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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8614495" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>I mean . . . yeah. The Phlo really didn't have much going on originally. Changing it to be interesting would basically require changing the whole thing. Just using 4e's the Astral Sea (which quite a few people liked) is much simpler than adding another transitive plane to 5e's cosmology and requires less work than changing the Phlo into something actually interesting to adventure in. </p><p></p><p>The timelessness is staying, from what we've seen in the UA. </p><p></p><p>The Phlo was always basically just another plane of existence. It shared basically no similarities with the space inside of Crystal Spheres, so it was functionally a different plane of existence from Wildspace even if it wasn't listed as one. There were always a bunch of wildspace spheres floating disconnected within the Phlogiston. Changing that to a different plane of existence really doesn't change that, even if it is explicitly a different plane of existence. </p><p></p><p>It was always arbitrary. Why are the Feywild and Shadowfell Inner Planes instead of Outer Planes? Why is the Ethereal an Inner Plane if you can go ethereal in the Outer Planes? What makes the Outer Planes more "outer" than the Elemental Planes other than being connected to an alignment? Why isn't the Ethereal Plane called the Astral Plane when the concept of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection" target="_blank">Astral Projection</a>" is better represented by D&D's Ethereal Plane? Why did the Phlogiston count as part of the Material Plane when it basically functioned as an entire other plane of existence? Why Hades the True Neutral Evil plane of existence and not Gehenna, the homeland of the True Neutral Evil fiends? </p><p></p><p>D&D's cosmology has never been logical. Replacing the Phlo with the Astral doesn't make it any more nonsensical. </p><p></p><p>They didn't "get rid of a continent." They got rid of the physical unification of the domains of dread. Most of main domains that made up the continent are still there. They're just not connected physically and are instead split up as island pocket dimensions in the Mists. The mini-settings you can go to are more or less the same and the base concept of the setting is the same. Ravenloft is still Ravenloft without the Core.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8614495, member: 7023887"] I mean . . . yeah. The Phlo really didn't have much going on originally. Changing it to be interesting would basically require changing the whole thing. Just using 4e's the Astral Sea (which quite a few people liked) is much simpler than adding another transitive plane to 5e's cosmology and requires less work than changing the Phlo into something actually interesting to adventure in. The timelessness is staying, from what we've seen in the UA. The Phlo was always basically just another plane of existence. It shared basically no similarities with the space inside of Crystal Spheres, so it was functionally a different plane of existence from Wildspace even if it wasn't listed as one. There were always a bunch of wildspace spheres floating disconnected within the Phlogiston. Changing that to a different plane of existence really doesn't change that, even if it is explicitly a different plane of existence. It was always arbitrary. Why are the Feywild and Shadowfell Inner Planes instead of Outer Planes? Why is the Ethereal an Inner Plane if you can go ethereal in the Outer Planes? What makes the Outer Planes more "outer" than the Elemental Planes other than being connected to an alignment? Why isn't the Ethereal Plane called the Astral Plane when the concept of "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection']Astral Projection[/URL]" is better represented by D&D's Ethereal Plane? Why did the Phlogiston count as part of the Material Plane when it basically functioned as an entire other plane of existence? Why Hades the True Neutral Evil plane of existence and not Gehenna, the homeland of the True Neutral Evil fiends? D&D's cosmology has never been logical. Replacing the Phlo with the Astral doesn't make it any more nonsensical. They didn't "get rid of a continent." They got rid of the physical unification of the domains of dread. Most of main domains that made up the continent are still there. They're just not connected physically and are instead split up as island pocket dimensions in the Mists. The mini-settings you can go to are more or less the same and the base concept of the setting is the same. Ravenloft is still Ravenloft without the Core. [/QUOTE]
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