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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9118775" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The pseudo-medieval setting is pretty familiar with a lot of people and does a lot of foundational assumptions for us.  I can describe castles and fighters in shining armor and even if it's not historically accurate it still resonates with people.  So that generic fantasy setting helps sell the game.Meanwhile the core assumptions leave us with a lot of room to play.  We don't have a single core setting that we're working from, we don't have to worry about established lore of the Jedi and an Evil Empire.  If we want to create brand new worlds, brand new mythologies we can in the way that some other games would be less acceptable.  In D&D it's standard that we have different worlds and different approaches, we aren't always (or at least almost always) fighting some eldritch horror like Call of Chthulhu.  If I want a bit of eldritch horror I can use that as a background, or gothic horror, or pirates or dungeon delving.  Frequently we mix things up in one campaign, sometimes in one session.The heart of the game is the role playing free form imaginative side contrasted by the relatively simplistic combat (as opposed to what a real combat sim would be).  The game gives us just enough rules to make those work without, for the most part, getting overly complicated. Nothing is perfect of course, but I'm still laughing out loud one moment while having a tense moment the next and a silly one after that.  I'm still having fun playing the game and DMing after decades.  It's an escape from the real world for a while to get together with friends or make new ones.</blockquote>

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