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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[Remathilis]

Set in the multiverse = set everywhere. That's so broad that setting becomes meaningless, since setting is more specific than that.

I know when I order from Amazon, I put my mailing address as Earth. Since it's all the same planet, getting more specific than that is meaningless.

 

[Maxperson]

I know when I order from Amazon, I put my mailing address as Earth. Since it's all the same planet, getting more specific than that is meaningless.

You are actually making my point. You don't put Earth. You don't put the universe. You don't put the multiverse. You put something more specific. The Forgotten Realms is called a setting, but even then it's overly broad for most individual campaigns which are set in more specific areas of the Realms.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't agree. The D&D multiverse is still a particular setting. It isn't the MCU multiverse or the Star Wars multiverse. It is its own setting, albeit a very broad one.

A multiverse includes everything that can possibly be imagined. Therefore, the MCU multiverse and the Star Wars multiverse exist within the D&D multiverse, and visa versa.

 

[Maxperson]

A multiverse includes everything that can possibly be imagined. Therefore, the MCU multiverse and the Star Wars multiverse exist within the D&D multiverse, and visa versa.

Which is why it fails as a specific setting.

 

[Echohawk]

A multiverse includes everything that can possibly be imagined. Therefore, the MCU multiverse and the Star Wars multiverse exist within the D&D multiverse, and visa versa.

I'm not sold on that. Must any given multiverse contain every imaginable universe? Isn't it still a multiverse if it merely contains an infinite number of universes? Infinite sets can be different in size, so I think it is reasonable to think that there can be different multiverses, each containing its own distinct yet infinite set of universes.

 

[mamba]

I'm not sold on that. Must any given multiverse contain every imaginable universe? Isn't it still a multiverse if it merely contains an infinite number of universes?

given that there is an infinite number, how does it not automatically contain every imaginable one (and then some)…

 

[Echohawk]

given that there is an infinite number, how does it not automatically contain every imaginable one (and then some)…

Mathematically, an infinite set of things does not automatically contain everything in another infinite set of things. Click on the link in my previous post for an article on this topic.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

given that there is an infinite number, how does it not automatically contain every imaginable one (and then some)…

Same way the infinite set of Integers is smaller than the equally infinite set of Real numbers.

Something can be infinite and still not contain everything that it conceivably could contain.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

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

This was actually helpful. Thanks!

 

[Incenjucar]

The multiverse being accessible is what makes it a meaningful part of the setting. Thus why Sigil is the centerpiece.