Great thread. I got into the hobby with AD&D 2e and I loved the variety of the worlds and their differences. Dark Sun should FEEL different than Forgotten Realms which should feel different than Ravenloft and so forth.
The Famous Tommy Z
This is one of my long-time personal bugbears as a player with 20+ years and >6 editions under my belt, too.
5e players haven’t really experienced distinct worlds, and I think it means they’ve missed out on something special because if it.
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Jennifer Kretchmer
seeing D&D people complain they don't want artificer cat people in their medieval fantasy and a) wow the kids are growing into their own grognard era, *sniff* and b) this is what we used to have different published campaign settings for and what they could be for again