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But that could all be changed very simply if you wanted. You could just say “on this world, Drow are not all evil… they are like any...

I personally would default to nothing but humans. I don’t find the other heritages or races to be all that interesting, really. They...

Agreed. No plane-touched in a world where all of the planes collapsed into each other seems backwards; I would expect lots of...

Yes, but it's only weird if you're working under the assumption that the game is meant to be a toolkit, and there aren't any standard...

Heck, I think it’s OK to exclude things. It just needs to be very mindfully and cautiously, and with full player buy-in. It’s the...

GURPS is a toolkit game. I don’t think D&D should be used as such without careful consideration; I think it causes more problems than...

Yes, it may be. But what I've seen is that most often, it's not. Many folks here and many I've discussed with and played with create...

To me, the issue is that the number of DMs who think making a super-specific setting is great fun vastly outstrips the number of players...

There’s a big difference between a Wookiee Jedi in Star Trek (where both concepts belong to a separate IP) and wanting to play an...

In BW, as per the example I gave, there is a pretty tight correlation between the fiction and the difficulty. This is the underpinning...

I'm not.

I dunno. What mechanics are you envisaging? I mean, upthread lots of posters - @Crimson Longinus, @AlViking, @Micah Sweet, @Faolyn, I...

So are you now saying that those who don't value playing in highly GM-curated settings are suffering a cognitive deficiency?

Huh? Among friends, being nice is a perfectly good reason all on its own. And friends have no real reason to indulge one another in...

Because the point of a setting is to be a set of tools for players to use to support themes and modes of play. There are plenty of...