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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 4626608" data-attributes="member: 10913">But rules, when done well, intertwine with the setting. The rules of D&D (most of all in 4e) are primarily geared to providing an action-packed, balanced gaming experience. The rules of Ars Magica are primarily geared to provide a political, myth-packed, game. In Ars Magica having been raised by faeries is a game-option, in D&D, it is just background fluff. It is possible to house rule the game or play a historically- ot mythical-focused D&D game, certainly. But all I'm saying is that it's better to just play a system that is more geared to your taste. Among the advantages, is that you'll also find lots of supplements echoing your tastes.I mean, really, look at the latest Ars Magica and D&D supplements. Wizards is about to release <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/Products/Default.aspx?doc=239887200" target="_blank">A Practical Guide to Faeries</a>. I don't know what it would contain, but the info-text says "from the underground workshop where brownies craft toys to the enchanted forests where pixies play stickyball." Atlas Games is about to release <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG0290.php" target="_blank">Realms of Power: Faerie</a>, whose <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/RoPFaerieToC.pdf" target="_blank">Table of Contents</a> includes things like "Elysium in Romances and Marchen" and portrayals of the Lamia, Satyr which I am sure would be much closer to their myths than the Monster Manual's.Another recent Ars Magica release is <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG0287.php" target="_blank">Art & Academe</a>, a sourcebook about medieval educational and artistic institutions and their beliefs, including rules for medicine based on the four humors, predicting the future based on Ptolemaic astrology, describing the universities in Europe around 1220, and so on. I don't see such a book in Wizards' stock.So there is a market for historically-driven and myth-driven gaming, and supplements are regularly put out to sate such hungers. That the Mystic Vistas line only supported one setting-book at a time, failing to provide more, is mainly because it doesn't attract enough attention, and that is because it is founded on a system that isn't geared to that taste. To find more supplements to fit that taste, you have no choice but to go to other systems, ones more geared to support it.Different games suit different people. D&D is geared to a certain type of game, and so are its supplements. Using it to support a different sort of game is possible, and there are some supplements out there to do so, but it's better to simply adopt a game that is more to your taste - you'll get both the more-fitting rules, and (for a well-supported game, like Ars Magica) supplements far more likely to be to your taste.</blockquote>

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