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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2888073" data-attributes="member: 22779">I prefer a setting that takes the rules into account when its developed rather than trying to shoehorn the rules in afterwards.  To me, the rules are the "physics" of the world.  In order for that world to function, it has to recognize those physics.  There shouldn't be a whole bunch of poor interactions between the setting and the rules and the only way to do that is to either create the rules after the setting or create the setting from the rules.If you create the rules, then create a setting and then try to dovetail the two together, IMO, it works very badly.  I guess I just really, really detest "exceptions".  For example, if magic is easily repeatable, as DnD magic is, then it makes very little sense to me that it would not permeate every level of society just as any advantageous idea does.  Some scoff at the idea of continual lights in a city, but, to me, it is simply an adjunct to the existing rules.  Either change those existing rules so that continual light no longer functions as written or accept that a ruler of a city would want a well lit city.</blockquote>