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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4595334" data-attributes="member: 42582">The paragraph on p 13 says &quot;all upcoming 4th Edition Dungeons &amp; Dragons game products assume that the World Axis cosmology is the one you're using in your campaign&quot;. Page 12 lists, as examples of &quot;The World&quot; for different campaigns, Abeir-Toril, Athas, Eberron, Krynn and Oerth.I think this is pretty unambiguous - whatever 4e products there are for Dark Sun or Krynn, the present intention of WoTC is that those products will presuppose the World Axis cosmology.There is also a discussion of travelling to other worlds. On p 7, we are told &quot;If a traveller journeys through a fundamental plane into the trackless reaches outside the know dominions and realms, sooner or later he or she comes to the divine dominions or elemental kingdoms of different mortal worlds.&quot; On p 8 we are told that the anomolous planes (ie those whose exact nature and place in the cosmology is unclear) include &quot;other mortal worlds&quot;. And the Random Portal Destination table on p 18 indicates a 1 in 20 chance of the portal going to an &quot;Alternate World&quot;.So both Planescape-y and Spelljammer-y type options seems to be alive and well in the official rules (the latter by travelling on Astral Skiffs or Spelljammers to the edges of the Astral Sea or the Elemental Chaos). And these options presuppose a degree of common cosmology.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 4595334, member: 42582"] The paragraph on p 13 says "all upcoming 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons game products assume that the World Axis cosmology is the one you're using in your campaign". Page 12 lists, as examples of "The World" for different campaigns, Abeir-Toril, Athas, Eberron, Krynn and Oerth. I think this is pretty unambiguous - whatever 4e products there are for Dark Sun or Krynn, the present intention of WoTC is that those products will presuppose the World Axis cosmology. There is also a discussion of travelling to other worlds. On p 7, we are told "If a traveller journeys through a fundamental plane into the trackless reaches outside the know dominions and realms, sooner or later he or she comes to the divine dominions or elemental kingdoms of different mortal worlds." On p 8 we are told that the anomolous planes (ie those whose exact nature and place in the cosmology is unclear) include "other mortal worlds". And the Random Portal Destination table on p 18 indicates a 1 in 20 chance of the portal going to an "Alternate World". So both Planescape-y and Spelljammer-y type options seems to be alive and well in the official rules (the latter by travelling on Astral Skiffs or Spelljammers to the edges of the Astral Sea or the Elemental Chaos). And these options presuppose a degree of common cosmology. [/QUOTE]

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