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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8408330" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Let's unpack this a bit.</p><p></p><p>"All settings are homebrew." With the possible exceptions of the recent M:tG-based settings, this is universally either true now or has been at some point in the past.</p><p></p><p>"We can't discuss them." Sure we can; and I disagree with those who might be saying or implying we can't.</p><p></p><p>"The Realms are the baseline..." Obviously the system authors need to have an example setting of some sort to show how everything ties together, and that's fine; but I don't necessarily see that setting as the baseline. Rather, FR is one setting that happens to include a bunch of factors either universal to all settings or easily made so.</p><p></p><p>I also fully subscribe to the theory (and by random chance it seems Planescape agrees with me - yay!) that all Prime Material settings ever created exist on the same Prime Material plane and in the same universe; that looking up at the night sky from somewhere on Greyhawk you might see the star around which orbits Toril, while in a different part of the sky you might see the galaxy somewhere within which the world of Eberron orbits around its star, and so on.</p><p></p><p>Ownership of the IP has nothing to do with it. TSR/WotC can drag in stuff from the public domain and make it core just by putting it in a rulebook, and have done so many times particularly in the early days.</p><p></p><p>For example, the Norse and Egyptian etc. pantheons (public-domain material all the way) <strong>were</strong> officially written up and published by the game's producers back in the 1e days and thus were then established as part of the game's core lore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8408330, member: 29398"] Let's unpack this a bit. "All settings are homebrew." With the possible exceptions of the recent M:tG-based settings, this is universally either true now or has been at some point in the past. "We can't discuss them." Sure we can; and I disagree with those who might be saying or implying we can't. "The Realms are the baseline..." Obviously the system authors need to have an example setting of some sort to show how everything ties together, and that's fine; but I don't necessarily see that setting as the baseline. Rather, FR is one setting that happens to include a bunch of factors either universal to all settings or easily made so. I also fully subscribe to the theory (and by random chance it seems Planescape agrees with me - yay!) that all Prime Material settings ever created exist on the same Prime Material plane and in the same universe; that looking up at the night sky from somewhere on Greyhawk you might see the star around which orbits Toril, while in a different part of the sky you might see the galaxy somewhere within which the world of Eberron orbits around its star, and so on. Ownership of the IP has nothing to do with it. TSR/WotC can drag in stuff from the public domain and make it core just by putting it in a rulebook, and have done so many times particularly in the early days. For example, the Norse and Egyptian etc. pantheons (public-domain material all the way) [B]were[/B] officially written up and published by the game's producers back in the 1e days and thus were then established as part of the game's core lore. [/QUOTE]
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