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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6992340" data-attributes="member: 19857">Frankly I prefer &quot;generic&quot; settings over settings ported over from other narratives.&nbsp; I'd rather see a &quot;modern high fantasy&quot; setting for 5e than a &quot;Harry Potter&quot; setting for example.&nbsp; Or a &quot;sword and sorcery&quot; setting rather than a Conan specific setting.&nbsp; I'd rather see settings geared towards gaming because I've had better success with settings that are built to be gamed in rather than built to tell a narrative in one format but being used for gaming.That said, as far as &quot;mass media&quot; settings go I've long thought that the Dresden Files books would be a great setting for the D&amp;D rules.&nbsp; I know it has its own game under the FATE system, but the books just scream &quot;D&amp;D&quot; to me.&nbsp; Especially as Harry essentially &quot;levels up&quot; every few books as the series progresses, and many of the other characters feel like they fit into various classes in a game system that I just haven't read the rules for.&nbsp; I'd definitely run it.I also like the idea of a setting more inspired by fairy tales than Tolkien and Howard.&nbsp; I stick fairy tale elements into my own games to remind my players why they would prefer to have Nameless Horrors From Outside Of Time and Space as enemies rather than the Fairie Queen, but I would love to have a setting that immerses itself in that feel and is the core of the setting rather than just one of many inspirations (much like wanting a &quot;sword and sorcery&quot; setting - though admittedly Dark Sun scratches a lot of that itch already).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 6992340, member: 19857"] Frankly I prefer "generic" settings over settings ported over from other narratives. I'd rather see a "modern high fantasy" setting for 5e than a "Harry Potter" setting for example. Or a "sword and sorcery" setting rather than a Conan specific setting. I'd rather see settings geared towards gaming because I've had better success with settings that are built to be gamed in rather than built to tell a narrative in one format but being used for gaming. That said, as far as "mass media" settings go I've long thought that the Dresden Files books would be a great setting for the D&D rules. I know it has its own game under the FATE system, but the books just scream "D&D" to me. Especially as Harry essentially "levels up" every few books as the series progresses, and many of the other characters feel like they fit into various classes in a game system that I just haven't read the rules for. I'd definitely run it. I also like the idea of a setting more inspired by fairy tales than Tolkien and Howard. I stick fairy tale elements into my own games to remind my players why they would prefer to have Nameless Horrors From Outside Of Time and Space as enemies rather than the Fairie Queen, but I would love to have a setting that immerses itself in that feel and is the core of the setting rather than just one of many inspirations (much like wanting a "sword and sorcery" setting - though admittedly Dark Sun scratches a lot of that itch already). [/QUOTE]

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