Here's a sad story in six words. FOR SALE: RPG SETTING, NEVER RUN As bloggers, we have reams of loreposts and toneposts and appendices N and classes and bestiaries and all the things which a game is built  on- but a dearth of games. There are settings which exist solely as ideas in heads, lauded though they may be, awaiting the day they hatch from the skull that holds them. Look at all these settings from  The Nothic's Eye . Of the twelve of them, I think about three of them have ever been run. Three others have absolutely no mention outside of this chart. This isn't a specific callout post, just an easy example. Although Locheil does owe me thousands of dollars from the ill-fated Ashes to Ashes: the Motion Picture project, I expect this to be mediated by my various eastern European thugs. Anyways, the trouble with many of these great works and passion projects is that if you don't know the person who wrote it, it's extremely unlikely that you'll get to play it ...