[quote=@WolfredWolf]
We're not exactly trying to make or play a Zelda game. Rather, we're having a story take place in that world- as if it were a fantasy setting rather than a video game.
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well, the tropes I mentioned can serve as the narrative device, e.g. the Light characters are on a mission to search for powerful magical items and the GM can add a certain ability in the CS for any who possess the item.

Or... we can have a Goron opening a weapon shop, managing it as a company and monopolizing the whole blacksmith business throughout Hyrule