What's the best way to adapt a setting to a new edition?

[Samuel Leming]

Yes, just ignore it. In general that will be the best way. I hope that's what they do with Eberron.

FR is a special case because of how that setting is perceived by many.

Sam

 

[Wombat]

My basic rule:

The game rules should fit the setting, rather than the setting conforming to the rules.

This is why I own so many rules sets and why I own no system loyalty.

 

[freyar]

Because shoehorning every single setting into the same, bland Great Wheel setup is stupid when you can expend a little effort and come up with a cosmology that fits your setting, ala the Great Tree.

After all, it was simply retarded that Dragonlance was forced into the Great Wheel cosmology, despite creatures from those various planes not existing in that setting (for example, why would the plane on which Gruumsh lives be a part of Dragonlance when there are no orcs?).

Except that FR had already had plenty of interactions with Great Wheel creatures earlier...