Design and Development: Cosmology

[Sundragon2012]

Admittedly I actually like the Feywild and Shadowfell as names, but either way you look at 'em, they're better than making a fantasy world and calling it Oerth. And then making another one and calling it Aerth. There's a reason that Futurama's "Universe A and Universe 1" gag was a gag, after all.

I will join you and Mouseferatu in your heresy.

I think we need to be questioned by the Spenesh Inquisition...or is it the Spinash Inquisition...or the Hsanips Inquisition.

I credit E.G.G. with the birth of D&D but his naming conventions sucked more often than not.



Sundragon

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Just wanted to chime in with the admirers of Klaus' picture...pure brilliance. Man, I hope they hire you for 4E illustrations!

 

[TwinBahamut]

Klaus' picture is good, but it just doesn't look enough like a "tempest" to me, its too sedate. Needs more raining fire barraging castles of ice and swirling vortices of earth and lightning. The elements of that picture are kinda seperate and at peace with each other, not constantly combinging and conflicting like they would in a place which is called a Maelstrom or an Elemental Chaos.

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Heh, funny...either the FR become the new "default" setting for D&D 4E (if yes, I missed something), or they're turning back to the policy of "one cosmology for all"

http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=13932726&postcount=554

 

[M.L. Martin]

Klaus' picture is good, but it just doesn't look enough like a "tempest" to me, its too sedate. Needs more raining fire barraging castles of ice and swirling vortices of earth and lightning. The elements of that picture are kinda seperate and at peace with each other, not constantly combinging and conflicting like they would in a place which is called a Maelstrom or an Elemental Chaos.

Call it a picture of the 'middle regions'. In the central regions they're clashing and creating new and strange combinations; in the outer regions, they tend to differentiate and clump together more strongly, leading earlier scholars to the conclusion that there were four (or more) distinct Elemental Planes that bordered each other.

 

[Fobok]

Call it a picture of the 'middle regions'. In the central regions they're clashing and creating new and strange combinations; in the outer regions, they tend to differentiate and clump together more strongly, leading earlier scholars to the conclusion that there were four (or more) distinct Elemental Planes that bordered each other.

I really like that idea. Helps me accept the changes a little easier.

 

[The Little Raven]

Heh, funny...either the FR become the new "default" setting for D&D 4E (if yes, I missed something), or they're turning back to the policy of "one cosmology for all"

I don't think it'll be a one-Cosmology-fits-all situation again, I just think they're turning the Forgotten Realms into the most "basic D&D" of the settings (which makes sense, since it's the #1 recognized D&D setting), so it will use things pretty much straight out of the core, with new story and hooks taking precedent over new mechanics.

Eberron, for example, uses everything in D&D, but throws a huge twist on everything (including it's interesting planar setup). I don't see them abandoning those twists to bring it in line with D&D 4th Edition's cosmology changes (just as I don't see the other campaign worlds succumbing to this change).