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What's your favourite TTRPG for a fantasy setting?
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You cannot really separate setting and system. For example, the D&D system uses Vancian magic. That isn’t how magic works in Lord of the Rings. So you cannot „see Lotr through the lens of the D&D system“.
I completely agree that system can influence the setting; the entire point of playing different systems with our setting is to see how those systems impact our world building.
The very act of playing a dnd game in the setting of middle earth is seeing it through the lens of dnd!
So you’re looking for discussions like: Is Gandalf a wizard, sorcerer, or cleric? Which level are his spells?
Sounds like fun. 😄