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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4582573" data-attributes="member: 2067">Ah. Well, that I mostly just chalk up to &quot;it's the internet...&quot; Philosophical navel-gazing over meaninglessness is rampant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It was probably the best part of the 3e MotP, and the buzz from where I'm sitting confirmed that. The 3e MotP was largely regarded as an awesome resource, in part because of this. The 3e planar set up was heralded for finally allowing each setting to do a cosmology that made sense for it, rather than being forced into the Great Wheel. The approach I favor actually wants to broaden the niche. I'd rather have a book on Realms of the Dead that talked about different afterlives and gave us models for them (and creatures and adentures to have in them), as well as how to make your own, than a book on just the Shadowfell. I'd rather have a book on cosmologies that talked about different planar arrangements and gave us models for them (with the Great Bindle as the penultimate example) than a book on the Great Bindle. I'd rather have a book on possibly infinite visions of hell rather than a book just on the Nine Hells. A book on Realms of the Dead doesn't loose its value if someone doesn't use the Shadowfell. A book on cosmologies doesn't loose its value if you don't play with the Great Bindle. That allows you to keep a broad appeal for your books, and also lets you embrace the fact that cosmology should be very customizable. WotC should be rushing to give us different ideas for how to build our worlds, not putting up walls and saying &quot;Sorry, Midgard, you're going to have to have a Court of Stars, too!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4582573, member: 2067"] Ah. Well, that I mostly just chalk up to "it's the internet..." Philosophical navel-gazing over meaninglessness is [I]rampant[/I]. :) It was probably the best part of the 3e MotP, and the buzz from where I'm sitting confirmed that. The 3e MotP was largely regarded as an awesome resource, in part because of this. The 3e planar set up was heralded for finally allowing each setting to do a cosmology that made sense for it, rather than being forced into the Great Wheel. The approach I favor actually wants to broaden the niche. I'd rather have a book on [I]Realms of the Dead[/I] that talked about different afterlives and gave us models for them (and creatures and adentures to have in them), as well as how to make your own, than a book on just the Shadowfell. I'd rather have a book on cosmologies that talked about different planar arrangements and gave us models for them (with the Great Bindle as the penultimate example) than a book on the Great Bindle. I'd rather have a book on possibly infinite visions of hell rather than a book just on the Nine Hells. A book on Realms of the Dead doesn't loose its value if someone doesn't use the Shadowfell. A book on cosmologies doesn't loose its value if you don't play with the Great Bindle. That allows you to keep a broad appeal for your books, and also lets you embrace the fact that cosmology should be very customizable. WotC should be rushing to give us different ideas for how to build our worlds, not putting up walls and saying "Sorry, Midgard, you're going to have to have a Court of Stars, too!" [/QUOTE]

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