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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7857034" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I wasn't saying the dmg was bad, just that the section in question shows a giant blank spot in the dmg. </p><p>No matter how many times people say it, "In the forgotten realms" is FR not "setting neutral", when they have to publish things like the "serving a pantheon, philosophy, or force"sidebar on xge18 because that section of the DMG* avoided making any references to settings where those things are not only common but "Completely <em>Normal</em>", it doesn't get to say that it's "Setting Neutral". Rising has some setting neutral stuff like "An espionage agency is $words$words$words" before launching into examples of specific ones & the benefits/kinds of quests/type of campaign/etc they create, but FR's baselines are too different to even pretend that a lot of those setting neutral sections are capable of fitting cleanly in FR. Put in perspective, it's such an obvious blank spot that the person doing the Rising <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuMgHdUnUko" target="_blank">preview</a> kept saying things like "all this stuff should be in the dmg", "why is this not in the dmg", "this is awesome for dm's", etc</p><p></p><p>*There are many other examples, but that one happens to be the one so unflinchingly biased for FR's baselines to the exclusion of all else that you can see that glare from mars.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7857034, member: 93670"] I wasn't saying the dmg was bad, just that the section in question shows a giant blank spot in the dmg. No matter how many times people say it, "In the forgotten realms" is FR not "setting neutral", when they have to publish things like the "serving a pantheon, philosophy, or force"sidebar on xge18 because that section of the DMG* avoided making any references to settings where those things are not only common but "Completely [I]Normal[/I]", it doesn't get to say that it's "Setting Neutral". Rising has some setting neutral stuff like "An espionage agency is $words$words$words" before launching into examples of specific ones & the benefits/kinds of quests/type of campaign/etc they create, but FR's baselines are too different to even pretend that a lot of those setting neutral sections are capable of fitting cleanly in FR. Put in perspective, it's such an obvious blank spot that the person doing the Rising [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuMgHdUnUko']preview[/URL] kept saying things like "all this stuff should be in the dmg", "why is this not in the dmg", "this is awesome for dm's", etc *There are many other examples, but that one happens to be the one so unflinchingly biased for FR's baselines to the exclusion of all else that you can see that glare from mars. [/QUOTE]
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