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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MJEggertson" data-source="post: 234082" data-attributes="member: 845">That is the case with most settings, or the good ones, if you ask me. A setting isn't about rule lawyering or modifications, but providing a setting. An environment that the game takes place in. Modifications to the rules or adjustments to the race/class/whatever structures are secondary if they're important at all. What makes a good setting is how unique the ideas, the politics, the conflicts are.What sets Ravenloft apart form Greyhawk or the Realms has very little to do with supplemental rules or even a different map. Its the atmosphere, the politics, the general feel you imagine when you play in such an environment. If a setting doesn't provoke my mind into imagining something new in any of these areas, the setting is not worth the paper it's written on, if you ask me.If what you say is true, Zappo, about the style and mood, then you probably have a very good candidate. Like you say though, the trick is conveying it in such short space.</blockquote>