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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5812684" data-attributes="member: 32536">There is some value in a default setting in a rulebook, but it is not necessary, and many of the drawbacks outweigh the advantages. You can create interesting fluff for spells, classes, and abilities without building setting, and it is the former that is helpful, not the latter. To be honest, the constant references to setting assumptions and world history in 4E really annoyed me all the time. They went overboard on setting description in the 4E core books. It's been quite a while since I read my 3E books, so I don't remember how it was in them...There is also no reason whatsoever to have a default cosmology for the game. It was a mistake for 3E to make the great wheel a default cosmology. It was a mistake for WotC to create books that detailed a cosmological setting that were supposedly setting-independent. It was a really big mistake to do things like hardcode the 4E pantheon into feats and the channel divinity power in such a way that it made homebrew pantheons more difficult to use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 5812684, member: 32536"] There is some value in a default setting in a rulebook, but it is not necessary, and many of the drawbacks outweigh the advantages. You can create interesting fluff for spells, classes, and abilities without building setting, and it is the former that is helpful, not the latter. To be honest, the constant references to setting assumptions and world history in 4E really annoyed me all the time. They went overboard on setting description in the 4E core books. It's been quite a while since I read my 3E books, so I don't remember how it was in them... There is also no reason whatsoever to have a default cosmology for the game. It was a mistake for 3E to make the great wheel a default cosmology. It was a mistake for WotC to create books that detailed a cosmological setting that were supposedly setting-independent. It was a really big mistake to do things like hardcode the 4E pantheon into feats and the channel divinity power in such a way that it made homebrew pantheons more difficult to use. [/QUOTE]

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