Why bother with Vanilla?

[Hussar]

Funny. I was just wondering why there didn't seem to be any default setting supported for DnD. A simple vanilla setting, cleaving to the core rules and common fantasy tropes. Simple enough to adapt, but providing people with a basic backdrop for a DnD game.

doghead
aka thotd

Out of curiousity, what do you consider common fantasy tropes and do you think that the 3e core rules support those tropes? The reason I ask is because I feel that D&D (regardless of edition) supports D&D and not fantasy particularly well. It's always been a mixed bag of resources and its more up to the DM to design his campaign (not his world necessarily) to fit whatever tropes he wants.