So I get the feeling from the boards that there is a fair number of people who run homebrew settings. With 4th ed coming along are the folks who run homebrews not worried about the fluff changes and looking forward to the rules changes? It seems like 4th ed would be geared toward new players and the folks who just use the mechanics. Since I don't have a homebrew (although 4th ed is making me consider it) I don't know how much the fluff of D&D is tied to a homebrew. My guess is it varies from person to person so the homebrew folks may be just as divided by the approach of 4th ed. Just curious what epople think.
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I've always viewed D&D as a ruleset first and have had little interest in the official settings. Paizo got me interested in Greyhawk, but it's still a sideline. Some setting elements of D&D, such as the planes, have always been drug along because to exclude them requires way too much modification on official products. My hope is that 4e will reduce the importance of such systems and make them more modular so that I can incorporate new planar elements that I like (demons/devils) without taking those I don't like (the Great Wheel).
I'd be much happier if the setting specific core elements were jettisoned from the core rules and relocated to a Greyhawk setting book where they belong.
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For some elements, particularly clerics who need gods, I think there needs to be a default setting. But the current perversity of having the default setting be totally unsupported as an actual setting is confusing and slightly stupid. I'm not even a Greyhawk fan, but I'd like to see a proper book on the subject.
So I get the feeling from the boards that there is a fair number of people who run homebrew settings. With 4th ed coming along are the folks who run homebrews not worried about the fluff changes and looking forward to the rules changes? It seems like 4th ed would be geared toward new players and the folks who just use the mechanics. Since I don't have a homebrew (although 4th ed is making me consider it) I don't know how much the fluff of D&D is tied to a homebrew. My guess is it varies from person to person so the homebrew folks may be just as divided by the approach of 4th ed. Just curious what epople think.
I would concur with your first question Chris P. The 'crunch' (rules changes) are the framework around and upon which the fluff is affixed. If the crunch is stale, flat and fragile, no amount of fluff will survive very long. However, if the crunch is fresh, tasty and sturdy, the fluff is easily affixed in place.
In essence, I will get the first teaser book and see what kind of crunch we have to look forward to for the next 3.5 years, if need be bodily stealing what I want and discarding the rest.