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<blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 3045887" data-attributes="member: 6318"><p>'No implied setting' isn't possible; even the most transparent ruleset implies things about setting, let alone one as detailed as D&D's. As ever, the designers will try to compromise between making things as flexible as possible and making the books evocative and redolent of 'D&D', because that's part of the game's appeal: it isn't just a set of mechanics for other people's fantasy.</p><p></p><p>The norms of the Realms and D&D are distant enough that forcing them together would benefit neither (the extent it happened in the 2001 <em>FRCS</em> was bad enough). I don't want the look of Eberron in core books, and it would detract from that setting's uniqueness as with the Realms. Assuming there isn't a detailed World of Greyhawk line, using it as the default setting helps keep it in people's minds, so I'd go for Greyhawk Light again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faraer, post: 3045887, member: 6318"] 'No implied setting' isn't possible; even the most transparent ruleset implies things about setting, let alone one as detailed as D&D's. As ever, the designers will try to compromise between making things as flexible as possible and making the books evocative and redolent of 'D&D', because that's part of the game's appeal: it isn't just a set of mechanics for other people's fantasy. The norms of the Realms and D&D are distant enough that forcing them together would benefit neither (the extent it happened in the 2001 [i]FRCS[/i] was bad enough). I don't want the look of Eberron in core books, and it would detract from that setting's uniqueness as with the Realms. Assuming there isn't a detailed World of Greyhawk line, using it as the default setting helps keep it in people's minds, so I'd go for Greyhawk Light again. [/QUOTE]
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