D&D 5E D&D Next playtest post mortem by Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson. From seven years ago.

[Umbran]

Then can we be done with the latest round of "glass gets villified for not towing WotC party line" now please?

It is past time for you to consider the possibility that folks have honest opinions about the material, rather than a "party line".

You have admitted that your opinion is not an informed one. Why should it be given creedence?

 

[Umbran]

You do not get to tell anyone else what they are allowed to find meaningful.

So, let us try this - what is more meaningful to the setting: The presence of crystal spheres and phlogiston, or the types of stories you get from playing?

And, by the way, crystal spheres and phlogiston have diddly to do with "space".

 

[Fifth Element]

What would Jobs "shouting hands back on" equivalent be?

Flashbacks from the edition wars! ("Just don't narrate it as losing a hand! Hands don't grow back from rest either, you know!")

 

[Fifth Element]

Yes, whatever could I possibly be talking about. Oh look, it's right there in almost your very next sentence (bolding mine, italics yours):

Clipping the sentence in order to remove additional context is very poor form. You left out the references to stars, the heavens, Widspace, a silvery void, hopping between worlds. Sounds pretty darn space-y to me.

 

[Fifth Element]

inaccurate? No?

No, the only inaccurate bit I see in this thread is your claim that because they refer to the Astral Plane, it means it has nothing to do with space, despite all of the other things they also refer to which make it very clear it is to do with space.

 

[niklinna]

Flashbacks from the edition wars! ("Just don't narrate it as losing a hand! Hands don't grow back from rest either, you know!")

Nor from spells, which only restore hit points.

 

[niklinna]

No, the only inaccurate bit I see in this thread is your claim that because they refer to the Astral Plane, it means it has nothing to do with space, despite all of the other things they also refer to which make it very clear it is to do with space.

I had the distinct impression from somewhere that in 5e, outer space and the Astral Plane are one and the same.

 

[billd91]

What would Jobs "shouting hands back on" equivalent be?

John Sculley?

 

[James Gasik]

I had the distinct impression from somewhere that in 5e, outer space and the Astral Plane are one and the same.

Maybe from 4e, which called it the "Astral Sea"?

 

[darjr]

I had the distinct impression from somewhere that in 5e, outer space and the Astral Plane are one and the same.

They are not. Wildspace is outer space. For instance you age there and need to eat and can die of dehydration.

It’s a vacuum and you need air.

Wildspace and the Astral sea do overlap.

But they are not the “same thing”.