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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8575711" data-attributes="member: 6704184">The idea that those two things, when literally part of the same cosmology, shouldn’t be the same “setting”, it’s just wild to me. Like having two games that are totally separate for playing in the ground front of the American Revolution and the naval front, or one for engaging in the diplomacy and intrigue and another for being an active revolutionary, but all under the same ruleset, with the same classes, same rules for non-combat challenges, etc. I’m just absolutely bewildered by the idea that they should be separate. And I see your position as similar to saying that a setting with trains and a setting with airplanes can’t possible be the same setting.&nbsp; &nbsp;Or, to use another existing setting as a comparative example, it’s like saying that an urban noir setting where one of the PCs steps off the platform of a magical train and into a magical taxi with an address for the other PCs P.I. Office at the start of a campaign full of cat and mouse intrigue, can’t possibly be the same setting as a pulp adventure setting where the heroes make a daring escape from the ruins of the ancient giantish castle with the mysterious artifact and are flown to the next locale in their patron’s airship.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8575711, member: 6704184"] The idea that those two things, when literally part of the same cosmology, shouldn’t be the same “setting”, it’s just wild to me. Like having two games that are totally separate for playing in the ground front of the American Revolution and the naval front, or one for engaging in the diplomacy and intrigue and another for being an active revolutionary, but all under the same ruleset, with the same classes, same rules for non-combat challenges, etc. I’m just absolutely bewildered by the idea that they should be separate. And I see your position as similar to saying that a setting with trains and a setting with airplanes can’t possible be the same setting. Or, to use another existing setting as a comparative example, it’s like saying that an urban noir setting where one of the PCs steps off the platform of a magical train and into a magical taxi with an address for the other PCs P.I. Office at the start of a campaign full of cat and mouse intrigue, can’t possibly be the same setting as a pulp adventure setting where the heroes make a daring escape from the ruins of the ancient giantish castle with the mysterious artifact and are flown to the next locale in their patron’s airship. [/QUOTE]

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