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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6223650" data-attributes="member: 1465">I still believe there is no need for a "default" setting. It actually depends what it means, because if they say "FR is the new default" but then core books don't contain any FR-specific material that should be ignored when playing in other settings, then it really doesn't cause any harm.3.0 had Greyhawk as default, and yet this only meant two things: Greyhawk deities in the PHB, and spell names containing Greyhawk NPC (notice how 3.5 cleverly messed up by having a prestige class in core taken from another setting...). The 5e domains system currently doesn't need any mention of deities in the PHB. Spell names could remain for tradition's sake, or they could make neutral names, it's not that big deal for me. Thus I don't see any reason for really having a "default" setting. There can be just generic books, and setting-specific books, no need to mess up the two things together.Would be even worse for me if the default setting was going to be a new setting, because this means it would either be very fantasy generic (which we already have many that can be reused, and at least they would carry over some tradition with them) or stray away from classic D&D which guarantees troubles.That said, 5e already has a default setting and it is Forgotten Realms, so there's nothing to advocate. But once again this means nothing if the actual character material in core and non-setting supplements doesn't contain FR-specific stuff.---As for supporting other settings is additional books, the more the better!My preference would be to focus on the main campaign setting sourcebooks, rather than the supplements. I would prefer they give precedence to one large FR campaign setting book containing all you need to play for a long time (compared to 3e FR books, I'd prefer one that would merge the FRCS, Manual of Faerun and Magic of Faerun, although not the entire of content of them is needed, so a 500-pages limit could be a good target), and then do the same for several more settings.</blockquote>

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