D&D 5E Two more Classic Settings to go

[Urriak Uruk]

I mean, it works however a given DM wants it to work. But for official D&D canon, they have chosen a Platonist approach to divine beings, while connecting the different worlds. Eberron characters and elements have even been appearing in official sources and streams, crossing the boundaries. Doesn't mean that has to be true of any given tables Eberron, or Krynn...but that's how WotC is choosing to do the formal canon.

Well, considering how Takhisis has been killed in Dragonlance's timeline, I don't think we can say Tiamat and Takhisis are EXACTLY the same. I find them are different repesentations of the same god, like a prism making different colors out of the same beam of light. But that's me I suppose.

 

[Parmandur]

Well, considering how Takhisis has been killed in Dragonlance's timeline, I don't think we can say Tiamat and Takhisis are EXACTLY the same. I find them are different repesentations of the same god, like a prism making different colors out of the same beam of light. But that's me I suppose.

Well, considering how Takhisis has been killed in Dragonlance's timeline, I don't think we can say Tiamat and Takhisis are EXACTLY the same. I find them are different repesentations of the same god, like a prism making different colors out of the same beam of light. But that's me I suppose.

Perkins has gone over this at a couple point: gods Tiamat/Takhisis cannot be "killed", only inconvenienced.

 

[Tonguez]

Weirdly, that's also the new marketing slogan for Viagra.

Doing it for the Grognards - time for a crossover marketing campaign

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Perkins has gone over this at a couple point: gods Tiamat/Takhisis cannot be "killed", only inconvenienced.

It's pretty clear in Dragonlance that Takhisis is dead, though again I don't think this means that this entirely disproves Tiamat = Takhisis.

 

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I'm still uncertain about Planescape. One reason WotC cancelled it back in the 90s was because they felt planar adventures should be part of core and not spun off into their own setting.

I personally think the biggest problem Planescape had in that way was it kept trying to simultaneously be the line for the multiverse and for the Sigil campaign setting.

A solid division between those as products, with the result that (for example) Sigil's factions are something that almost nobody in Dis or the City of Brass gives a thought to any more than anybody in Buenos Aires or Baghdad really cares about New York City city council races, is all that's really needed. Sigil can think of itself as the center of the multiverse, and even have a halfway-plausible claim as the portal-town to everywhere, without a Manual of the Planes sharing the covers of or being written from the same perspective as a City of Doors Campaign Setting.

 

[Aldarc]

Bahamut does take a human form across the multiverse in 5E...he's even on the Forgotten Realms Set Boosters for Msgic coming soon as a Human Wizard type.

All of that other "evidence " is just Prime berks being confused, same as on Eberron.

I'm not exactly a fan of the idea that the people of Eberron are just "confused" or "idiots." It's a bit condescending in how it treats the setting as having a lesser understanding.

 

[RobJN]

DriveThruRPG just announced that it is hosting a sale on D&D settings. There are three setting products discounted, which are: Planescape, Dark Sun, and Dragonlance. Of course, this may be a mere coincidence (or not... last year the Icewind Dale game was discounted shortly before Rime of the Frostmaiden was a announced), but fuels the speculation. Sadly, I think my Birthright is unlikely to -ever, or for the foreseeable future- make it. Link: DriveThruRPG.com - Seeking a new D&D setting for the next campaign? We have options across all editions!

Also: Birthright, Forgotten Realms, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Mystara, Eberron.....

 

[AmerginLiath]

The Paladine/Bahamut and Takhisis/Tiamat issue strikes me as simply a planar version of the Greeks coming into Egypt after the Alexandrian conquest, seeing Amon-Re, and saying that’s Zeus in a different form. Are the dragon gods separate and merely identified as a familiar form, or are they a connected distinct version (anyone who’s read Proclus’s “Platonic Theology” can discuss the analogy of sublunar Jupiter on Olympus descended from demiurgic Jupiter!)?

 

[AmerginLiath]

The one point of distinction I make with that ScreenRant write up is regarding how “easy” it would be to make a Greyhawk or Dragonlance setting in 5e. Creating material for those settings, in an Unearthed Arcana or monster book would indeed be easy, but if anything those settings are harder to make. Because, as has been asked many times, how does one differentiate them — both for gaming purposes and in marketing. Both Eberron and Ravenloft have been built for 5e very strongly around flavor, as much as tool sets for genres of storytelling as those specific worlds. A Greyhawk or Dragonlance release would surely be built the same way — I always point to how the DMG ascribed fantasy sub-settings to the different worlds as a starting point to how WotC would use them.

 

[NiClerigo]

Also: Birthright, Forgotten Realms, Al-Qadim, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Mystara, Eberron.....

Thanks! The 3 I mentioned are those immediately shown as featured, though. Might mean something or not…