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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8506774" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>I wouldn't say the DC multiverse is superior to the D&D multiverse . . . . but it is certainly glorious in it's complexity and weirdness. This, to me, is a strength of the comics genre that is shared with D&D.</p><p></p><p>And of course, the DC multiverse has evolved over the decades . . . DC, and their counterpart Marvel, have long been okay with retcons and retrofits to their characters, stories, and cosmology. D&D, for whatever reason, got burned when trying to update and revise things (4th Edition). The awesome diagram you posted was the state of the DC multiverse at that time of publication, it has since evolved even further with the introduction of the "Dark Multiverse" from the Death Metal story. And it will continue to evolve and be retconned.</p><p></p><p>I'm perfectly fine with gamers reinventing the cosmology of D&D for their own tables, and I'm perfectly fine with WotC updating and retconning the cosmology for the next edition of the game, as they tried to do so before with 4th Edition. I'm curious if the now broader audience for D&D will be more accepting of an updated, possibly simplified, D&D cosmology than the audience was back in 2008.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8506774, member: 18182"] I wouldn't say the DC multiverse is superior to the D&D multiverse . . . . but it is certainly glorious in it's complexity and weirdness. This, to me, is a strength of the comics genre that is shared with D&D. And of course, the DC multiverse has evolved over the decades . . . DC, and their counterpart Marvel, have long been okay with retcons and retrofits to their characters, stories, and cosmology. D&D, for whatever reason, got burned when trying to update and revise things (4th Edition). The awesome diagram you posted was the state of the DC multiverse at that time of publication, it has since evolved even further with the introduction of the "Dark Multiverse" from the Death Metal story. And it will continue to evolve and be retconned. I'm perfectly fine with gamers reinventing the cosmology of D&D for their own tables, and I'm perfectly fine with WotC updating and retconning the cosmology for the next edition of the game, as they tried to do so before with 4th Edition. I'm curious if the now broader audience for D&D will be more accepting of an updated, possibly simplified, D&D cosmology than the audience was back in 2008. [/QUOTE]
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