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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1031761" data-attributes="member: 7473">Count me (proudly) amongst the Whiners!I never said this setting will suck.  I'd say it actually looks kinda neat, if appearing to owe a lot to sources mentioned previously.  My problem, and the reason I am unfortunately prejudiced against this book, is that as a Setting Search entrant, I was told in the submission requirements, as well as several times by WotC employees via forums, that they were looking for some flavor of medieval fantasy.  I worked very hard to stay within those strict parameters, all the while thinking to myself, "Why does WotC want YET another medieval fantasy setting?".  But I pressed ahead, and turned in something that appeared to be a standard-issue fantasy world, but had what I felt were some interesting things going on under the surface.  DMs could have a field day with the premise, but to the PCs it would appear to be "just another fantasy world".  I didn't like the stringent limits the submission guidelines put on my writing, but I found my way of having my cake and eating it too.Well, it turns out that they didn't want another medieval fantasy setting after all.  It turns out they wanted flying ships, vast cities, hovertrains, and dino-riders.  That's their right to publish whatever they want, but it leaves a very sour taste in my mouth that they didn't just open up the submission parameters to include things like that.  By their very admission, this setting was nothing like the other 11,000 entries.  Did this Baker guy know something the other 11,000 of us didn't know?  Did he find the magic internet chat forum where whoever was in charge of this Setting Search debacle said "Nothing screams 'medieval' to me like flying trains" and ran with it?I hope this doesn't come across as sour grapes.  I'm sure this is going to be very well done.  Having seen some of Morningstar, I know that there were losing entries better than mine, so Mr. Baker gets the benefit of the doubt.  I'm P.O.'d at WotC for misrepresenting themselves.</blockquote>

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