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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8551067" data-attributes="member: 1465">All the time.&quot;Anything goes&quot; is a good idea (not the only option though) for a vanilla game of D&amp;D for example when picking up a random adventure for a one-shot or when introducing the game to beginners. In other words, when you expect the game won't go far and therefore the setting doesn't really matter.It is also a good idea as the starting point for a new campaign when you want to create a new homebrew setting but you don't have an idea yet: let the players choose anything they can think about, and use those as pivots for the whole setting, maybe even removing from the settings some staple races/classes they didn't choose.The &quot;cosmopolitan&quot; setting approach is itself a valid fantasy setting but if done every time it makes all campaigns the same, thus for me it is not the best choice when expecting a campaign to last... unless I had ever only played a single evergreen campaign all my life (which I think many people in fact might have in mind when answering this sort of questions). Diversity is good and should be encouraged on the game as a whole (i.e. in generic books),&nbsp; but too much diversity within each campaign every-single-time means too little diversity across campaigns.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8551067, member: 1465"] All the time. "Anything goes" is a good idea (not the only option though) for a vanilla game of D&D for example when picking up a random adventure for a one-shot or when introducing the game to beginners. In other words, when you expect the game won't go far and therefore the setting doesn't really matter. It is also a good idea as the starting point for a new campaign when you want to create a new homebrew setting but you don't have an idea yet: let the players choose anything they can think about, and use those as pivots for the whole setting, maybe even removing from the settings some staple races/classes they didn't choose. The "cosmopolitan" setting approach is itself a valid fantasy setting but if done every time it makes all campaigns the same, thus for me it is not the best choice when expecting a campaign to last... unless I had ever only played a single evergreen campaign all my life (which I think many people in fact might have in mind when answering this sort of questions). Diversity is good and should be encouraged on the game as a whole (i.e. in generic books), but too much diversity [I]within[/I] each campaign every-single-time means too little diversity [I]across[/I] campaigns. [/QUOTE]

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