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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7476436" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>As was mentioned before, the problem with Planescape is that it tells every other setting that they are wrong. Full stop. Krynn had no Hell (at least not until MUCH later, after TSR decided to mash all their settings together). Meaning that everything to do with Hell did not exist in Krynn. There was no Asmodeus in Krynn.</p><p></p><p>Which makes a lot of sense since it would be kinda tricky to have Asmodeus and Takhisis in the same setting.</p><p></p><p>Then, along comes Planescape and says, NOPE. Every setting MUST FIT into the One True Cosmology. Even Eberron, while it has a mini-cosmology, is still forced into the square peg of the greater cosmology.</p><p></p><p>Which means all those gods and demon lords and devil lords and whatnot of all those other settings are sitting side by side with all the gods and demon lords and devil lords of EVERY other setting. Hell must be a really, really busy place. How exactly does Takhisis co-exist with Demogorgon and Asmodeus and Tyr? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></p><p></p><p>The shoehorning of the setting did no one a favor. You are forcing all this extra stuff onto settings where it really doesn't do any good. And, there is the other issue - every publication MUST adhere to the Planescape model. Demons can't come from another planet. They MUST come from the Abyss. Devils don't live under volcanoes. They MUST come from Hell. And the only real Abyss and Hell are the ones found in Planescape and the Great Wheel.</p><p></p><p>It baffles me that people are so invested in forcing this tired old way of doing things and are so dead set against any originality coming into the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7476436, member: 22779"] As was mentioned before, the problem with Planescape is that it tells every other setting that they are wrong. Full stop. Krynn had no Hell (at least not until MUCH later, after TSR decided to mash all their settings together). Meaning that everything to do with Hell did not exist in Krynn. There was no Asmodeus in Krynn. Which makes a lot of sense since it would be kinda tricky to have Asmodeus and Takhisis in the same setting. Then, along comes Planescape and says, NOPE. Every setting MUST FIT into the One True Cosmology. Even Eberron, while it has a mini-cosmology, is still forced into the square peg of the greater cosmology. Which means all those gods and demon lords and devil lords and whatnot of all those other settings are sitting side by side with all the gods and demon lords and devil lords of EVERY other setting. Hell must be a really, really busy place. How exactly does Takhisis co-exist with Demogorgon and Asmodeus and Tyr? :uhoh: The shoehorning of the setting did no one a favor. You are forcing all this extra stuff onto settings where it really doesn't do any good. And, there is the other issue - every publication MUST adhere to the Planescape model. Demons can't come from another planet. They MUST come from the Abyss. Devils don't live under volcanoes. They MUST come from Hell. And the only real Abyss and Hell are the ones found in Planescape and the Great Wheel. It baffles me that people are so invested in forcing this tired old way of doing things and are so dead set against any originality coming into the game. [/QUOTE]
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