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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4867693" data-attributes="member: 2205">Neither.  Settings are the RPG products that, relatively speaking, are the least reliant on the rules.  They're mostly fluff.  Once I've read a setting book, adjusting it to a new edition means most of it is going to be redundant no matter which option you use.I'd issue new settings, designed specifically for the new rules.  And, for setting lovers, I'd release small(ish) perfect bound books that give rules updates to the setting, to bring them over into the new edition without having to rewrite the setting, either as an advanced one or as a re-imagined one.  If that means Forgotten Realms doesn't really have a place for dragonborn, and they have to be worked in as unusually exotic foreigners of some kind, I'm OK with that.Keep in mind, though, that I'm not really a setting lover.  I don't attach myself to settings.  I don't use settings, per se.  I read them, and enjoy doing so for its own sake, and then I raid them for ideas and nuggets that I can use in my homebrew.  So my preferences are probably a corner case, not a baseline anyone could build a business plan around.</blockquote>