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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1862325" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yeah, but that's just it; the D&amp;D ruleset is not stripped down and setting neutral in the least.&nbsp; How many fantasy settings do you know that have anything like the cleric class in them?&nbsp; How many do you know that have all these spellcasting woodsmen?&nbsp; How many settings do you know in which there's this sharp divide between types of magic; arcane and divine?&nbsp; How many settings do you know that have spells at all like the D&amp;D spell-list?Chances are, all the settings you know that have those things are, guess what?, D&amp;D settings.Actually, that's not true; Monte said in the Design Diaries that he was recognizing how much setting information was imbedded in the rules, and was specifically trying to imbed different setting information in the rules.&nbsp; He wasn't trying to imbed more setting information.&nbsp; In other words, AU is nothing more nor less than D&amp;D, but not D&amp;D.&nbsp; D&amp;D without the D&amp;Disms, if you will.&nbsp; Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed, as an alternate PHB, is just as setting neutral as the actual PHB; it just so happens that there is only one setting available for it; the Diamond Throne.&nbsp; It'd be interesting to see, although I doubt there's a market for it, if someone else were to take that ruleset and publish another setting for it.&nbsp; It could certainly be done as easily as we can have Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and whatever other settings for the PHB assumptions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1862325, member: 2205"] Yeah, but that's just it; the D&D ruleset is [b]not[/b] stripped down and setting neutral in the least. How many fantasy settings do you know that have anything like the cleric class in them? How many do you know that have all these spellcasting woodsmen? How many settings do you know in which there's this sharp divide between types of magic; arcane and divine? How many settings do you know that have spells at all like the D&D spell-list? Chances are, all the settings you know that have those things are, guess what?, D&D settings. Actually, that's not true; Monte said in the Design Diaries that he was recognizing how much setting information was imbedded in the rules, and was specifically trying to imbed [b]different[/b] setting information in the rules. He wasn't trying to imbed more setting information. In other words, AU is nothing more nor less than D&D, but not D&D. D&D without the D&Disms, if you will. [i]Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed[/i], as an alternate PHB, is just as setting neutral as the actual PHB; it just so happens that there is only one setting available for it; the Diamond Throne. It'd be interesting to see, although I doubt there's a market for it, if someone else were to take that ruleset and publish another setting for it. It could certainly be done as easily as we can have Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and whatever other settings for the PHB assumptions. [/QUOTE]

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