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I understand what you are saying. But in actuality that's exactly how gods work in my setting...all three options...i.e. they could all...

That is interesting. I do not own either of those books. Can you tell me a little bit about them? (I am familiar with the setting via...

The Greyhawk as presented in the DMG is interesting because it does not talk about character options or other mechanical elements at...

I’d argue that Exandria/ Wildmount is the bespoke 5e setting.

That's Greyhawk. They didn't really use it until the Revised Edition.

I don't think that is a compelling argument or has any real examples to back it up. You CAN create bespoke emchanics for a setting of...

Both/and/or/neither. I don't think it is a coherent goal. Mechanics are designed to be molded at the service of rendering a Setting, the...

3rd Ed had got Eberron and 4e Nentir Vale/Points of Light but a 5e setting should be designed to allow space for future crunch like new...

The core rules of 5e are deliberately genic and open to interpretation. This is one of the reasons for it's popularity. Settings tend to...

I think that is still true, its just that they don't spell it out.

Mechanics express Setting, not the other way around.

By my reckoning, WotC released something like 10 Settings over the past decade, fully half of which were new to D&D (Ravnica, Theros...

Yeah, Ptolus, Waterdeep, Sharn, Sigil - all of those are urban environments where conceivably the entirety of the campaign can take...

Not commenting on whether there should be a setting because I always do homebrew, but not sure why you think it couldn't be an urban...

I mean, with third party publishing there have been approximately as many published 5E Settings as there are stars in the sky.