GMs -- Don't we all want to roll our own?

[rlbeaver]

As a GM, I like to create my own, or just use any published one as a framework. As far as the latter, I don't bother with any type of conversion, don't see the point. I make up stats for people/things as I go along. However, admittedly, I have grown to love the Plot Point Campaigns by Pinnacle Entertainment.

Now, if using a published setting for a game system I'm using, my wish would be they publish a setting with the player's guide and GM's guide or use Pinnacle's model of setting book with Player's Guide PDF with license to print 5 for your players...

As a player, there are times I wish the GM would use a published setting. My most recent experience of someone running a "home built setting" resulted in being handed a manuscript of 150 pages, poorly written, boring...with your character creation rules spread throughout so you couldn't get out of reading it unscathed. They were deeply proud of their setting and the history they created, their wife regaled us with tales of previous adventures they had in the setting...so, I can support the idea of published settings.