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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3798587" data-attributes="member: 5868">Intriguing changes, but I'm a bit concerned -- these drastic changes will make it much more difficult to convert prior edition adventures to run in 4E.  It's amazing how many prior elements depend on the cosmologies (whether ethereal spells, certain monsters, or entire adventures like Bastion of Broken Souls or the later parts of Paizo adventure paths).The nice thing about the Great Wheel having been the generic cosmology for prior D&D (despite all its baggage) is that conversion from edition to edition of D&D products mostly only required mechanical changes, not reimaginings of the way the big pieces fit together which could invalidate entire adventures.  You can pick up a 1E module, tweak some mechanics, and it fits just fine in 3.5 convention, for example.Don't get me wrong -- the simplification of cosmology looks to be more interesting -- but I think WotC just made a big break with prior D&D history that will be tough to bridge without completely throwing out a big part of either the old or the new.  I hate it when game companies create more work for me rather than less.</blockquote>