Scribe
Legend
Thats what I'm saying, and its what I dont like...
D&D 5E Multiverse Theory and you
Paul Farquhar
Legend
High level characters? Just end the game at level 10.
Scribe
Legend
/shrug
A high level party on Athas should be wildly different in perspective, in comparison to a high level party from Sigil, in comparison to a high level party from Toril, in comparison to a high level party from Eberron.
Because I believe settings, and setting tone, should matter.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Err... so high level characters that originate from different worlds are different? I don't see the problem.
Scribe
Legend
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Then they are foreigners, with their own culture. Culture-clash is the main fun in doing it.
Scribe
Legend
dave2008
Legend
First, thank you for the reply.
For example, my personal cosmology I use the all settings approach. It is not really the great wheel, but similar enough. The various settings (including MTG) are generally separate from each other, but they do existing in same "multiverse." So while it is theoretically possible to go from Theros to Athas, is practically impossible (even for gods). Similar situation with Eberron. So I could make / allow such travel to happen as the DM happen if I want, that is not something the PCs can even contemplate. They don't know anything about worlds they can reach, let alone ones that they can't! I just don't see what this removes from world building.
Ok, but there is no need to suppose that. It could easily be extremely rare or even a unique occurrence. Why jump to "many' visitors? It seems you are assuming it would be easy. It need not be.
I don't know what this means.
I guess I just don't see how the possibility that something could happen, needs to have much effect on world building. I am perfectly happy to have two very different worlds (Athas and Eberron) that have little to no connection to one another. I mean this is the reality of life in our solar system, galaxy, and universe. They billions of worlds that are just doing their own thing with no real influence from each other. It works in reality, why not in fantasy?
For example, my personal cosmology I use the all settings approach. It is not really the great wheel, but similar enough. The various settings (including MTG) are generally separate from each other, but they do existing in same "multiverse." So while it is theoretically possible to go from Theros to Athas, is practically impossible (even for gods). Similar situation with Eberron. So I could make / allow such travel to happen as the DM happen if I want, that is not something the PCs can even contemplate. They don't know anything about worlds they can reach, let alone ones that they can't! I just don't see what this removes from world building.
Scribe
Legend
I dont really care to continue this, but bringing up MTG is a great example of how I hate it.
In MTG, you used to go to all these different worlds, same multiverse, and see them. Fine.
Then, Wizards decided they needed a few 'faces for the game', and they leaned into the Lorwyn 5, the eventual Gatewatch or "Jacetice League" as it was sometimes referred to.
I hate it, and it will never change.
So thats fine, you all can have your view, and it can be as rare or as common as you like, but I hate it, and always will.
Oofta
Legend
I was thinking about this, and I have had PCs come from different realities. In one case my wife wanted to play a PC that was from earth. In another I had to introduce a new player to the game so I said that they were walking along one day and stumbled across a henge and the next thing they knew they were falling from a great height directly into the path of an adventuring company. Probably not my greatest introduction of a PC ever, in my defense this was long, long ago.
On the other hand I don't see hopping between planes or realms of existence in the same reality the same as a multiverse. The PCs in my current campaign have travelled to the shadowfell, but never to an alternate reality.
On the other hand I don't see hopping between planes or realms of existence in the same reality the same as a multiverse. The PCs in my current campaign have travelled to the shadowfell, but never to an alternate reality.
