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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7687232" data-attributes="member: 7006">But what are they going to do about it?&nbsp; Deliberately publish crappy Realms stuff so that people stop playing in the Realms?&nbsp; Now granted... there are a whole heap of people here on the boards who think TSR/WotC has already succeeded in that endeavor for decades now... but it apparently hasn't stopped lots of other people, has it?They've had the Realms since '87.&nbsp; They then released Dark Sun in '91.&nbsp; Didn't supplant it.&nbsp; They released Birthright in '95.&nbsp; Didn't supplant it.&nbsp; They released Ghostwalk in '03.&nbsp; Didn't supplant it.&nbsp; They released Eberron in '04.&nbsp; Didn't supplant it.How many times do the folks in charge of D&amp;D have to release a new campaign setting to try and take over the position of &quot;most popular setting&quot; before everyone else just finally admits &quot;Yeah, the Forgotten Realms is D&amp;D's primary campaign of choice for players who use them.&nbsp; And thus setting most of their material there makes the most sense.&nbsp; Oh well!&quot;The problem the rest of the non-Realms fans have is that none of you can AGREE on one setting being better than the Realms.&nbsp; You all go do your own home-brew settings or play in the other ones TSR/WotC has released, and can't come to a consensus.&nbsp; Is it irritating that your own personal choice is not embraced by more people?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; But there's nothing you can do about it except either ADAPT the existing 5E material that comes out to your personal campaign, WAIT until they hopefully get around to you, or do what I did and just ACCEPT the Forgotten Realms as my new setting for the campaign I have chosen to run because I didn't feel like doing either of the previous two.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7687232, member: 7006"] But what are they going to do about it? Deliberately publish crappy Realms stuff so that people stop playing in the Realms? Now granted... there are a whole heap of people here on the boards who think TSR/WotC has already succeeded in that endeavor for decades now... but it apparently hasn't stopped lots of other people, has it? They've had the Realms since '87. They then released Dark Sun in '91. Didn't supplant it. They released Birthright in '95. Didn't supplant it. They released Ghostwalk in '03. Didn't supplant it. They released Eberron in '04. Didn't supplant it. How many times do the folks in charge of D&D have to release a new campaign setting to try and take over the position of "most popular setting" before everyone else just finally admits "Yeah, the Forgotten Realms is D&D's primary campaign of choice for players who use them. And thus setting most of their material there makes the most sense. Oh well!" The problem the rest of the non-Realms fans have is that none of you can AGREE on one setting being better than the Realms. You all go do your own home-brew settings or play in the other ones TSR/WotC has released, and can't come to a consensus. Is it irritating that your own personal choice is not embraced by more people? Sure. But there's nothing you can do about it except either ADAPT the existing 5E material that comes out to your personal campaign, WAIT until they hopefully get around to you, or do what I did and just ACCEPT the Forgotten Realms as my new setting for the campaign I have chosen to run because I didn't feel like doing either of the previous two. [/QUOTE]

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