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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[bedir than]

So Planescape is the new Core Setting, instead of FR?

He doesn't say, nor suggest this.
He's talking about why it's his favorite setting and how it connects to everything else in official D&D

 

[kenmarable]

Um, how about no? I don't need someone else saying "this has to be the way it's going to be." If I want to chuck FR, Ravenloft, Planescape or Dark Sun out the window in favor of the cosmology of my homebrew, that's the way it used to be and how it should be.

And I'm willing to bet that is still how it will be. (Especially since they have been explicitly saying that for a couple years at least.)

If anything this supports that even more if they don't have FR (or Tolkein-with-numbers-filed-off) versions of all the races/species, for example. Right now, the PHB is already very clearly written for a certain type of setting. Taking a step back from that to instead present that material as more open to a variety of settings/multiversal helps it be more compatible with homebrew than what they have now.

 

[Micah Sweet]

WotC has never, nor will they ever, say this.

Perhaps not, but if that's the implication it would definitely represent a shift in emphasis. Like I said, haven't seen the video.

 

[Stormonu]

Not if you don't want a non-Great Wheel cosmology, like Eberron or Dark Sun.

 

[ersatzphil]

Um, how about no? I don't need someone else saying "this has to be the way it's going to be." If I want to chuck FR, Ravenloft, Planescape or Dark Sun out the window in favor of the cosmology of my homebrew, that's the way it used to be and how it should be.

Speaking as a “back in the day” D&D nerd, I always thought it was neat that you could simultaneously have Planescape where everything was connected, and Dark Sun* and Eberron where they somewhat expressly weren’t.

*Yes, I know about the gith and the Blackspine mountains. I think it’s a bit silly.

 

[Zaukrie]

sigh.

 

[Reynard]

D&D should have a default setting. I can't think of many RPGs that don't have a default setting.

No. No it doesn't. The vast majority of players home brew. What is the point of a default setting?

 

[Scribe]

I said years ago, Planescape should have been the way.

Now, please just let them nail it, and I can ride off happy.

 

[Zaukrie]

No. No it doesn't. The vast majority of players home brew. What is the point of a default setting?

Can't really have lore at all without an implied setting....lore literally implies a setting.

 

[Reynard]

Can't really have lore at all without an implied setting....lore literally implies a setting.

An "implied setting" is not a default setting.