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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3915715" data-attributes="member: 2067">None of those concepts rules out "some distant source of magical energy" and/or "a dimension between places." And even if they did, the spells could work as written without having to worry about it. And even THEN, even if they were ruled out and it affected spells (like it did with Sigil and teleportation), it's such a minor point of the rules that going around it was not really a problem.A racial ability to teleport (at will?) is much more ingrained in the system then a handful of spells that might possibly draw on or access some other dimension. Eladrin might not even be *usable*, if it's an important enough power for them.It remains to be seen how, exactly, pervasive this type of thing is, but if they're not shy about slapping it on a racial power from level 1, it's reasonable to have a concern that they might not be particularly rare.Or take the wizard styles that have those confusingly obtuse names like Golden Wyvern. The previews may suggest that it's a wizard style and a name of a feat. One may infer that it's could easily be more than that, too. If I don't have the Golden Wyvern Wizards IMC, for whatever reason, it means that I'm de-tangling at least two (and likely more) elements from each other, and having, as a DM, to account for that. The more common they are, the more they'll get in the way. We don't have proof that they're extremely common, but the previews suggest they may be, so it's a reasonable concern. It still HAD a mythology, though, so 4e isn't doing anything new in defining their own. It may be a different mythology, but 3e built it's brand through it's mythology if you believe that 3e  had a strong implied setting.We may as well have had Merlin, Gandalf, The Bursar, Hoplytes, Ptah, and Krom for all the game was attached to those particular concepts.Or, here's a better exercise, count the differences between the 3e SRD and the 3e Core Rulebooks. That's how generically non-Greyhawk 3e was.4e, if it is building a brand, is going to have multitudinous differences from it's SRD, not just a handful of nearly meaningless names.</blockquote>

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