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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 8614477" data-attributes="member: 6686357"><p>So the writers should just port in the astral rather than go to the work of making the phlogiston (or deep ethereal or whatever) more interesting? </p><p></p><p>My issue with this is that the astral plane has different planar properties to the inner planes. For example, the timelessness. Has that been retconned too?</p><p></p><p>Actually, now that I think about it, replacing phlogiston with the astral plane (as opposed to the deep ethereal, which is still an inner plane) fundamentally changes the nature of the prime material plane (or whatever it's called in the latest edition). Now the prime isn't a single contiguous plane, but a bunch of wildspace spheres floating disconnected within the astral plane. D&D's cosmology retcons gave me a headache before, but this is ridiculous. What is even the difference between a wildspace sphere and an outer plane now? Without a larger cosmological distinction, it now feels utterly arbitrary.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Getting rid of an entire continent in the demiplane of dread sounds like making a completely different setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 8614477, member: 6686357"] So the writers should just port in the astral rather than go to the work of making the phlogiston (or deep ethereal or whatever) more interesting? My issue with this is that the astral plane has different planar properties to the inner planes. For example, the timelessness. Has that been retconned too? Actually, now that I think about it, replacing phlogiston with the astral plane (as opposed to the deep ethereal, which is still an inner plane) fundamentally changes the nature of the prime material plane (or whatever it's called in the latest edition). Now the prime isn't a single contiguous plane, but a bunch of wildspace spheres floating disconnected within the astral plane. D&D's cosmology retcons gave me a headache before, but this is ridiculous. What is even the difference between a wildspace sphere and an outer plane now? Without a larger cosmological distinction, it now feels utterly arbitrary. Getting rid of an entire continent in the demiplane of dread sounds like making a completely different setting. [/QUOTE]
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