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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1054701" data-attributes="member: 10201">riiight...&nbsp; That's why it doesn't assume particular races are PCs, vice enemies; doesn't make any assumptions about the sorts of roles that are tied to various skill sets, or which abilities go together [you wanna be sneaky and deceptive?&nbsp; you must also be interested in killing people by surprise.]; doesn't make any assumptions about what sorts of deities are worshipped, or, for that matter, what sorts of deities *can* be worshipped [where's the Domain of love&amp;sex? or [crop] fertility &amp; health?]; and *certainly* doesn't assume a particular style of campaign by focusing on one sort of challenge almost to the exclusion of others.&lt;/sarcasm&gt;Monte's absolutely right: there's a *lot* of setting built into D&amp;D, and there always has been.&nbsp; It's a lie to pretend otherwise, and hopeless to try and divorce it completely--you'd end up with something like Aria: awesome game, but can't really be played &quot;out of the box&quot;.&nbsp; Embracing the setting causes fewer problems than trying to pretend it's not there--you end up with all sorts of built-in bits that you can't address becaues they supposedly aren't there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1054701, member: 10201"] riiight... That's why it doesn't assume particular races are PCs, vice enemies; doesn't make any assumptions about the sorts of roles that are tied to various skill sets, or which abilities go together [you wanna be sneaky and deceptive? you must also be interested in killing people by surprise.]; doesn't make any assumptions about what sorts of deities are worshipped, or, for that matter, what sorts of deities *can* be worshipped [where's the Domain of love&sex? or [crop] fertility & health?]; and *certainly* doesn't assume a particular style of campaign by focusing on one sort of challenge almost to the exclusion of others. </sarcasm> Monte's absolutely right: there's a *lot* of setting built into D&D, and there always has been. It's a lie to pretend otherwise, and hopeless to try and divorce it completely--you'd end up with something like Aria: awesome game, but can't really be played "out of the box". Embracing the setting causes fewer problems than trying to pretend it's not there--you end up with all sorts of built-in bits that you can't address becaues they supposedly aren't there. [/QUOTE]

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