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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zarionofarabel" data-source="post: 9811848" data-attributes="member: 7026405"><p>That's why I became a fan of The Most Generic Fantasy Setting Ever (tm). Someone upthread made a comment about how using generic elves and dwarves makes it easier to get players on board and it's totally true. If I can explain the lore of a race by saying it's just like the most common version of the race, that everyone knows, then it's super easy to get people on board with the tropes of the setting. If I have to spend an hour explaining why "my elvez are different and kewl" then I'm probably gonna watch most folks eyes glaze over a few minutes into the explanation. I know amongst YT DMs there is a definite prevalence for the idea that in order to be a "good DM" you absolutely must have your own homebrew setting. The problem is most of the settings are not very interesting, and alot of them are virtually nonsensical. It's like its a competition to make the weirdest, hardest to follow/understand, setting. Then they do an AP and nobody watches it because the amount of lore you need to learn just to have the slightest idea what's going on is not the kind of thing anyone other than the people participating in the game is willing to do. I was never the hugest fan of Forgotten Realms (not at all really) and I liked Greyhawk only marginally better (don't know the lore as well) but at least I could have a conversation with other GMs about the setting. Nowadays there is no discussion about setting, just a comparison about how that persons setting makes even less sense, or is "kewler" or more innovative (not at all) than the "generic" ones. Give me a generic setting any day over a bespoke one, at least I can explain it to people quickly and get to gaming instead of needing hours of explanation of how it's different, and not at all better or more interesting in any real way.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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