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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3513168" data-attributes="member: 1106">And what's useful?&nbsp; Something that supports an adventure!&nbsp; Because most of what people refer to as worldbuilding is often just for the sake of fleshing out a world for it's own sake, and any adventure support is incidental, then yes, a lot of is called worldbuilding isn't useful for purposes of D&amp;D game prep.&nbsp; The big giveaway that this is the case is that setting is created first, adventures and the campaign arc as an afterthought, developed to fit in with what has arbitrarily been worldbuilt before.&nbsp; This is priorities exactly the wrong way around, putting the cart before the horse, as has been argued earlier.&nbsp; And here, it's been argued that it's arguably a waste of time in that a lot of the material will never see play, and therefore a violation of the First Rule of Dungeoncraft, Wolfgang's First Adventure Design rule, and the SF author referred to by the OP.&nbsp; And yet, and yet, and yet, it's a sacred cow, so it can't be led to the abbatoir it so richly deserves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3513168, member: 1106"] And what's useful? Something that supports an adventure! Because most of what people refer to as worldbuilding is often just for the sake of fleshing out a world for it's own sake, and any adventure support is incidental, then yes, a lot of is called worldbuilding isn't useful for purposes of D&D game prep. The big giveaway that this is the case is that setting is created first, adventures and the campaign arc as an afterthought, developed to fit in with what has arbitrarily been worldbuilt before. This is priorities exactly the wrong way around, putting the cart before the horse, as has been argued earlier. And here, it's been argued that it's arguably a waste of time in that a lot of the material will never see play, and therefore a violation of the First Rule of Dungeoncraft, Wolfgang's First Adventure Design rule, and the SF author referred to by the OP. And yet, and yet, and yet, it's a sacred cow, so it can't be led to the abbatoir it so richly deserves. [/QUOTE]

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