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<blockquote data-quote="bwgwl" data-source="post: 177665" data-attributes="member: 3876">re: &quot;toolbox&quot; D&amp;Dhere here! this is the major reason why i play D&amp;D instead of most other systems. i love world-building. i love world-building more than i like DMing games.systems that have a setting hard-wired into the rules leave me cold, because i don't want to play in someone else's world, i want to play in my own! i'm not saying the settings i come up with are any better than those created by published game designers, but like Melan says, they're mine, so they are more special to me.if Mr. Wick hates D&amp;D for its genericness, he'll probably flip his lid over FREd (5th edition HERO system). it's got even less setting-specific stuff in it than D&amp;D. no default races, classes, spells, monsters ... nothing. not even a default genre! HERO is there to let the GM create all that stuff himself. it even says it right on the cover: &quot;The Ultimate Gamer's Toolkit.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bwgwl, post: 177665, member: 3876"] [b]re: "toolbox" D&D[/b] here here! this is the [i]major[/i] reason why i play D&D instead of most other systems. i love world-building. i love world-building more than i like DMing games. systems that have a setting hard-wired into the rules leave me cold, because i don't want to play in someone else's world, i want to play in my own! i'm not saying the settings i come up with are any better than those created by published game designers, but like Melan says, they're mine, so they are more special to me. if Mr. Wick hates D&D for its genericness, he'll probably flip his lid over FREd (5th edition HERO system). it's got even [i]less[/i] setting-specific stuff in it than D&D. no default races, classes, spells, monsters ... nothing. not even a default genre! HERO is there to let the GM create all that stuff himself. it even says it right on the cover: "The Ultimate Gamer's Toolkit." [/QUOTE]

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