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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 6360123" data-attributes="member: 6688049"><p><strong>The Rock of Bral</strong></p><p></p><p>The Rock of Bral is to Spelljammer as Sigil is to Planescape. A fitting inclusion in the <em>Atlas of D&D Worlds</em>.</p><p>[ATTACH]63499[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial narrow'"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">There's some controversy as to which solar system the Rock is located in. (See the <a href="http://www.spelljammer.org/worlds/articles/SphereGuide/Guide%20to%20the%20Spheres.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Guide to the Spheres</em> PDF </a>for an explanation.) The solution offered by Paul Westermeyer in the Guide is elegant: the "Rock of Bral" in Realmspace is really Dragon Rock, while the Rock of Bral (and its canonically associated planets) exists in a crystal sphere of its own: Bralspace. (It also exists in Hackspace, but I'm not getting into that because, AFAIK WotC doesn't hold the rights to Aldrazar even though that world was made through a license with WotC.)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial narrow'"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial narrow'"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">However, another solution is to say that the Rock of Bral exists in both Realmspace and in Bralspace! This is the thinking:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial narrow'"></span></span></p><p>Canonically, several D&D sites already exist in multiple D&D Worlds, for example:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Keep on the Borderlands exists in Greyhawk, Mystara, and Nerath. (And Aldrazar)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Caverns of Quasqueton exists in Greyhawk and Mystara. (And Aldrazar)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Desert of Desolation exists in Toril and Nerath, and also has a suggested placement in Mystara.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Sunless Citadel exists in Greyhawk (somewhere) and in Nerath.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Isle of Dread exists in Mystara, Greyhawk, and Nerath.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And several of the later "generic" 2E-era adventures gave suggested placements in several worlds. (<em>Night Below, Axe of the Dwarvish Lords, Apocalypse Stone</em>)</li> </ul><p></p><p>Yes, that means that if a PC traveled through the planes or by spelljammer from one world to the next, and went to those locales, they would experience some major deja vu, and would meet NPCs who had the same name and personality as ones in their own world. That's the way the D&D worlds are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 6360123, member: 6688049"] [b]The Rock of Bral[/b] The Rock of Bral is to Spelljammer as Sigil is to Planescape. A fitting inclusion in the [I]Atlas of D&D Worlds[/I]. [ATTACH=CONFIG]63499._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial narrow][FONT=arial]There's some controversy as to which solar system the Rock is located in. (See the [URL="http://www.spelljammer.org/worlds/articles/SphereGuide/Guide%20to%20the%20Spheres.pdf"][I]Guide to the Spheres[/I] PDF [/URL]for an explanation.) The solution offered by Paul Westermeyer in the Guide is elegant: the "Rock of Bral" in Realmspace is really Dragon Rock, while the Rock of Bral (and its canonically associated planets) exists in a crystal sphere of its own: Bralspace. (It also exists in Hackspace, but I'm not getting into that because, AFAIK WotC doesn't hold the rights to Aldrazar even though that world was made through a license with WotC.) However, another solution is to say that the Rock of Bral exists in both Realmspace and in Bralspace! This is the thinking:[/FONT] [/FONT][/SIZE] Canonically, several D&D sites already exist in multiple D&D Worlds, for example: [LIST] [*]The Keep on the Borderlands exists in Greyhawk, Mystara, and Nerath. (And Aldrazar) [*]The Caverns of Quasqueton exists in Greyhawk and Mystara. (And Aldrazar) [*]The Desert of Desolation exists in Toril and Nerath, and also has a suggested placement in Mystara. [*]The Sunless Citadel exists in Greyhawk (somewhere) and in Nerath. [*]The Isle of Dread exists in Mystara, Greyhawk, and Nerath. [*]And several of the later "generic" 2E-era adventures gave suggested placements in several worlds. ([I]Night Below, Axe of the Dwarvish Lords, Apocalypse Stone[/I]) [/LIST] Yes, that means that if a PC traveled through the planes or by spelljammer from one world to the next, and went to those locales, they would experience some major deja vu, and would meet NPCs who had the same name and personality as ones in their own world. That's the way the D&D worlds are. [/QUOTE]
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