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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 3906713" data-attributes="member: 1190">No does WotC believe that...if they did, they would not release the SRD and they would not allow 3rd party publications.Heck, even within the company, the core mythology, cosmology, and even race structure is not going to be universal. Eberron will remain Eberron even as it shifts to 4e (I've lost the link that someone sent me...any help?) which means that gnomes will stay in as a core Eberron race and Dragonborn will not be developing dragonmarks. The orbiting plains will remain instead of the feywild, shadowfell, etc.BUTThe core of the OPs message seems to be that for the first time, D&D will actually have its OWN core mythology. Not random stuff thrown together, not watered down Greyhawk (so that those who love it can finally have it for real...and the rest of us can enjoy the game without it).If you pick up only the 3 core books and do not create your own setting, you will be playing in this new cosmology.Otherwise, you will be changing stuff anyway, be it to match Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron, Planescape, or Dragonlance or to match your homebrew. In either case, THE CORE COSMOLOGY IS IRRELEVANT.Honestly, I am glad to see (many of) the sacred cows go and I'm also glad to see that WotC is doing things for the game that don't necessarily cowtow to the most conservative among us. Heck, there are still people playing 1e and 2e. They never switched because the didn't like anything WotC (or late TSR) did. 4e will be the same way I suppose. Game designers can't design around that set.They can, IMO, keep doing what they're doing.DC</blockquote>

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