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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2428832" data-attributes="member: 172">Sounds about like me. I am always on the prowl for something to steal.From the plunderer's perspective? Or from someone's perspective who is going to actually play/run it.Well, I'll hack at a little of both.Two things seem absolutely essential for me to even have a prayer of using a setting: a strong background conflict that can be the source of adventures, and flexibility. I think the reason Spelljammer never really sold to me, despite the fact that I love many of the concepts, is that it was (in the early going, at least), fundamentally presented as a playground with some toys you could play with. That failed to keep my interest.More generally, good mechanics and good stealable ideas really warm me up to a setting I am looking at importing things from. Scarred Lands was nice in this aspect. I found tidbits like Asaathi, Night-touched, hag templates, and Tempus Twins juicy and ripe for the picking.I really don't care about minutia. That was one reason Rokugan could never rise above for me. Unless it has immediate campaign potential, I really don't care much about wasp clan coming of age ceremonies. (The more I think about it, the more I think WotC extracted most of the good stuff from Rokugan in OA.)</blockquote>