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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6131651" data-attributes="member: 11697">Because for a very long period of D&D's history (two editions, three editions if you're going with just the Great Wheel lore rather than PS in specific) it was the gold standard for planar lore, being the assumed default except when a campaign setting chose to specifically have a different take on things (like Eberron's distinct cosmology). We had a large body of common planar lore and assumptions for most of the game's history with the Great Wheel starting in 1e, with Planescape being not so much a distinct setting separate from everything else than as a product line specifically exploring the D&D cosmology. It wasn't until 4e when -for reasons I can only speculate upon- that large swathes of the preceding thirty years of planar lore were dismissed or rewritten in rather radical fashion. 3e opened things up and allowed settings to step outside of the common framework, but for the most part it stayed with the common lore that had been built up regarding the various outsider races. The baseline in the MM wasn't as detailed, but you have to look really hard to find any blatant contradictions to earlier lore, whereas I have a hard time recognizing some 4e things using the same names as earlier creatures.You don't have to go into crazy detail in the 5e MM, but you should approach each monster with a deeply informed perspective on what has come before and write in such a way as to minimize contradictions. To me that's just being professional, and as I view it, if you're getting paid to write the material, you're getting paid to know it as well as you reasonably can. It's a point of professional pride for me to know all of that stuff and know it well, at least from my perspective. You won't have a subchapter to detail things heavily, but it's about being respectful to previous lore and the body of material that came before you. That was clearly the case in the 3e MotP given the amount of Planescape material that wound up therein, same as with the 3.5 DMG, the Fiendish Codices, and many other 3.x books. Less successful examples would be the 3.5 Voor and Corrupter of Fate, which while presented as yugoloths, violate a number of things regarding 'loth society and ecology that suggests a large degree of unfamiliarity with earlier sources in those two specific cases, which is unfortunate.I'm not entirely sure it's going to do much to try to continue to argue this with you, given how rather, umm, vehement that you've been about disliking PS, but I'll try.</blockquote>

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