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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7697229" data-attributes="member: 22424">I'm not calling for the mythology to be discarded, or even changed. What I'm saying is that the elements that are strongly associated with a particular setting (like those named NPCs and Greyhawk) would be better placed in a product associated with that setting.Amongst other things, and despite the blending associated with the multiverse, the various settings each have their own flavour - Greyhawk isn't Ravenloft, which isn't Dark Sun, which isn't Eberron. IMO it's better to keep those flavours reasonably distinct by default and let groups who want to blend them to do that blending - that way, they can control the amount of cross-polination to suit themselves. (Heck, even Planescape and Spelljammer, which were designed in part to link other settings, have their own flavour distinct from the others.)Of course, anything can be hand-waved. Though in the case of Athas it's tricky - Ravenloft is intentionally hard to leave, Athas is deliberately remote from the Outer Planes (and thus Planescape), its Crystal Sphere is specifically described as closed, and there aren't any gods to share it.But please don't blow what I'm saying out of proportion. I said it was 'jarring', not that it was game-breaking, or a disaster for the setting, or anything of that sort. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 7697229, member: 22424"] I'm not calling for the mythology to be discarded, or even changed. What I'm saying is that the elements that are strongly associated with a particular setting (like those named NPCs and Greyhawk) would be better placed in a product associated with that setting. Amongst other things, and despite the blending associated with the multiverse, the various settings each have their own flavour - Greyhawk isn't Ravenloft, which isn't Dark Sun, which isn't Eberron. IMO it's better to keep those flavours reasonably distinct by default and let groups who want to blend them to do that blending - that way, they can control the amount of cross-polination to suit themselves. (Heck, even Planescape and Spelljammer, which were designed in part to link other settings, have their own flavour distinct from the others.) Of course, anything can be hand-waved. Though in the case of Athas it's tricky - Ravenloft is intentionally hard to leave, Athas is deliberately remote from the Outer Planes (and thus Planescape), its Crystal Sphere is specifically described as closed, and there aren't any gods to share it. But please don't blow what I'm saying out of proportion. I said it was 'jarring', not that it was game-breaking, or a disaster for the setting, or anything of that sort. :) [/QUOTE]

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