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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mishihari Lord" data-source="post: 6104415" data-attributes="member: 128">I do like "deep" setting with lots of history, culture, and physics behind how things are.  The main reason is that the most appealing part of RPGs to me is exploration.  I want to know what's over the next hill, what kind of people live the next country over, and why orcs hate humans.  A deep setting feels much more real to me, which makes exploration that much more rewarding.  Middle Earth is a good example of a deep setting; even before reading the Silmarillion I could tell that a lot of history, culture, and reasons were behind the story I was reading, which is the main reason I enjoyed LotR so much.That said, official D&D settings have never seemed to do "deep" very well, and I don't have high expectations for the future.</blockquote>