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I'm frankly shocked you aren't interested because that's exactly what 4e did with Nerath. A single setting scattered throughout the core books.

Maybe if D&D didn't sell an all encompassing "core three" but opted with smaller tailored player books that included the necessary lore and options for the setting. Something like that Dark Sun Players Handbook or the Ravenloft Players Handbook that have tailored classes and species for each...

Which of course ends both sides of the issue. The DM doesn't have to create anything more than a few monsters and a place to smack them in, and the player need not concern himself with anything more than what is needed to smack them with. You don't need extensive settings full of lore anymore...

Its a problem D&D needed to solve 30+ years ago. Its too late now. But the side effect of TSR deciding D&D didn't need a default setting is that everyone will have different ideas of what D&D is, and that will forever be a source of player/DM mismatching expectations.

CR used the 4e default deities (plus a Pathfinder one). If anything, Critical Role is the only place the original RQ is left and its status as being owned by CR/Darrington means its status in the multiverse is wholly dependent on the continued colab between the two companies. But for settings...

The strength of not having an identity is that everyone paints there own identity on it. Every DM doing things differently means there is no sense of overarching continuity. You can't just tell me "make a character" and direct me to the PHB and expect me create a full fleshed-out, well...

And I'm saying D&D's problem is having too many settings to be able to buy into. D&D needs one maybe two, fully developed settings, not 12 official and countless homebrew and 3pp. The opposite effect though is the generic PC so divorced from the setting that he could walk through a portal from...

The biggest problem was she was a deity who was far more popular than the setting she was created for, and she couldn't fill her role as a death goddess when every D&D setting already has a bespoke death god or goddess. So they tried to make her a planar entity and the rest was history.

Do they? I started playing D&D in the 90's and even in that paleothilic era, my intro to fantasy was Final Fantasy, not Lord of the Rings. I knew more about moogles than hobbits. And when I did start playing D&D, it was through BECMI where there was exactly one type of elf. A player today...

Golarion is IMHO world building done to perfection. Rather than a multiverse of settings that don't have anything in common, you have one world where each region gets it's own unique genre and flavor and crossing the streams is as easy as walking to the next region over. It would be amazing if...

Aka: "the first step to designing an interesting D&D setting is to first remove D&D from it."

That players rarely buy and read. Especially if it's for a single game and they have no interest in any mechanical elements in said setting book.

I'm not talking about rules, I'm talking about the lore, the tl;dr part the players skip. The player who read just the PHB now has supplemental reading: where do elves fit into Krynn, who is Paladine, what is the nature of priests on Krynn. It's even worse if you roll up that elf cleric of...

Not really. Because Elves in Oerth aren't the same as elves in Krynn, Eberron, Athas, or Ravenloft. So if I read in the PHB how elves worship Correllon and then decide make an elf cleric of Corellon, he's not going to be playable in Krynn (which has its own strict pantheon), Eberron (ditto, and...

Cait Sith? Spiders Man?