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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 4187608" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>I don't have a problem with the idea that Toril or Krynn or Athas or whatever is not the "only world in its setting universe". There can be other populated worlds in those campaign settings' universes. </p><p></p><p>What I personally have a problem with is the idea that the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, the Dragonlance Campaign Setting, the Dark Sun Campaign Setting, etc etc, somehow all exist in the same physical universe (eg. they're all just planets floating around in the same space, perhaps in the same galaxy, perhaps not).</p><p></p><p>I mean, if you take Dark Sun as an example, a major part of that campaign setting is that the world is somehow cut off from all the other planes of existence. It's isolated. It's dying. It shouldn't have people suddenly gating in from Toril or wherever ... <em>or</em> flying in from outer space.</p><p></p><p>If you take Ravenloft, on the other hand, part of its concept was that it was its own plane of existence and that connections could be made to other planes, on which existed the other campaign settings ... but it never presupposed that those other campaign settings were all in the same universe. At least, I don't remember it doing so. I could be wrong.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anyway ... how did we even get on this topic? I also think we appear to be equivocating a bit here. Some of us are talking about support for campaign settings while others are talking about said campaign settings co-existing in a fictional universe. So um yeah ...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Going to bed now.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Jonathan</p><p></p><p>p.s. Ari - glad you agree with me. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 4187608, member: 54629"] I don't have a problem with the idea that Toril or Krynn or Athas or whatever is not the "only world in its setting universe". There can be other populated worlds in those campaign settings' universes. What I personally have a problem with is the idea that the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, the Dragonlance Campaign Setting, the Dark Sun Campaign Setting, etc etc, somehow all exist in the same physical universe (eg. they're all just planets floating around in the same space, perhaps in the same galaxy, perhaps not). I mean, if you take Dark Sun as an example, a major part of that campaign setting is that the world is somehow cut off from all the other planes of existence. It's isolated. It's dying. It shouldn't have people suddenly gating in from Toril or wherever ... [i]or[/i] flying in from outer space. If you take Ravenloft, on the other hand, part of its concept was that it was its own plane of existence and that connections could be made to other planes, on which existed the other campaign settings ... but it never presupposed that those other campaign settings were all in the same universe. At least, I don't remember it doing so. I could be wrong. Anyway ... how did we even get on this topic? I also think we appear to be equivocating a bit here. Some of us are talking about support for campaign settings while others are talking about said campaign settings co-existing in a fictional universe. So um yeah ... Going to bed now. Cheers, Jonathan p.s. Ari - glad you agree with me. :) [/QUOTE]
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