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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip F Goding" data-source="post: 7754902" data-attributes="member: 6914441">The way I understand things Sigil is a Ringworld sort of place somewhat separated from the planes with doors or portals that you need a key for that leads to all the different planes. The Prime Material Plane itself is composed of all the different settings/realities/alternate universe/etc each enclosed in crystal spheres, so they are essentially bubble universes and they are separated by phlogiston. In the DC Universe this is called The Bleed. I suppose there are different doorways/portals on Sigil that might lead to different settings in the Prime Material Plane and that could be one way to reach other settings. Spelljammer was of course another way as you actually sailed the ocean of phlogiston to get to and enter other crystal spheres such as Greyhawkspace, Krynnspace etc from Realmspace or wherever. It appears that Eberronspace however had it's sphere blocked off from entrance and over time cracks are appearing and shards falling and it may be only now possible to travel to Eberron.Another way we can travel between realities seems to have opened up as we have access to The Yawning Portal in Waterdeep and apparently there are entrances to other worlds in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage of Halaster. This is very much like what I have long read concerning Castle Greyhawk where you famously could access Oz, Wonderland, Barsoom, Metamorphosis Alpha, Kong/Skull Island, Asgard, The Dying Earth, Melnibone, City of the Gods (Blackmoor), Nazi Germany and then there is the relationship between Rob Kuntz' El Raja Key or Maure Castle of Kalibruhn as well. I saw these places in each reality as a sort of nexus. I spent many years waiting for this Castle Greyhawk only getting bits and pieces periodically. Likewise getting bits and pieces of Rob's side of things. I imagines Dave Arneson had his own as well although I don't know if Castle Blackmoor fits this. Someone created a Castle of the Mad Archmage too. Now I see in Waterdeep we've taken Undermountain and melded in a lot of pieces and that is a nice thing for me. I did create for a campaign eventually my own Dark Tower nexus stealing some from Stephen King and meshing ithese elements in my own way, so who am I to complain that WotC is doing it too especially as they are bringing force realities of old as well as new ones (to D&D anyway). For me I always base things in Greyhawk. My Dark Tower I would replace with The Tower of Zenopus, Castle Greyhawk or Castle Zagyg or whatever. Any reality I don't care for becomes a nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there.Ravnica and Eberron now are interesting places to visit. It makes sense to me that Ravnica has oceans as all that water has to come from someplace and if there were not ocean level quantities of water you face pollution problems with waste. I start thinking Waterworld or houseboats linked together or buildings on stilts with foundations deep down like oil rigs and platforms. I remember the original Night Stalker movue and it's sequel The Night Strangler where the old city had been built over and still remained down there in the underdark, so Ravnica clearly has built over all of this. One imagines Ravnica with it's own Underdark and dark oceans to cross. I would create cosmic horrors of the Lovecraftian sort here. Thinking of settings I note that the percentages of women playing is up to nearly 40% now up from maybe 1% or and half percent when I started playing in 1979. We wanted girls to play with us, but didn't succeed that often. Now families play around the dining room table after dinner similar to how we played cards or board games. I wonder about the percentages of people of color as I see some, but not so many. I remember the old Deities and DemiGods and had wondered where the African pantheon was that you could set adventures in and now I see the popularity of the Black Panther film set in Wakanda and find that the sort of inspiration that could be used to create such a setting. As we go I'm sure we are going to be seeing Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Mystara and other setting both new and old coming before too long. There also seems to be a drive to reconnect with the past. Reaching out to Rob Kuntz and collaborating with him shouldn't be so hard especially as there seems to be this whole drive towards welcoming everybody. They clearly get along well with Keith Baker and Al Greenwood. Working out things with whomever holds Blackmoor rights and I know that Gary's wife has much of his materials, so working out something with her not just Luke and the other sons and daughters could be possible. Likewise there are so many folks that are resources for this material as well, not just the original players. I just dream of this world of D&D which has changed and evolved and improved in some ways continuing to get even better.Welcome to the return of the multiverse, welcome the return of Eberron, the former new kid on the block and welcome to the D&D version of Ravnica and now the current new kid on the block. I hope things go as well as they have for Eberron, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms who were each the new kid at one time.</blockquote>

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