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So... you think the claim and methods behind it are suspect but even after someone pointed you to the source, you're not interested and want someone else to figure it out for you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess that might have to stay one of life's mysteries for ya then! Sometimes if you want to know...

It's interesting that it offers a lot more flexibility. Considering that I gravitate towards complex/hybrid character concepts, this might be really nice and I'm eager to see the full rules. That being said, it's also amusing to me that one of the reasons I got tired of PF1 is that there were...

Or, alternatively, capitalism works to some extent and the best products might tend to have the best sales. Or, the products with the highest budgets and best chance at high sales will tend to have the most effort put into them to make them better than other products. Or.... etc. There's...

It seems that a player "cheating" to directly benefit their own PC and a DM "cheating" to increase the fun for the whole group are so different that they seem to me that they shouldn't even fall under the same label. Just because a player's cheating to benefit their own PC might indirectly...

(Snipped because there’s no point in arguing to prove what’s already clearly printed in the books) So in other news, a Magic setting would be interesting to me for the novelty of it especially since I know little about it. And as for unhappy fans, no matter what is released, there will be a lot...

I stand corrected. :) I was remembering how much it permeated and redefinied a lot of the monsters as well, but 4e is certainly a weaker area for me. Thanks for the correction!

What?!! Put the 1e Manual of the Planes next to the Planescape campaign boxed set and they are indistinguishable? Seriously?So tone, flavor, theme, etc. has nothing to do with a setting? I don’t agree with everything Kobold Avenger says, but this is exactly like saying every game that happens on...

I am 90+% sure it will be PDF products like the Planeshift stuff with possibly a print on demand option. Every comment by Stewart has specifically avoided calling the “surprises” anything like ‘books’ or ‘hardcovers’, plus he has been saying there will be some exciting new things with DMs Guild...

Not that this is relevant to the original topic, or if anyone is concerned, but (although I never got to play it much, so I could be wrong) but I always thought 4e was a great fit for Dark Sun even before they published it. But I also have no problem with a setting that expands upon or breaks...

Yes, but the Tommy Westphall Theory supporters don't usually go around telling everyone that if you think Cheers is a real TV show you are absolutely wrong, and that "no one gets to decide whether or not any [TV shows] are connected to each other" and "no amount of denial on your part can make...

Um... because it's all make believe? Look, I'm a big fan of Planescape, Spelljammer, and linking settings, and you've lost me. Or maybe you are onto something... maybe none of this is real and we are all just inside Tommy Westphall's head! :)

Yes and no. If you are playing a Planescape campaign - absolutely they are connected. Very remotely and with difficulty, but still definitely connected. My first bit of fan fiction when I was young had the main villain be a Dark Sun sorcerer-king living in Sigil. In fact, I could see a...

I'm still failing to see where anything is being imposed. I tried to be pretty clear that it's my theory that I use in my campaigns. When someone plays Eberron, if they don't want Sigil or any of the Great Wheel to exist, they just snap their fingers Thanos-style and they are gone! Nothing...

Originally that was because Gary Gygax only invented one cosmology and didn't think you needed more. It had nothing to do with Planescape. Planescape actually started the shift away from that and was more about a theme that was equal parts "Everyone is right!" and "No one really knows!" The...

Just for sake of accuracy, I'm pretty sure the World Tree Cosmology was introduced in 3e. Prior to that it was assumed the Great Wheel was the only cosmology. (So all campaign settings are really Planescape! :) Ha! There is no Forgotten Realms - only Planescape, berk!) Of course, many of us just...

He was clearly talking about Al Qadim, not Xanathar’s.

So if you change all of the Planes to no longer be Planes, and add things to the Forgotten Realms that were not parts of the Forgotten Realms, then... they are the same setting? Uh... I guess? But what’s the point? I can take apart a car and a boat, then build them into something new, but that...

Flavor and story are major things missing. That’s like asking what is missing from Strahd and Ravenloft that isn’t already in the vampire write up in the 5e MM? I mean, castles are a dime a dozen, why do we need a special one for Ravenloft? Obviously, this is absurd, but it’s just as absurd...

Jer answers it very well on why a new setting might not be coming any time soon. With that being said, as well as the fact that there are several settings I would really really love new material for, I would also really love to see a new setting. Not because I know there's some niche that isn't...

As someone who LOVES Planescape and although having never played Spelljammer is fascinated by it, this sums it up quite well. Plus "grounded, mud and blood Game-of-Thronesism" sounds utterly unappealing to me, personally. Of course, I was the weird kid growing up who was far more likely to play...