D&D General The Brilliance of the Original Gygaxian Multiverse

[Snarf Zagyg]

So why? Why do you want it?

Why do you want to keep trying to climb Mount Everest?

Because it's there.


It's a little less snappy when you recall he died there.

 

[Todd Roybark]

The following tweet of Jeremey Crawford troubles me:

The different worlds of the Material Plane are, indeed, on the same plane of existence. Teleportation is possible between the worlds, but the DM decides whether such travel is reliable/safe and whether sigil sequences are available for teleportation circles. #DnD https://twitter.com/ivstinus/status

The Official answer to the question: Are campaigns world all part of the same Material Plane or are Separate Planes? Should be simply saying, Yes!
The official answer should be, use whatever cosmology you like.

Perhaps, my campaign world takes place on the back of an enormous tortoise.
The statement in the tweet, doesn’t even consider campaigns set in tropes that do not conform to planetary mechanics.

How far is it to Teleport from Waterdeep to the back of the enormous tortoise that is someone’s campaign world?

I also don’t like the answer because he didn’t have D&D DM’s back.
You know some DM got Papa Smurfed, by some player:
“Jeremey Crawford SAID I could teleport from Sharn to Waterdeep on Twitter”.

Not Cool Man, not Cool at all.

You can not, just Teleport to Krynn. When Raistlin, Mord, and Elminster met in old Dragon Magazine, it was not assumed they teleported to the location...it was plane shifting.

 

[atanakar]

You can not, just Teleport to Krynn. When Raistlin, Mord, and Elminster met in old Dragon Magazine, it was not assumed they teleported to the location...it was plane shifting.

Did you just say that they plane shifted to the Dragon Magazine Headquartes for a get together and interview by the staff? That is cool.

 

[Rikka66]

Did you just say that they teleported to the Dragon Magazine Headquartes for a get together and interview by the staff? That is cool.

I believe it was Ed Greenwood's kitchen.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I believe it was Ed Greenwood's kitchen.

As someone who defends alternate realms and was even about to do a little section regarding the meta-framing of the 80s D&D Cartoon ...


Man, the "Elminster is on my kitchen" conceit always bugged me! No one is perfectly consistent.

 

[Bupp]

In a parallel universe Hasbro and Matell verged and now He-Man and the Master of the Universe are a D&D world.

I want to go to this universe. Let me cast plane shift on my teleporting Spelljammer.

Perhaps, my campaign world takes place on the back of an enormous tortoise.

Turtles all the way down.

 

[Hoffmand]

Alright @LuisCarlos17f , I'll bite. Why exactly are you so set on crossovers of D&D with other properties? You don't seem to care what the crossovers actually are, or even what properties they're with, as long as they exist.

Why do you care so much? Why on earth do you need D&D Transformers so badly, or Zelda or FF or whatever?

I ask because although on paper some of these ideas aren't bad (an official Hyrule D&D box set isn't the worst idea), you seem to really want something completely nutty as all of these properties jumping from one to anther, for no reason at all other than you want it.

So why? Why do you want it?

I want Zelda crossovers bad, and others. But I don’t need know stamp of approval I will do it myself. Same for all the crossovers I do. Is there some millennial mind set that I need permission. Is there a d&d regulation board that will remove my license or certification to write adventures and run games.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

The following tweet of Jeremey Crawford troubles me:

The different worlds of the Material Plane are, indeed, on the same plane of existence. Teleportation is possible between the worlds, but the DM decides whether such travel is reliable/safe and whether sigil sequences are available for teleportation circles. #DnD https://twitter.com/ivstinus/status

The Official answer to the question: Are campaigns world all part of the same Material Plane or are Separate Planes? Should be simply saying, Yes!
The official answer should be, use whatever cosmology you like.

Perhaps, my campaign world takes place on the back of an enormous tortoise.
The statement in the tweet, doesn’t even consider campaigns set in tropes that do not conform to planetary mechanics.

How far is it to Teleport from Waterdeep to the back of the enormous tortoise that is someone’s campaign world?

I also don’t like the answer because he didn’t have D&D DM’s back.
You know some DM got Papa Smurfed, by some player:
“Jeremey Crawford SAID I could teleport from Sharn to Waterdeep on Twitter”.

Not Cool Man, not Cool at all.

You can not, just Teleport to Krynn. When Raistlin, Mord, and Elminster met in old Dragon Magazine, it was not assumed they teleported to the location...it was plane shifting.

I've run the Material Plane as including all of the worlds ever since 2e, and it kept doing it in 3e, and am glad that 5e is back to it.

That being said, I don't particularly like teleportation magic as a simple way to get from world to world. I feel like you should either need to use Spelljamming or planar travel to get between them, not bypass it with a 5th level spell. The way I've looked it since 3e is to treat each crystal sphere as more or less equivalent to a planar layer (which generally interact as if they were planes). That means you need a plane shift rather than a teleportation circle to get there.

When they come out with more details on Spelljamming, maybe they'll do the same thing and make them planar layers. I mean, it always seemed like the obvious solution, given that planar layers are an established thing and have results that pretty much solve all of the issues.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I think the crossovers are the best way to promote D&D. But I also worry because some crossovers could break the right tone. For example Darkstalkers is a Capcom beat'em videogame with monsters. Theses characters aren't right for Ravenloft because they aren't enough grimmdark.

 

[Stormonu]

Says who? Space is infinite. We could have several different universes all expanding in different directions in our reality. Different planes are not required for different universes.


This is from 2018

Jeremy Crawford
@JeremyECrawford

The different worlds of the Material Plane are, indeed, on the same plane of existence. Teleportation is possible between the worlds, but the DM decides whether such travel is reliable/safe and whether sigil sequences are available for teleportation circles. #DnD

Hmm. Not something I would allow, no matter who said it.