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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4713191" data-attributes="member: 18280">Sorry, but this is a conflation of different meanings of the term &quot;set-up&quot;.Set-up includes two parts, one of which doesn't (and shouldn't) necessarily survive character creation, and one of which does.&nbsp; IOW, &quot;Minotaurs are only found in the Big Forest&quot; may change as a result of PC action, but &quot;Minotaurs have X HD&quot; generally should not.If the PCs engineer a major change to the world's power structure, that's cool.&nbsp; Great, even.&nbsp; But they should be doing so, IMHO, despite the factors that caused the original status quo, not simply through modifying the rules to create the desired outcome.(Of course, the DM can modify what rules he wishes to change the initial status quo.)There are so many &quot;funny&quot; answers I could give here, but the real answer is that the dominance of a nation is not the same thing as the dominance of a species.Even as RCFG is written in its current draft, it is entirely possible to imagine an elf-dominated world through the accumulation of temporal power, even if it wouldn't be the &quot;baseline&quot; RCFG world.Like I said earlier, though, right now everything is potentially mutable.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4713191, member: 18280"] Sorry, but this is a conflation of different meanings of the term "set-up". Set-up includes two parts, one of which doesn't (and shouldn't) necessarily survive character creation, and one of which does. IOW, "Minotaurs are only found in the Big Forest" may change as a result of PC action, but "Minotaurs have X HD" generally should not. If the PCs engineer a major change to the world's power structure, that's cool. Great, even. But they should be doing so, IMHO, [i][b]despite the factors that caused the original status quo[/b][/i][b][/b], not simply through modifying the rules to create the desired outcome. (Of course, the DM can modify what rules he wishes to change the [i][b]initial status quo[/b][/i][b][/b].) There are so many "funny" answers I could give here, but the real answer is that the dominance of a nation is not the same thing as the dominance of a species. Even as RCFG is written in its current draft, it is entirely possible to imagine an elf-dominated world through the accumulation of temporal power, even if it wouldn't be the "baseline" RCFG world. Like I said earlier, though, right now everything is potentially mutable. RC [/QUOTE]

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