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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1338271" data-attributes="member: 2205">I'd agree that Greyhawk in particular is little more than an excuse to have ruins to explore, in most cases.  Forgotten Realms is iffy, as it's been through a lot of "focuses" over the years, from the gray box to the current hardcover, but I certainly don't think FR today is any less roleplaying conducive than Dragonlance.The many settings that came out after DL during the 2e days were almost all as roleplaying intensive, if not moreso, than DL by virtue of the focus of the settings and the tone and themes explored in their main books: Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, etc.I guess my point is, there's little about the setting that makes it superior to other settings in terms of "facilitation of roleplaying" and it could be argued that some other settings, at least, are superior to it in that regard.  Certainly nobody can claim that Planescape is about hack-n-slash or dungeoncrawling, to use one example.For the record, my experience with DL is similar to yours (although I haven't actually picked up the new book yet) and I do also have very fond memories, especially of the original three Chronicles books, which I consider to be the only classics of game fiction ever published.</blockquote>