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The difference between it being your own home game versus the internal coherence and continuity of published canon. If you're getting paid to write it, the latter is vital IMO, regardless of what combination of making sure your writers are well educated on the material or employing a paid...

That's not quite so much a Planescape thing universally as it is a yugoloth thing. While other planes and planar races have ancient primordial backstory, it's not secret so much as just poorly known (predating mortal life will tend to make your origins obscure). The 'loths on the other hand were...

Well it wasn't impossible. Off the top of my head I'd point you to the article on the 'Plane of Radiance' in Dragon 321, which was a novel, variant plane that wasn't part of the Great Wheel (despite the similar name, it was different enough in concept from the Quasielemental Plane of Radiance')...

Citation needed for me stating that please. My own 3.x work for Paizo heavily references prior source material mind you. I find that being aware of prior references and taking continuity as a goal is part of being professional when you're getting paid. This goes for how I approach things for...

I adore the randomness and wild variety inherent in 2e/3e tieflings, but I really have a hard time viewing the 4e tiefling as remotely the same creature (and by extension the 5e tiefling as well). I look at the 4e/5e tiefling and I get a very 'Ceci n'est pas une tiefling' vibe at the very best...

Humanoids and PC races are invariably going to have aspects that players can associate with and understand, and especially when they're assumed to be options to play as PCs that's important. As such, having common human sex characteristics makes it easy for most players to associate with them...

Without wanting to get drawn into this, I disagree that the changes 4e imposed on many classic elements of D&D, including the planes and creatures therein, can't reasonably be called "minor details" given the scope of it all and how it was impressed onto the various settings. No Blood War in...

The in-character quote from the Marauder in the yugoloth section. ;)

I can get behind this statement

That was only a compact between 'loths and powerful hag cabals where the 'loth would gain power and a unique form (at the hags' expense iirc) in exchange for a period of service. But not even all unique 'loths were formed in that way. That actually was a big subplot of my story hour. But it's a...

We're very much on the same page. I think most of the time we're probably on the same page to be honest, with the exception of a few particular situations (and honestly I'd be totally cool with returning Anthraxus to the top of Khin-Oin, provided that it be given a solid treatment rather than...

Somebody really, really, really likes Asmodeus I think. It rather radically rewrites 'loth origins, without any mention of their mythology from 2e and 3e. It doesn't completely preclude adding in the baernaloths and the Heart of Darkness mythology later on, but it would be awkward. I'm...

Dana Knutson. Have to have them in the mix.

I'm a giant fan of Sigil, and I wrote 'The Great Beyond' so I might be able to help. But... Sigil is WotC IP so it was never something that could be used as an official part of Pathfinder's cosmology. That being said, the city of Kaer Maga in Pathfinder takes some inspiration from Sigil (though...

Feel above all else really IMO. While I did place a vote for 'designed for a particular edition' let me clarify that I don't mean what rules end up being used. I mean what edition(s')'s cosmology is used. Great Wheel with a classic 2e Multiverse setup rather than a more restricted 3e setup and...

That would be totally awesome. No, I don't have any insight here. But I still it would be an awesome idea.

Yep, I did. It first showed up on the map of the Maelstrom (but no other details) in 'The Great Beyond', and subsequently was briefly referenced in 'Classic Treasures Revisited', 'Book of the Damned III', and as a portal location through the cauldron in Baga Yaga's hut in 'Artifacts and Legends'.