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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProgBard" data-source="post: 6767134" data-attributes="member: 6803722">I really think it is. If you were to say to your player group, I want to start a campaign in a homebrew fantasy world, and we're using Fate, I don't think you'd get as much, or the same kind of, pushback - the roll-your-own nature of that project in that sytem is going to make it a lot more likely players will ask what's included rather than make assumptions, and less likely they'll be jerks when you tell them something isn't part of the setting. With D&D specifically, you're bringing in forty years of "stuff that's part of D&D" that can be hard to jettison from the heads of your players. Not impossible, but definitely challenging.I do think your examples of parallel scenarios are pointing to slightly different things. Your spy game has its own set of protocols and expectations (with its own spectrum of history to be specific about, because are we talking Bond or Legends? Is my criminologist profiler going to be just as out of place as a wizard, when you were hoping I'd bring a gadgeteer?), but the disconnect you're talking about is cross-genre rather than in-genre, if you take my meaning. Broadly speaking, the same is true of the Wookiee in Middle-Earth. And the absurdity of those examples only stands out because there's broadly-shared cultural knowledge about what the world of spy movies or LotR or Westeros look like; when you're just some guy with a home-grown campaign setting, I have no idea unless I've taken the time already to read your writeup (which, by the by, let's just say there are many fewer GMs who are good at articulating what their worlds look and feel like than believe they are). Savvy fantasy readers might know enough to ask some of the right questions to get them grounded ("So, is this setting more Swordspoint or Fionavar?"), but understand that's a 201-level discussion and you may need to adjust your expectations as to which of your players even have the necessary perspective for it.</blockquote>

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