Planescape Planescape IS D&D Says Jeremy Crawford

Planescape is Jeremy Crawford's favourite D&D setting. "It is D&D", he says, as he talks about how in the 2024 core rulebook updates Planescape will be more up front and center as "the setting of settings".

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[MonsterEnvy]

Not if you don't want a non-Great Wheel cosmology, like Eberron or Dark Sun.

Dark Sun was in the Great Wheel. It was just hard to get to and out from in universe.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Dark Sun was in the Great Wheel. It was just hard to get to and out from in universe.

That's true. All the 2e settings were part of the same, glorious cosmology.

 

[Alzrius]

Um, how about no? I don't need someone else saying "this has to be the way it's going to be." If I want to chuck FR, Ravenloft, Planescape or Dark Sun out the window in favor of the cosmology of my homebrew, that's the way it used to be and how it should be.

Which reminds me, the Amberos wiki site seems to be down.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

That is not the meaning in the post I was responding to. Why are you trying to redefine terms?

Cause they are the same thing. Implied is the default.

D&D should have it's various D&D details, like Colored Dragons, the Outer Planes, godly pantheons, gelatinous cubes, etc in it's core books. Those are the default. Any setting that goes in a different direction spells what is different out. But to remove those things from the core heavily changes D&D.

 

[Stormonu]

Which reminds me, the Amberos wiki site seems to be down.

That caught me off-guard. I think/thought it's been down for a few years now.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Planescape IS D&D and is a setup for the 2024 rule books.

I’ve been telling people this is the case since like 2015.

Hell the reason I didn’t think we would get a Planescape setting book was that the core books are Planescape. Everything in 5e takes place in the Planescape multiverse, not a multiverse in which Planescape is one setting of many.

 

[Jer]

Planescape IS D&D

Planescape is D&D but D&D is not necessarily Planescape

He's pitching the Planescape set as being applicable to anyone who plays D&D, really talking up about how all of the elements of the boxed set are things that folks could potentially use in their own home campaigns regardless of whether it's home brew or a Wizards setting.

 

[Parmandur]

So Planescape is the new Core Setting, instead of FR? Does that mean FR can has a proper setting book like Eberron and Exandria?

I do wish Jeremy had given more concrete examples of what he meant about Planescape in the core books.

Can we expect a manual of the Planes?

Will the 2024 MM have the rest of the Guardinals and Archons?
And other Fiends, Celestials, Elementals, and Fey?

Well, we know that the DMG has a Lore Glossary that includes stuff like a Who's Who of D&D multiverse characters. This suggests a Planeacape-esque framework on the face of it. Of course, the 2014 PHB and D.G also had an explicit Planescape framework, more than FR specifically.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Planescape is D&D but D&D is not necessarily Planescape

He's pitching the Planescape set as being applicable to anyone who plays D&D, really talking up about how all of the elements of the boxed set are things that folks could potentially use in their own home campaigns regardless of whether it's home brew or a Wizards setting.

What elements? Other than the monsters, there doesn't appear to be much of anything in the way of mechanical stuff in the whole.product.

 

[Parmandur]

I’ve been telling people this is the case since like 2015.

Hell the reason I didn’t think we would get a Planescape setting book was that the core books are Planescape. Everything in 5e takes place in the Planescape multiverse, not a multiverse in which Planescape is one setting of many.

I agree that is a big part of why it took 9 years to come: the MM and DMG provided a lot of material for Planescape already, and people have been using it.