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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 3751345" data-attributes="member: 3867">It's the system.  D&D is a tool to be used to run whatever game you want in whatever setting.Setting is something that can be coupled with system, but doesn't have to be.  Take a look at Dragonlance.  It's a D&D world and has been tied to various incarnations of the D&D rules.  Yet it has also been tied to the SAGA rules.  So Dragonlance can be a D&D setting, but it doesn't have to be.  Same with any setting, really.  You can, for example, run Dark Sun with C&C rules or the Realms with the d6 rules.As for what makes something a D&D game, my inner cynic says that it's whatever WotC slaps the D&D label on.  After all, AD&D and d20 are different in many ways, yet they're both still D&D.  The end result is that what is constituted as being D&D is whatever WotC determines to be D&D.I should probably also add that the various settings are tied so closely with D&D that if D&D was ever to be sold, the settings would go along with the system.So you have two things which can be separate, but which are tied closely together.  Hope that makes sense.EDIT:  Or what Charles Ryan said!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>