Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
In the 2024 DMs Guide.
There is a presentation of the Greyhawk setting and its cosmology (including Astral Plane and Feywild etcetera) as an example. But the advice on how to create ones own setting and cosmology from scratch is lacking.
Comment. Huh. It seems Greyhawk really is the default setting. At least, it is the setting that a newbie DM is expected to use if only using core books. But it is more clearly a "default" to add to the rules, rather than a "baked in". The Forgotten Realms setting will appear in a supplement book. The cosmology, "the multiverse", is indeed the "core setting". There will probably be a separate book for worldbuilding. Or. The example of different official settings can inspire homebrew settings.
The advice for creating a new monster is little more than tweak an existing monster.
Comment. In the 2014 DMs Guide, the costs for creating a new monster were all wrong anyway. 2024 might as well not have them. The 2024 MM might have info for the DM to build a new monster. Or 2024 might rely on DMs at large to figure things out for themselves, and come up with their own systems for balancing monsters. Much of monster creation is arbitrary and difficult to formulate.
There is a presentation of the Greyhawk setting and its cosmology (including Astral Plane and Feywild etcetera) as an example. But the advice on how to create ones own setting and cosmology from scratch is lacking.
Comment. Huh. It seems Greyhawk really is the default setting. At least, it is the setting that a newbie DM is expected to use if only using core books. But it is more clearly a "default" to add to the rules, rather than a "baked in". The Forgotten Realms setting will appear in a supplement book. The cosmology, "the multiverse", is indeed the "core setting". There will probably be a separate book for worldbuilding. Or. The example of different official settings can inspire homebrew settings.
The advice for creating a new monster is little more than tweak an existing monster.
Comment. In the 2014 DMs Guide, the costs for creating a new monster were all wrong anyway. 2024 might as well not have them. The 2024 MM might have info for the DM to build a new monster. Or 2024 might rely on DMs at large to figure things out for themselves, and come up with their own systems for balancing monsters. Much of monster creation is arbitrary and difficult to formulate.