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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[Maxperson]

Planescape hadan annoyingly condescending attitude to certain settings is this going to be carried over (wait, it already has).

What would a prime know?

 

[Muso]

If Planescape is D&D, why waiting soooooo long to publish it. So much time wasted with other useless settings like ravinca.

 

[CapnZapp]

5E Dragonlance did implicitly exclude halflings, tieflings, and dragonborn, FWIW. Though they also provided guidance for including "individual members - or even small enclaves" of those species in Krynn, and never explicitly said they weren't part of the setting (just, again, implied).

To be blunt: WotC is infused with marketeers, not story tellers.

Story tellers know worlds become more interesting if there are limits; things that aren't there.

Marketeers just want to sell you stuff, and see no point in voluntarily not selling you more stuff.

The real problem is that there's too many people that cannot handle being denied something. Instead of seeing the point in having a focused setting and gracefully choosing another class or race or whatever, they will take it as a personal insult and call themselves either discriminated against or canceled (their choice of words depending on their political leanings).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I see no such thing as the right to speak your opinions unopposed.

This. I have noticed that proponents of "unbridled free speech" really, really hate it when their opinions are challenged.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Sigil rhymes with wiggle?!?! Seriously?

Sigil rhymes with Giff.

 

[Charlaquin]

To be blunt: WotC is infused with marketeers, not story tellers.

Story tellers know worlds become more interesting if there are limits; things that aren't there.

Marketeers just want to sell you stuff, and see no point in voluntarily not selling you more stuff.

The real problem is that there's too many people that cannot handle being denied something. Instead of seeing the point in having a focused setting and gracefully choosing another class or race or whatever, they will take it as a personal insult and call themselves either discriminated against or canceled (their choice of words depending on their political leanings).

I’ve seen plenty of people complain when a character option is unavailable to them in a certain setting. Never in my life have I seen those complaints take the form of claiming they’re being discriminated against or cancelled, and I am confident that anyone making such a claim would quickly end up on one of the many “D&D Horror Stories” lists out there.

 

[Older Beholder]

The integration of Planescape into the base of 5E was one of the things I first loved about the edition.

 

[teitan]

That is not my understanding.

Etymology, it is latin, G is hard in Latin, it is never pronounced as a J sound. Comes from Sigillum, a sign or seal. Also Signature.

Etymology of "sigil" by etymonline

"a sign, mark, or seal," mid-15c., sigille, from Late Latin sigillum, from Latin sigilla… See origin and meaning of sigil.

www.etymonline.com

 

[Plageman]

Implied is Default. I have the exact same opinion as Zaukrie.

Errr... So you played only Greyhawk during 3.x because it was the "default" setting of DnD ? Or only Nentir Vale during 4e era ?I guess not. AD&D 2e didn't have a default setting baked into the CRBs, classes were written as neutral as they could be regarding settings and it never was a problem. Yeah mixing setting and rules is quite common (Warhammer, Runequest, Pathfinder do it well) but it never was a mandator thing for DnD as far as I'm concerned. A list o deities in an appendix is good, a subclass for a cleric of Kelemvor or Pelor not so much.

 

[teitan]

The integration of Planescape into the base of 5E was one of the things I first loved about the edition.

Right? It's like a return of 1e and 2e presumptions and people act like its some massive change. No the change was eliminating Planescape after harvesting it for lore in 3.x and 4e.