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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8408823" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>While this is a well-thought out post, I'm not sure why you are breaking down my statement like this. You seem to agree with my perception that restricting our discussion to only "core" DnD and not discussing settings is misplaced, and you also seem to agree that having the realms as the baseline, while saying the core is setting agnostic is a bit weird.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay, let me ask you this. What do we know about the Egyptian Pantheon in DnD that makes it in anyway different than just taking a list of Egyptian Gods from a Middle School History text book and putting them in the game? </p><p></p><p>Marvel took Thor, Loki, Odin and others and made them a core part of their IP, but they also changed them and you can discuss the Marvel versions without once having to reference the source material. Many other IPs that use these things pre-suppose that they take place in our world and that those historical facts are real. </p><p></p><p>DnD does neither of these things. It is just a list of names maybe a reference to mummies, and that's it. Norse and Celtic are just name lists. They aren't "core" to DnD, they exist as an option because sometimes people want to make fantasy Not!Egypt et all and listing out names isn't hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8408823, member: 6801228"] While this is a well-thought out post, I'm not sure why you are breaking down my statement like this. You seem to agree with my perception that restricting our discussion to only "core" DnD and not discussing settings is misplaced, and you also seem to agree that having the realms as the baseline, while saying the core is setting agnostic is a bit weird. Okay, let me ask you this. What do we know about the Egyptian Pantheon in DnD that makes it in anyway different than just taking a list of Egyptian Gods from a Middle School History text book and putting them in the game? Marvel took Thor, Loki, Odin and others and made them a core part of their IP, but they also changed them and you can discuss the Marvel versions without once having to reference the source material. Many other IPs that use these things pre-suppose that they take place in our world and that those historical facts are real. DnD does neither of these things. It is just a list of names maybe a reference to mummies, and that's it. Norse and Celtic are just name lists. They aren't "core" to DnD, they exist as an option because sometimes people want to make fantasy Not!Egypt et all and listing out names isn't hard. [/QUOTE]
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