D&D 5E DMG Preview: The Multiverse
- Thread starter Boarstorm
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At least they give a sentence to their other settings of the past.
Maybe, like in the Adventurers League pdf, they can even have links to the dndclassics pages with the settings. The AL pdf lists specific products but you could just as easily, in the DMG appendix, list the link to the setting specific products. For example, Mystara is http://www.dndclassics.com/browse.php?filters=0_44726_0
Maybe, like in the Adventurers League pdf, they can even have links to the dndclassics pages with the settings. The AL pdf lists specific products but you could just as easily, in the DMG appendix, list the link to the setting specific products. For example, Mystara is http://www.dndclassics.com/browse.php?filters=0_44726_0
DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
Man, that is some disappointing art. Total perspective failure.* And where is that wizard standing, exactly?
Glad to see a Dragonlance reboot.
I hope the logic applied to the new Outlands is representative of a holistic common sense approach to the planes. It never made any sense to me that the gate-towns made a perfect ring an arbitrary distance from the Spire on an otherwise infinite plane.
*OH, they've retconned the torus. Well, that's boring.
Glad to see a Dragonlance reboot.
I hope the logic applied to the new Outlands is representative of a holistic common sense approach to the planes. It never made any sense to me that the gate-towns made a perfect ring an arbitrary distance from the Spire on an otherwise infinite plane.
*OH, they've retconned the torus. Well, that's boring.
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The_Gneech
Explorer
Sigil always brings to my mind memories of Mordenkainen and Elminster having tea in the pages of Dragon Magazine, something I found amusing but couldn't take seriously as part of actual play. It's arbitrary, I realize... why should the idea of D&D worlds being connected and interchangeable be any more or less of a problem for the suspension of disbelief than the average kobold? They're both equally fictional, and it might even explain why every floating disk spell in every D&D setting was invented by Tenser– magical techniques transcend planar boundaries, after all.
But still, for some reason, I just can't grok it. Multiplanar D&D is that one step too far that breaks my immersion and reminds me that it's "only a game."
-The Gneech
But still, for some reason, I just can't grok it. Multiplanar D&D is that one step too far that breaks my immersion and reminds me that it's "only a game."
-The Gneech
steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
Niiiice. I'm diggin' what's seen.
DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
I do hope they pull the trigger on this once and for all in D&D5. Historically, not all worlds have the "named" spells or magic items. Dragonlance, in particular, was specific in proscribing them, at least at one time. I'd like to see an acknowledgement that the settings' archmagi did the logical thing and traveled between worlds.
Of course, that said, the spell list could use some entries from recognized folks outside the Circle of Eight.
Oh, man, to hear the sweet sweet rage at Elminster spells becoming core canon. Ce magnifique!
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Boarstorm
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Raistlin's Deicide
9th level Divination* spell
Theoretically allows a 17th level caster to inexplicably defeat an 80th level goddess in an alternate timeline.
*Sure, why not?
Joking aside, I'd love to see some more world-specific magic items and artifacts, too. I guess we are stuck waiting for appropriate adventures and their associated sourcebooks.
DM_
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True, I was merely quoting the DMG preview page. Though more importantly than nitpicking is that these regions are featured within core Forgotten Realms geography.
