Planescape Planescape IS D&D Says Jeremy Crawford

Planescape is Jeremy Crawford's favourite D&D setting. "It is D&D", he says, as he talks about how in the 2024 core rulebook updates Planescape will be more up front and center as "the setting of settings".

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[Charlaquin]

So Planescape is the new Core Setting, instead of FR? Does that mean FR can has a proper setting book like Eberron and Exandria?

Forgotten Realms has never been 5e’s default setting. Jeremy Crawford has been on record for years as saying that 5e’s default setting is “the multiverse,” in which FR, GH, Eberron, Ravenloft, and all the other various worlds exist.

In other words, Planescape has always low-key been the default setting, and they’re finally just saying the quiet part out loud.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm baffled how it matters to a homebrew at all. Seriously baffled.

 

[Charlaquin]

Planescape is D&D but D&D is not necessarily Planescape

He's pitching the Planescape set as being applicable to anyone who plays D&D, really talking up about how all of the elements of the boxed set are things that folks could potentially use in their own home campaigns regardless of whether it's home brew or a Wizards setting.

Which is a pretty solid pitch, TBH. I wasn’t particularly interested in the upcoming planescape book because I’m not particularly interested in running “a Planescape campaign.” But reframing it around the idea that 5e’s implied setting intentionally slots right in to Planescape makes it feel less like a new campaign setting book and more like a general expansion book for the default setting, which is much more interesting to me. Very clever marketing scheme indeed.

 

[Charlaquin]

Aw, heck yeah.

More than Planescape, though,I would suspect thst is related to the sample Adventure, sample Campaign, and sample Setting the DMG are apparently working with. Which I suspect are not Planar (please be Greyhawk, please be Greyhawk...)

I do wonder if the sample Advebture and Campaign will be new, or classics taken apart by Perkins as an expample...

Gives me hope for the idea that the 2024 DMG’s example setting might be something like Nentir Vale. If they’re admitting that the implied setting is Planescape, it makes more sense for the example in the DMG to be something outside of that cosmology, in order to demonstrate what kind of stuff a DM can do with homebrew, should they be so inclined.

 

[Parmandur]

Gives me hope for the idea that the 2024 DMG’s example setting might be something like Nentir Vale. If they’re admitting that the implied setting is Planescape, it makes more sense for the example in the DMG to be something outside of that cosmology, in order to demonstrate what kind of stuff a DM can do with homebrew, should they be so inclined.

I would thinknit would imply the opposite, since theybwould want the example to be grounded in their IP?

Could be Nentir Vale, still, but I would suspect they would Great Wheel-ify the Nentir Vale if so.

 

[Charlaquin]

I would thinknit would imply the opposite, since theybwould want the example to be grounded in their IP?

Could be Nentir Vale, still, but I would suspect they would Great Wheel-ify the Nentir Vale if so.

Maybe not NV specifically, but I would think if the default setting uses the Great Wheel, including an example non-Great-Wheel setting in the DMG makes the most sense as a way to show off the scope of what a DM can do. In much the same way as how the 2014 core rules treat the FR pantheon of gods as default and then gives the Dawn War pantheon as an example of an alternative in the DMG.

The Dawn War pantheon being the example in the 2014 DMG does make actual, factual Nentir Vale as the example setting in the 2024 DMG seem more plausible to me as well.

 

[Vincent55]

While i agree, with planescape being a pimary setting, and everything else branching off, i see no point in investing in D&D any more.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe not NV specifically, but I would think if the default setting uses the Great Wheel, including an example non-Great-Wheel setting in the DMG makes the most sense as a way to show off the scope of what a DM can do. In much the same way as how the 2014 core rules treat the FR pantheon of gods as default and then gives the Dawn War pantheon as an example of an alternative in the DMG.

The Dawn War pantheon being the example in the 2014 DMG does make actual, factual Nentir Vale as the example setting in the 2024 DMG seem more plausible to me as well.

It dies sound like they plan to use the DMG to market the Great Wheel as IP, more than create a tools etc aeperate from it...

 

[Divine2021]

So who’s going to tell them that multiverses are lame as hell and completely played out?

 

[Kurotowa]

So who’s going to tell them that multiverses are lame as hell and completely played out?

Hold on, let me check on that for you. Checks the recent reception for Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Mortal Kombat 1. Yeah, you can go ahead and tell them that if you want, but I somehow don't think they're going to believe you.