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Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
There are certainly relatively successful games that don't have a well known setting; you mentioned GURPS, but Hero also landed in this area, and until its crash which had relatively little to do with its popularity, BESM.

But that doesn't mean setting doesn't have some heft in the success of a game.
I don't know that HERO would be in the shape it's in without Champions. Surely MERP had a little something to do with it also. I'm betting that the situation there is much like here; There are two or three well-known settings, and a handful of minor, even obscure ones.
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