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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrokenTwin" data-source="post: 8815122" data-attributes="member: 7017978">All a setting is is just a default set of assumptions and ideas. That involves what type of people exist in the setting in question. Knowing that information makes the setting more valuable as a consumer, because the whole point of purchasing someone else's setting instead of creating your own wholecloth is acquiring that default set of assumptions, which you would hopefully want to be carefully crafted and considered and not tossed together at random. Mess with it as much as you want once you have it, but make the initial purchase worth the price.I don't think MaxPerson or mamba are saying "if you put orcs in DL you're doing badwrongfun". In fact, I think they've been pretty clear on that. Buy the new DL book and add orcs to it at your table, I doubt either will object or care. Will the DL book be a terrible product solely because it doesn't include a list of default ancestries? No. But it would be a better setting product if it did, because it would be offering more detail as to the world as the writers envision it.Having said all that, I'm not the market audience for this book anyway. I prefer settings that offer a lens on a tightly focused concept, idea, or theme, and DL's a little too "generic fantasy" to fit that bill for me. But for people looking for a broader scope setting (or just enamored by any specific detail of DL), the book might be perfect for them. Even if they need to add orcs to it at their table. Because it's not that hard to do, and isn't hurting anybody.</blockquote>

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