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<blockquote data-quote="Igwilly" data-source="post: 7001365" data-attributes="member: 6801225"><p>For those who remember my days as a WotC forum member (cassi_Brazuca) (not that I expect that to happen) it's no surprise that I prefer 4e’s lore to the other editions. However, I do like many other settings which I “mine” to my campaign.</p><p>And honestly, talking about what was kept from 4e in 5e, I didn’t like it. The Feywild is actually 3.X Plane of Faerie, the Shadowfell is actually 3.X Plane of Shadow, and the Elemental Chaos is much more Planescape than 4e. Even in the list of Dawn War gods, they got all sort of alignments wrong – that is, many 4e gods belong to alignments other than those listed. It was so changed and so disconnected that I don’t see any reason to be there: it’s not a “thing from 4e” at all, and certainly didn’t appease my need for a 4e setting. It would be a better idea to just roll back the old Great Wheel alone and publish an “alternative” setting with the World Axis Cosmology. I don’t really understand this urge to merge every setting into one: some worlds are better being separate from the rest. And this new cosmology pretty much ruins any hope for PoL/Nerath, because they would – obviously – do one of those “edition cataclysms” and completely change the setting so it can fit into the “Multiverse”.</p><p>That’s not a nice time to be a 4e fan, that’s for sure <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Igwilly, post: 7001365, member: 6801225"] For those who remember my days as a WotC forum member (cassi_Brazuca) (not that I expect that to happen) it's no surprise that I prefer 4e’s lore to the other editions. However, I do like many other settings which I “mine” to my campaign. And honestly, talking about what was kept from 4e in 5e, I didn’t like it. The Feywild is actually 3.X Plane of Faerie, the Shadowfell is actually 3.X Plane of Shadow, and the Elemental Chaos is much more Planescape than 4e. Even in the list of Dawn War gods, they got all sort of alignments wrong – that is, many 4e gods belong to alignments other than those listed. It was so changed and so disconnected that I don’t see any reason to be there: it’s not a “thing from 4e” at all, and certainly didn’t appease my need for a 4e setting. It would be a better idea to just roll back the old Great Wheel alone and publish an “alternative” setting with the World Axis Cosmology. I don’t really understand this urge to merge every setting into one: some worlds are better being separate from the rest. And this new cosmology pretty much ruins any hope for PoL/Nerath, because they would – obviously – do one of those “edition cataclysms” and completely change the setting so it can fit into the “Multiverse”. That’s not a nice time to be a 4e fan, that’s for sure :D [/QUOTE]
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