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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7687949" data-attributes="member: 907">Most RPGs are fairly closely tied to a particular setting: Shadowrun, Numenera, Star Wars (in various incarnations), Paranoia, Dragon Age, Ars Magica, Feng Shui, Legend of the Five Rings, and so on. I'd actually guess that it's more common with multiple games sharing one setting from different perspectives (e.g. old World of Darkness, FFG's Star Wars) than using the same game for multiple settings.Most cases of a game having multiple settings are "generic" games that get a single sourcebook or so for a particular setting, like GURPS or FATE. In these cases, the settings are often fairly divergent - you'd be more likely to have a space opera setting sourcebook, a fantasy setting sourcebook, and a horror setting sourcebook than three different fantasy sourcebooks with different geographies. Also, many of the games that do exist with multiple settings have started as a single-setting game and then, when proved popular, been retooled to be generic (Dragon Age to Fantasy Age, Runequest to Basic Roleplaying, Deadlands to Savage Worlds).In other words, D&D having many official settings is an abberation. I'd be sad, but not surprised, to see Wizards focusing exclusively on one setting.</blockquote>