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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5474119" data-attributes="member: 59082">It is rare that there is a rule for which there are no exceptions, especially when it comes to people's associations and preferences. You might just be the type of person that likes to play with things, like mixing and matching systems and settings, but for 95% of gamers people stick to the pre-given matching (except, of course, the d20 era).But my point was that every published RPG has a default setting, or group of thematic elements that make up a kind of &quot;pseudo-setting,&quot; or assumed setting. For instance, in D&amp;D it is assumed that all or most of the monsters in the various Monster Manuals exist in the campaign world, that there are certain races and classes, that there are gold coins and magical swords with specific, iconic characteristics. Now of course there are no set rules - and an individual DM can have purple dwarves and no goblin races or metal weapons, but again, those are the exceptions and they tend to be variations on the theme rather than completely different themes.BTW, it is too bad that the D&amp;D 4E Earthdawn game was mixed or put on hold indefinitely. I was looking forward to that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5474119, member: 59082"] It is rare that there is a rule for which there are no exceptions, especially when it comes to people's associations and preferences. You might just be the type of person that likes to play with things, like mixing and matching systems and settings, but for 95% of gamers people stick to the pre-given matching (except, of course, the d20 era). But my point was that every published RPG has a default setting, or group of thematic elements that make up a kind of "pseudo-setting," or assumed setting. For instance, in D&D it is assumed that all or most of the monsters in the various Monster Manuals exist in the campaign world, that there are certain races and classes, that there are gold coins and magical swords with specific, iconic characteristics. Now of course there are no set rules - and an individual DM can have purple dwarves and no goblin races or metal weapons, but again, those are the exceptions and they tend to be variations on the theme rather than completely different themes. BTW, it is too bad that the D&D 4E Earthdawn game was mixed or put on hold indefinitely. I was looking forward to that. [/QUOTE]

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