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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3725860" data-attributes="member: 1106">The implied setting and the default setting are two different things.The &quot;implied setting&quot; is just what the D&amp;D rules tell you about the kind of world D&amp;D gets played in.&nbsp; We can assume that D&amp;D's implied setting has elves, bards, swords and magic in it, because that's all in the PHB.&nbsp; The implied setting is not a setting as such, just a collection of tropes that D&amp;D assumes are likely to exist in a D&amp;D setting...thus the description &quot;implied&quot;.&nbsp; You could change D&amp;D's implied setting by getting rid of magic, for instance - that would change it fundamentally.The &quot;default setting&quot; is the setting which the core rules assume you're in if you haven't stated any particular world.&nbsp; In 3E, this was Greyhawk, and used Greyhawk gods as a sort of &quot;default pantheon&quot;.&nbsp; That's what this thread is discussing, not the implied setting (which you couldn't do away with even if you wanted to, because it'd take the D&amp;D out of D&amp;D).&nbsp; The default setting has the most proper nouns (e.g. names of people, places and gods).Hope that helps clear things up a bit...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3725860, member: 1106"] The implied setting and the default setting are two different things. The "implied setting" is just what the D&D rules tell you about the kind of world D&D gets played in. We can assume that D&D's implied setting has elves, bards, swords and magic in it, because that's all in the PHB. The implied setting is not a setting as such, just a collection of tropes that D&D assumes are likely to exist in a D&D setting...thus the description "implied". You could change D&D's implied setting by getting rid of magic, for instance - that would change it fundamentally. The "default setting" is the setting which the core rules assume you're in if you haven't stated any particular world. In 3E, this was Greyhawk, and used Greyhawk gods as a sort of "default pantheon". [i]That's[/i] what this thread is discussing, not the implied setting (which you couldn't do away with even if you wanted to, because it'd take the D&D out of D&D). The default setting has the most proper nouns (e.g. names of people, places and gods). Hope that helps clear things up a bit... [/QUOTE]

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