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I actually think the cosmology needs to rebuilt from the ground up with actual planning in mind. The ad hoc design just leads to nonsensical results. The astral has always been the transitive plane used to travel between the material plane and the outer planes. If you use it for interstellar...

I don’t know what edition you play, but for my group the astral plane has always been the method used to travel to/from/across the outer planes using astral barges. I assumed that the change meant the astral barge rules were subsumed into spelljammers and now there was regular trade between the...

My first problem with the great wheel cosmology is that the planes were added for the sake of OCD rather than as places you could actually adventure in. The transitive and inner planes get the worst of it. (Especially the paraplanes and quasiplanes, which got silly fast.) The only time the...

The cosmology wasn’t fixed in place. They recapped the various cosmologies that were default for some edition or prominent suggestions. The great wheel is treated as the implicit cosmology in 5e, but since WotC doesn’t write planar adventures it’s purely academic at this point. Making a...

I can imagined that it would be shortened considerably, but I don't think they'd outright change much since the cosmology is already spelled out in DMG. It's identical to 2e except for the addition of the feywild and shadowfell (which are just the negative and positive planes reflavored anyway)...

While I agree with replacing phlogiston with the astral, this change has ramifications for the rest of the cosmology. Previous editions assumed the material plane was a contiguous plane but now it's a series of unconnected spheres floating within the astral. Why is it even considered its own...

Sorry for the late reply. According to this site, Gygax more or less invented the idea of dragons with color-coded breath weapons. While separately dragons made of ice, dragons that breathe freezing cold, dragons that live in arctic conditions, and dragons with white scales have examples from...

I know. I loved playing Starcraft as a kid. When I looked back at the writing as an adult… well, it’s terrible. First draft written by a complete newb terrible. It is chock full of plot holes, inconsistent/incoherent scaling, internal contradictions, etc. It is completely unsalvageable and...

Great idea. I’m done investing in these lost causes. From now on, I’m only ever investing in things I made myself. I simply can’t trust anyone else to preserve art for posterity unless they release it under creative commons. I’ve been working on my own scifi setting since 2018 due to my intense...

I’m sorry. I’m very exasperated. As a matter of fact, I have gone to the effort of contacting publishers and it has been… well, I wouldn’t be complaining if I had been successful, now would I? I have contacted Precis Intermedia regarding Necroscope, Bad Axe Games regarding Grim Tales...

I feel like absolute naughty word now because of all the insults and apathy I've just been subjected to.

I despise them for all the products that they took down during their hissy fit over piracy and all the products they threatened publishers to take down after the d20 license expired and the GSL took effect. Have you never gotten annoyed with corpos abandoning things you enjoy? A lot of...

They can put the PDFs back on drivethrurpg at no cost to themselves, like they did before their 2008 hissy fit. And they can also tell all those people who took down their d20 PDFs due to fear of being sued that they can put their PDFs back up again. Whoever was in charge in 2008 was awful and...

In case I can't make it any more obvious, this is where I stand: You know what I want WotC to do? Support their old products again, or give up their copyright claim so that fans can maintain it and do new things with it. That's it. My antipathy towards them is entirely conditional. You know...

Look, I despise nuTSR as much as any sane person would. They're horrible people and they're soiling the trademark. I can't say anymore about what I think of them without violating the forum rules against saying nasty things about people. But I despise WotC. I have despised them ever since their...

I know the difference. Copyright lasts for a fixed period after the creation/publication of a work and/or the death of the author. Trademark has to be actively used or it will lapse. They no longer work as intended because of Disney lobbying the government to extend copyright terms to the point...

Racism and deceptive marketing aside, NuTSR is well within their rights to snatch up trademarks that WotC let lapse. The Star Frontiers and TSR trademarks have long since expired because WotC let them languish. WotC doesn't have any right to claim them now, and putting up low quality scans on...

I also forgot GURPS. There's Blood Types, Shapeshifters, several books on magic systems... Good stuff! Btw, I'm currently working on my own treatments for urban fantasy settings. I have one on "romanticized vampires" that's basically a grab bag: there's undead vampires, living vampires...

Urban Shadows doesn’t really have a setting. It has a bunch of playbooks, but not much in the way of setting books. Night Shift has four separate campaign settings in the core rulebook. They’re basically kitchen sink urban fantasy setting #1, kitchen sink setting #2 (not sure why there are two...

It’s one of several games I’ve looked at. It looks interesting. As with most of the games I’ve checked out, it only has a single campaign setting. E.g. the vampire are soulless in the Buffy fashion (aside from “dhampirs” that emulate Angel/Blade/Sonja Blue, thus suitable as PCs), the werewolves...