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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 8819438" data-attributes="member: 6686357"><p>The cosmology wasn’t fixed in place. They recapped the various cosmologies that were default for some edition or prominent suggestions. The great wheel is treated as the implicit cosmology in 5e, but since WotC doesn’t write planar adventures it’s purely academic at this point.</p><p></p><p>Making a stripped down setting that reduces the number of outer planes to 9, combines all the elemental planes into one, combines the ethereal and astral planes, or whatever… that would require more effort that just recapping the gist of PS and leaving it up to licensed products to fill the gaps.</p><p></p><p>I’m not a fan of letting licensed products fill the gap because it’s lazy and leads to annoying inconsistencies. IIRC, eladrins and guardinals have been retconned to fey but the planar bestiaries on DM Guild ignore that and just adapt the 2e cosmology without adjustment.</p><p></p><p>I really would like the cosmology to be simplified (at least from a top-down perspective; the individual geography can still be infinite and varied) because, nostalgia aside, the MotP cosmology is an overcomplicated mess created by nerds with severe OCD. I vastly prefer cosmologies like 4e’s World Axis or the hypothetical Omniverse cosmology. But the amount of work involved would be extensive and I don’t see modern WotC going to that effort. </p><p></p><p>I think they’re just going to recap the gist of PS with minor changes and a ton of glossing over that they’ll expect DM Guild to detail for them. The faction war and its aftermath will probably be ignored, not that I expect anyone to be unhappy about that. It will probably be disappointing to Planescape fans, much like how the other previous 2e revivals have generally been disappointing to fans.</p><p></p><p>At this point I’d be more excited if WotC licensed out crpgs in these settings. Stone Prophet II, Pirates of Realmspace II, Torment II, whatever</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 8819438, member: 6686357"] The cosmology wasn’t fixed in place. They recapped the various cosmologies that were default for some edition or prominent suggestions. The great wheel is treated as the implicit cosmology in 5e, but since WotC doesn’t write planar adventures it’s purely academic at this point. Making a stripped down setting that reduces the number of outer planes to 9, combines all the elemental planes into one, combines the ethereal and astral planes, or whatever… that would require more effort that just recapping the gist of PS and leaving it up to licensed products to fill the gaps. I’m not a fan of letting licensed products fill the gap because it’s lazy and leads to annoying inconsistencies. IIRC, eladrins and guardinals have been retconned to fey but the planar bestiaries on DM Guild ignore that and just adapt the 2e cosmology without adjustment. I really would like the cosmology to be simplified (at least from a top-down perspective; the individual geography can still be infinite and varied) because, nostalgia aside, the MotP cosmology is an overcomplicated mess created by nerds with severe OCD. I vastly prefer cosmologies like 4e’s World Axis or the hypothetical Omniverse cosmology. But the amount of work involved would be extensive and I don’t see modern WotC going to that effort. I think they’re just going to recap the gist of PS with minor changes and a ton of glossing over that they’ll expect DM Guild to detail for them. The faction war and its aftermath will probably be ignored, not that I expect anyone to be unhappy about that. It will probably be disappointing to Planescape fans, much like how the other previous 2e revivals have generally been disappointing to fans. At this point I’d be more excited if WotC licensed out crpgs in these settings. Stone Prophet II, Pirates of Realmspace II, Torment II, whatever [/QUOTE]
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