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<blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 2143620" data-attributes="member: 6318">The Warhammer world doesn't have a planetary name.Oerth and Ærth are part of a series of parallel Earths with different metaphysics and levels of magic (see &quot;Why Gargoyles Don't Have Wings...&quot; in Polyhedron #21). Oerth is apparently not pronounced the same as Earth, though I'd assumed it was.The planet of which Faerûn is a continent was only named &quot;Abeir-Toril&quot; for the 1987 Forgotten Realms Campaign Set; &quot;Toril&quot; is from Jeff Grubb's world.As an exercise in science-fictional worldbuilding, planets make sense, but as a setting for stories that set-up has no particular privilege, since worlds for stories have to speak to the imagination and what people care about. I don't know how Gez distinguishes sword &amp; sorcery from &quot;pulp fantasy&quot; (all sorts of fantasy were published in the pulps, the non-contemporary stuff being mostly sword &amp; sorcery), but part of Gary Gygax's reason for making the World of Greyhawk a planet may well have been his love of Burroughsian planetary romance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faraer, post: 2143620, member: 6318"] The Warhammer world doesn't have a planetary name.Oerth and Ærth are part of a series of parallel Earths with different metaphysics and levels of magic (see "Why Gargoyles Don't Have Wings..." in [i]Polyhedron[/i] #21). Oerth is apparently not pronounced the same as Earth, though I'd assumed it was. The planet of which Faerûn is a continent was only named "Abeir-Toril" for the 1987 [i]Forgotten Realms Campaign Set[/i]; "Toril" is from Jeff Grubb's world. As an exercise in science-fictional worldbuilding, planets make sense, but as a setting for stories that set-up has no particular privilege, since worlds for stories have to speak to the imagination and what people care about. I don't know how Gez distinguishes sword & sorcery from "pulp fantasy" (all sorts of fantasy were published in the pulps, the non-contemporary stuff being mostly sword & sorcery), but part of Gary Gygax's reason for making the World of Greyhawk a planet may well have been his love of Burroughsian planetary romance. [/QUOTE]

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