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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1039986" data-attributes="member: 10201">Why are fans wanting more familiar ground looking at a new setting?  If you're satisfied with FR, Greyhawk, and/or Kalamar; or Midnight, Scarred Lands, Dragonlance, and/or Iron Kingdoms, why are you looking at now settings?  I think going for something different is a very smart move.  D&D is in desperate need of some more variety in settings--Midnight is about as "out there" as it gets right now, except for Dragonstar.  Just how many variations on the basic theme do we need?I'm with you on the different-ness of the setting being good.  However, in response to your and others' comments that "it must be good, why else would they have chosen it?", let me just say: Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, SpellJammer, Ravenloft, Council of Wyrms, Netheril, Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright.  For probably any person, there's at least one in there that falls into the personal "what were they *thinking*?" category.  I don't know exactly who the judges are, but if they're the same people who think that FR is a really cool setting, or thought the Book of Vile Darkness was awesome, i don't have much hope.Mind you, i'm fully aware that my tastes don't match the mainstream customer base.  I think that FR is one of the lamest, least-interesting fantasy settings ever published, for D&D or otherwise; can't stand Planescape; never got into Dark Sun or Ravenloft; think that Dragonlance is incurably silly; and love SpellJammer.  IOW, from everything i've heard, my tastes are almost exactly inverse to actual sales of the various settings. My point is not that i am right and everyone else is wrong. Rather, it's that they're already catering to the mainstream taste, and maybe exactly what they need is a setting a bit more "out there".  I just hope it's also cool, and internally consistent ot a reasonable degree.Oh, and if i never see another drow for as long as i game, it will be too soon.  I never thought they were interesting or cool, and they've only gotten worse by overstaying their welcome.</blockquote>

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