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A comment on Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996). Parent comment
And yet that is what every successful RPG does.
Story != Themes.
Setting/cosmology/pantheon/bestiary/etcetera != Story.
D&D is the system, or “game”, with many settings from Planescape to Spelljammer.
The Forgotten Reams is a setting, with many stories from Drizzt Do’Urden to Neverwinter Nights.
And yet that is what every successful RPG does.
Story != Themes.
Setting/cosmology/pantheon/bestiary/etcetera != Story.
D&D is the system, or “game”, with many settings from Planescape to Spelljammer.
The Forgotten Reams is a setting, with many stories from Drizzt Do’Urden to Neverwinter Nights.