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MTOF: Elves are gender-swapping reincarnates and I am on board with it
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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7432935" data-attributes="member: 6786839"><p>So far as I can tell, few people have done much to defy or revise the planar setting of 1E. If Planescape had never been published, would the Gygaxian diagram still be D&D's default? the diagram, I forget if it was PHB or DMG, with inner Etherial and outer Astral, four elements, nine outer alignments AND an inner "positive-negative" sandwich?</p><p></p><p>Perhaps most D&D authors live on something more or less equivalent to the Prime Material, and thus come up with variations inspired by the range of fictions set on such equivalents, and relatively few authors have such strong artistic inspiration for other planes. That said, yes, any setting other than Greyhawk, should include the relationship between Prime Material and any other planes... if there ARE other planes.</p><p></p><p>Even a player or DM who has never seen such a diagram, still learns something about the Etherial and Astral Planes from spell descriptions, magic item descriptions, and monster descriptions (such as phase spiders). Those assumptions are "baked into the rules" in many places other than the actual chapter on the planes. If you want to use 5E rules for a setting with different core assumptions, such as Narnia or Middle Earth, you're gonna run into conflicts as soon as anyone casts Rope Trick; or on session one, possibly session zero, if anyone plays a Tiefling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 7432935, member: 6786839"] So far as I can tell, few people have done much to defy or revise the planar setting of 1E. If Planescape had never been published, would the Gygaxian diagram still be D&D's default? the diagram, I forget if it was PHB or DMG, with inner Etherial and outer Astral, four elements, nine outer alignments AND an inner "positive-negative" sandwich? Perhaps most D&D authors live on something more or less equivalent to the Prime Material, and thus come up with variations inspired by the range of fictions set on such equivalents, and relatively few authors have such strong artistic inspiration for other planes. That said, yes, any setting other than Greyhawk, should include the relationship between Prime Material and any other planes... if there ARE other planes. Even a player or DM who has never seen such a diagram, still learns something about the Etherial and Astral Planes from spell descriptions, magic item descriptions, and monster descriptions (such as phase spiders). Those assumptions are "baked into the rules" in many places other than the actual chapter on the planes. If you want to use 5E rules for a setting with different core assumptions, such as Narnia or Middle Earth, you're gonna run into conflicts as soon as anyone casts Rope Trick; or on session one, possibly session zero, if anyone plays a Tiefling. [/QUOTE]
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