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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 7355300" data-attributes="member: 1288">The D&D rules have never, ever been setting-agnostic. They have always included elements of one setting or another, even if it was only implied. From the artifacts to the spell names to the outer planes to the very nature of some of the core classes, the game has always leaned toward or implied a certain style of fantasy setting.It has also supported other types of play, because there have rarely been assumptions one couldn't easily toss out.I rarely use the Great Wheel in my campaigns, for instance. But I prefer it to be in the books than not, because without examples to refer to, the text becomes dull and lifeless. I'd rather read something inspiring that I'm going to change for my own game than a textbook of rules without flavor.Nothing they've done, or appear to be doing, in 5E makes the game any more rigid or locked into a single setting or style than in any prior numbered edition--and in some ways, it's much less so.</blockquote>