Sage Advice: Plane and world hopping (includes how Eberron and Ravnica fit in D&D cosmology)

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The beauty of the game is that the publisher can do whatever they wish to suit their needs and I can summarily edit it to whatever it is that my players and I prefer or need.

Good stuff though.
KB

Yep, I've been ignoring D&D planar stuff for decades.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

How many times do they have to say "rulings over rules" before it sinks in? On top of that, the "official" version of "you can get to Eberron from Sigil" will probably be in Insert Random Eberron Guy's Name's Guide to Eberron (which they will rename the PDF into when making a final print version) just like they have done for the last couple of splat books, so you are completely okay to assume Random Eberron Guy is wrong.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

So if every setting is contained in the same Multiverse does that mean that when the Forgotten Realms was part of the World Tree and World Axis cosmologies that all other campaign settings were, too?

Crawford's statements only apply to the 5E designers' take on the Multiverse, where Eberron's cosmology is effectively fake and only believed by ignoramuses. 3E and 4E's Eberrons have their own cosmology independent of the Great Wheel.

 

[gyor]

So if every setting is contained in the same Multiverse does that mean that when the Forgotten Realms was part of the World Tree and World Axis cosmologies that all other campaign settings were, too?

Crawford's statements only apply to the 5E designers' take on the Multiverse, where Eberron's cosmology is effectively fake and only believed by ignoramuses. 3E and 4E's Eberrons have their own cosmology independent of the Great Wheel.

Eberron's cosmology isn't fake so much as a small cosmology inside a larger cosmology.

Like those Russian Nesting eggs or whatever they are called.

 

[gyor]

"The Old Alphatia Dimension
The Nightmare Dimension
The Vortex Dimension
The Dimension of Myth - contains Laterre. The source of "real world" mythologies."

I'd guess these would be part of the far realms in 5e.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Eberron's cosmology isn't fake so much as a small cosmology inside a larger cosmology.

Like those Russian Nesting eggs or whatever they are called.

So everyone in Eberron is ignorant? They have had mages and scholars exploring the depths of creation, and they just have no idea there is a world beyond there own?


How are people who are ignorant of a world beyond their own generally depicted in literature and media? My experience, it generally isn't a positive portrayal. because they must learn "THE TRUTH"

 

[cbwjm]

Yep, I've been ignoring D&D planar stuff for decades.

Same, as far as I'm concerned, crystal spheres don't exist.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

So everyone in Eberron is ignorant? They have had mages and scholars exploring the depths of creation, and they just have no idea there is a world beyond there own?


How are people who are ignorant of a world beyond their own generally depicted in literature and media? My experience, it generally isn't a positive portrayal. because they must learn "THE TRUTH"

Why should they? The dominant mystical paradigm is that there are X number of worlds/planes in the universe and they have never had a githyanki armada pop up from somewhere else to make them question the paradigm. If you study the nature of paradigms, you will discover that people with alternative worldviews get ignored or oppressed, so any Eberron guy who made it to Sigil probably got locked up in an Eberron institution when he got back. And who else is going to tell them? The demons? The devils? The Gods?

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Who's "Truth"? What do the clueless berks of Sigil know of the Prophecy and the Orrey of Worlds?

 

[Yaarel]

It is disrespectful to reallife players to tell them their favorite setting is officially false and stupid.