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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2629850" data-attributes="member: 6957">Some questions to ask then:Who told you that most non-WotC settings are bad? Why did they tell you this? Do they gain anything from your buying WotC? (I.e. they already have all the books, work for a store that carries WotC or needs to special order other companies' material.)Ask them what campaign settings they have looked at, and if they in turn tell you that 'they have been told, but have not looked themselves' (disturbingly common) then disregard it and look for yourself. No one knows your tastes better than you. If they can tell you what they did not like then listen and see whether their dislike is a matter of taste. I have met people who cannot stand Midnight, purely because it is an amazingly bleak world. But if it is to your taste then there is no setting better. I have met people who hate the Iron Kingdoms because it has guns. (Which is one of the major reasons that I like it.)I have run into a bookstore that would recommend WotC simply because it was all they carried, naysaying other settings. When the clerk was commenting on the other settings to a customer I asked the clerk the clerk to describe even one non-WotC setting, he hadn't read any, but was pumping shelf stock instead - which is a good reason to say good things about WotC, but a bad reason to speak against non-WotC.I am not saying that WotC is bad, simply that there are better. Midnight, Iron Kingdoms, Oathbound, and Wilderlands are all excellent, but cater to very different tastes. While I had some criticisms about Scarred lands the amount of support was excellent as well. As I said, even with my critiques, I hold iSL to the same level as the WotC setting that I like best.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Personally, I very much like the feel of Eberron, and would rate it with some of the non-WotC settings that I like. The Auld Grump, who prefers more coherent settings than the WotC norm.</blockquote>

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