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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6152341" data-attributes="member: 92511">No argument here. But they've said there is/will be a default...so there it is. To argue they shouldn't have one when they've already said they will is...well...pointless.Agreed. But see above. It's there. Refuting it being there when it already is...pointless.They are, as you note, their settings. If you don't like how they're doing it...as you say, make your own. What's the issue?And, again, initiate imagination for .00002 nanoseconds and make it what you want. If you can't be bothered [I personally would say then you probably don't have the time to play D&D], but assuming you want to, follow what the books say if you have neither the capacity nor desire to alter it to your own preferences. I fail to see how any of this is impeded.(emphasis mine)Just so.I am not, I don't believe anywhere, asserting it is "necessary design-wise". I certainly don't believe it is. The powers that be in the WotC continuum, be they design driven, marketing/brand driven, product driven, whatever, seem to have decided this is what they want to get the results they desire.   How, again, is what they release saying you MUST APPLY THIS SET UP TO ALL OF THE GAME WORLDS WE PRODUCE! They cannot make "ALL MYTHOLOGICAL INFINITIES, in perpetuity, to the end of days, IP, copyright and registered tm WotC."  They are saying they are using those default assumptions. I guarantee you, the game will make clear you don't have to use them all verbatim or SO GODS HELP YOU the Wizard of the Coast Bounty Hunters are gonna come to your house and take all your D&D stuff away for violating transdimensional inter-planar licenses!I get the feeling you just read up to the line you objected to and then ignored everything else I said. That's fine. No scales off my back. I'm not a "brand analyst" either, but have my share of production, marketing and advertising experience. And an understanding that, even in the development of fantasy worlds, the real world business-side of things versus the creative side of things are rarely [if ever] on the same page.  They does what they does, for better or worse, for their own products/goals. Does that, hopefully, run in line with a majority of what a majority of their target audience wants? yes, of course. But as history has shown, that is not always the case. Long post, short [too late, I know], a default cosmology is not going to somehow RUIN your conceptions of your own. Want to disagree it is a "good" decision. Fine. But that's not going to change anything. They made it...for their settings...their products. Have fun with yours.</blockquote>

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