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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 4589718" data-attributes="member: 4789">In answer to the original post, and topic.It was sometime in the mid-late 80s.  I had grown dissatisfied with the worlds being produced, and after Forgotten Realms and the 1st Ed Oriental adventures came out I saw how you could use your own world, with the mechanics provided. Up until this time I had only ever played TSR games, D&D and Gamma World pretty much.I discovered Champions at University in '85. A few years later, I had Champions, Danger International, Justice Inc, and others - same game system different settings. I started crossing them.Then came 4th Ed Champions. System here. Setting there - completely independent  of each other. At that point I saw the fact that the two could be decoupled and you can tweak and massage the rules to support the campaign feel you wanted in your game.I trusted the game designer to make balanced rules I could use with game.... but I didn't trust them to be able to give me the gameworld I had in my head. And that is the big point - I have never used a published setting in my life, every game I have ever run has been a homebrew. So, no, I ignore Gary's tirade against guns, or Zeb's comments about magic items if they don't fit my world.It's not a lack of trust, but the fact they aren't in my brain, knowing what kind of game I want to run.</blockquote>