WotC WotC needs an Elon Musk

[Chaosmancer]

I haven't mentioned planescape in my last couple of replies, dude, I've been talking about the default assumption in the DMG.

By last couple of replies you mean... 2 or 3? Click the little arrows. It has literally been

"Planescape should pick a lane"
"Why are we talking about Planescape? I'm talking about the DMG"
"Because [Planescape] ties the edition together"
"Why should planescape be that important?"
"I thought you were talking about the DMG?"
"I was, why should the DMG be based in PLanescape"
"I haven't been talking about PLanescape in the last few replies"

So, I don't know why you are so confused. You are the one who started this conversation.

I also never said there were text boxes, jut that they could throw some of them in if they wanted to discuss things.

Eberron and mystara are fine, but the multiverse that is the default in the DMG doesn't use them so it doesn't use them.

So, they still haven't provided the material needed to run alternate cosmologies. Like I said. Also, what is this "multiverse" you speak of? You keep referencing it like it is a known model of the planes. "Ah, the DMG takes place in the Multiverse, that explains why Bytopia is included in the DMG"... no it doesn't? The multiverse doesn't handle planar arrangements at all, it is actually beyond that.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Not quite. A default is what you fall back to if you don't want to choose or can't be bothered to. If there's a "choice of defaults" that's not a default, as it still forces you to choose.

The default can be a choice. A default is not "what you do when you don't want to choose" it is "the standard or baseline"

Not having read everything word for word, I could be wrong; but the impression I get is they're saying (in paraphrase) "Here's the cosmology we're using for this game, and here's some examples of some others you can go look up yourself if you don't like this one." Seems fine from here.

That is not how I would paraphrase what they did. They were more like "You need a comology for your game, and there are many options. Here are the planes of reality."

First and foremost the DMG is and always had been the guide to actually running the game, and has to keep that as its primary element. If you put a proper guide to worldbuilding in there as well it'd get bigger and heavier than most people would want to carry around.

Worldbuilding guide should be its own book.

I don't know what a "proper" guide would be like, but the DMG already covers religions, calendars, wilderness environments , urban environments, governments, planar travel, creating NPCs, creating villains and creating adventure sites.

Seems like a LOT of the stuff I would want in a worldbuilding guide.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

WotC needs a John McAfee?

WotC needs a John McClane.

 

[Remathilis]

WotC needs a John McAfee?

Comparing McAfee to Musk is akin to comparing Victor Freeze to Lex Lutjor; the only difference is financial support.

 

[glass]

Darksun had its own cosmology but it was theoretically possible to reach the the great wheel via dimensional vs planar travel.

Kinda retconned in Planescape material though.

I was talking about 4e Darksun; Planescape would have been hard pressed to ret-con that 2 editions prior. Anyway, I have edited "4e" into my post to make it clear.

 

[Zardnaar]

I was talking about 4e Darksun; Planescape would have been hard pressed to ret-con that 2 editions prior. Anyway, I have edited "4e" into my post to make it clear.

They would have there was no quality control by then. They let freelancers write whatever and threw it out the door hence contradictory themselves in their own setting let alone between settings.

 

[Maxperson]

A default is not "what you do when you don't want to choose"

That's literally what a default is. A default is what happens unless you choose something else. I mean, try running a computer program or phone app sometime. It runs even if you don't make choices. Because it has default settings. If you change them, there will be a button somewhere to reset to default just in case you don't like what you changed and can't remember what the defaults were.

Defaults are in fact "What you do when you don't want to choose."

 

[Zardnaar]

Well always thought Elon Musk was a tool, now he has essentially proved it.

What a Bellend.

 

[cbwjm]

Well always thought Elon Musk was a tool, now he has essentially proved it.

What a Bellend.

I used to think he was alright, if a little bit smug, but went off him completely during the pandemic when he cared more about profits than his worker's health.

 

[Zardnaar]

I used to think he was alright, if a little bit smug, but went off him completely during the pandemic when he cared more about profits than his worker's health.

He's always been a smug git but basically agree.

Corporations are not nice but people seem to enjoy their products.

I find people's responses to Amazon amusing and the hypocrisy.

Where we live Amazons not such a thing due to postage.