spent the next decade actively promoting the heck out of it while actively neglecting, or sometimes even consciously undermining, other settings (hello, Castle Greyhawk). I've made this point before in other threads, but of course Greyhawk doesn't have half the popularity of the FR; it hasn't had anywhere close to half the support in, like, almost 30 years!That said, I agree that the FR is the most popular setting, and that it makes sense for WotC to set their adventures there. But it doesn't make sense for me to buy them unless what they offer is a far stronger temptation than my Realms-aversion.</blockquote>