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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4449327" data-attributes="member: 22779">To be honest, I can't think of a single setting that actually would benefit from such a jump in the way that FR IMNSHO needed.  No other setting has even remotely the amount of material published that FR does.  Not by a long shot.  You could fill a reasonably sized encyclopedia series with the amount of FR material published over the past couple of decades, even ignoring fiction.  No other setting has anywhere near that amount of detail squeezing the life out it.Ahem.  Ok, maybe "squeezing the life out of it" is a poor choice of words.  Let's just say that I found the FR to be so monolithic that I couldn't begin to run it.  OTOH, I could see running a Planescape campaign.  More than enough freedom there.  Sure, there's lots of canon, but, most of it has been out of print for a decade or more, so, who cares really?  I'm not going to get fussed if the new material contradicts a book that was published three presidents ago.  I simply don't care.  None of the people that I play with would care either.  Heck, half my group wasn't out of diapers when these books were in print.Being forced to slave the setting to material that only a very small number of hardcore fans have even read is one of the worst things about published settings.Times change, tastes change, let it go.  Nothing stops you from playing Planescape the way it was when De Terlizzi was doing the art.  But, why worry if they update and change the setting for the next generation?  It doesn't change your game.Since we've already got mention of Sigil in the 4e books, I'm thinking that PS is going to get a treatment before too long.  I just hope they blend it with Spelljammer.  Instead of doorways, you sail the Astral sea, battling different factions that are based on actual goals, rather than artificial alignment restrictions.</blockquote>

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