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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6646733" data-attributes="member: 58172">Baked-in setting assumptions include the Great Wheel, its gods, its alignments, and the cosmology in general. I find these intrusive organizing assumptions, impossible to escape from in too many pages in the core books. In 5e, I am also finding the ‘weave’, and how this setting assumption defines magic, such as versus psionics, likewise intrusive and constraining. I was frustrated when a 5e D&D player insisted the Wizard class can never be used to make a psionic option, because it would contradict the ‘core’ setting assumption that the Wizard must be ‘arcane’ using the ‘weave’, thus ‘can not’ be ‘psionic’ using the ‘mind’. These kinds of setting assumptions kill my enjoyment of 5e.Similarly, I resent the assumption of a ‘multiverse’, where all settings are ‘true’, because it forces unwanted and inappropriate settings assumptions to necessarily exist in every setting, albeit a distance away.I want a return to the 1e ethic, where the players (DM and adventurers) are *supposed* to invent their own settings from scratch - for their own groups - without relying on the core rules to do the hand-holding or the heavy-handedness.I want the setting gone from the rules.Settings belong in a separate setting guide.The current 5e Players Handbook deserves to be renamed the ‘Forgotten Realms Players Handbook’. When the Dark Sun setting comes out, it needs a completely different Players Handbook, with the same core rules rewritten and deeply reflavored with different setting assumptions, called the ‘Dark Sun Players Handbook’.I dislike having to look up rules, only to be forced to adopt ‘wrong’ setting details that are dissonant and disruptive to the tone and outlook of the settings that I myself use.I require a gaming system that it is setting neutral - unless in some unlikely event the setting is perfect so I love it in every way.I require customizability of flavor.At least until 4e, when references to gods became intrusive and ubiquitous, D&D core rules were once intended for use in any kind of setting.</blockquote>

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