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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5771123" data-attributes="member: 22424">I'm torn. I found the default setting gave some nice context to the rules, especially when I couldn't be bothered coming up with my own setting. And I did like PoL land.On the other hand, I didn't like that the default setting became so pervasive in the supplements - things like the 3e "Manual of the Planes" lost a huge amount of utility if you didn't use the Great Wheel, for example.I would definitely construct the Divine classes such that the default assumption was that they didn't have a specific deity. That is, a Paladin is just a paladin, dedicated to some cause - but in the core he doesn't have to declare a deity, nor are his powers customisable according to his deity. As with many other things, add this later (probably in the setting-specific materials).(This is especially important for the Cleric in the Starter Set. The fewer choices a new player has to make creating a character, the better. Especially when they don't have the context for making the choice - how is the newbie to know whether to choose Pelor or Heironyous? Sure, it's a tiny, tiny choice to make... but it's one more on top of many others. Cut it!)For the default setting itself... I say keep it, but only in the DMG, only as an example, and keep it nice and bare-bones for the DM to expand. That is, there should never be a 5e equivalent of the "Nentir Vale Gazeteer".(Incidentally, 2nd Edition did not use Greyhawk as the default setting, and deliberately so. Gygax and all of his works were very much out of favour in those days. The Core Rulebooks had a kind of pseudo-medieval default setting, although this was never explicitly stated. "Forgotten Realms Adventures" stated that FR was the default setting for the edition... but this wasn't really followed up in non-FR books.)</blockquote>

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