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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8527531" data-attributes="member: 5948">I rather hate this whole multiversal focus.&nbsp; TSR did it in 2e and it sucked then too.&nbsp; You end up with random poorly-suited bits of setting A shoehorned into setting B for the sake of 'crossover easter egg OMG', and you dilute the uniqueness and flavour of every setting.&nbsp; The Feywild is simply a bad fit in Athas and shouldn't be there, for instance - and neither do planes-travelling multiversal great wyrm dragons, any more than they fit in Krynn.&nbsp; We've continually heard from WotC that most campaigns don't make it past the level 10 mark or so, and at that point gameplay is still very local.&nbsp; So why the obsessive multiversal focus, given it'll only start to matter at high levels once Plane Shift etc comes into play?&nbsp; But the mega crossover always a popular angle with the sort of manager who hears the words 'synergy', 'leverage' and 'cross-promotion' and salivates like Pavlov's dog, and who refers to settings as 'properties' rather than 'settings'.Plus, not every world SHOULD be in a multiverse.&nbsp; It always dilutes a big epic 'save the world' campaign when at some point the PCs just casually bop over to Sigil and everyone there is 'what, you're on a quest to save your tiny insignificant Prime world from a local Dark Lord, yaaaawn, big deal, there's an infinite number of other Prime worlds where that came from, and besides, the Outer Planes are where the action is anyway'.&nbsp; Yeah, i hate this.&nbsp; It was a bad idea when TSR did it, and it's a bad idea now.&nbsp; The devs should know better, but I guess when you have the sort of staff turnover that WotC seems to, learning from the past is a bit hard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8527531, member: 5948"] I rather hate this whole multiversal focus. TSR did it in 2e and it sucked then too. You end up with random poorly-suited bits of setting A shoehorned into setting B for the sake of 'crossover easter egg OMG', and you dilute the uniqueness and flavour of every setting. The Feywild is simply a bad fit in Athas and shouldn't be there, for instance - and neither do planes-travelling multiversal great wyrm dragons, any more than they fit in Krynn. We've continually heard from WotC that most campaigns don't make it past the level 10 mark or so, and at that point gameplay is still very local. So why the obsessive multiversal focus, given it'll only start to matter at high levels once Plane Shift etc comes into play? But the mega crossover always a popular angle with the sort of manager who hears the words 'synergy', 'leverage' and 'cross-promotion' and salivates like Pavlov's dog, and who refers to settings as 'properties' rather than 'settings'. Plus, not every world SHOULD be in a multiverse. It always dilutes a big epic 'save the world' campaign when at some point the PCs just casually bop over to Sigil and everyone there is 'what, you're on a quest to save your tiny insignificant Prime world from a local Dark Lord, yaaaawn, big deal, there's an infinite number of other Prime worlds where that came from, and besides, the Outer Planes are where the action is anyway'. Yeah, i hate this. It was a bad idea when TSR did it, and it's a bad idea now. The devs should know better, but I guess when you have the sort of staff turnover that WotC seems to, learning from the past is a bit hard. [/QUOTE]

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