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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5298349" data-attributes="member: 14159">As was already said, Planescape and Spelljammer were written to be D&amp;D crossover settings, and Ravenloft had lots of crossover opportunities.A world-spanning crossover setting is the default setting of Gurps 4th Edition.&nbsp; A world-crossover setting was one of several included in the d20 Future expansion for d20 Modern.&nbsp; Not every campaign is meant to cross over.&nbsp; One of the most fun long-running D&amp;D games I ever ran was a quasi-historic game set in the 1190's with PC's participating in the Third Crusade.&nbsp; PC's had to be human, obviously, and magic was sharply restricted.&nbsp; Someone asked to join my D&amp;D game, and said he was going to play a Lawful Evil Elven Fighter/Mage/Thief and demanded to also roll for wild talents (it was when 2e was the current edition).&nbsp; I explained to him that the game was a more-or-less historic game, so there were no elves, mages or psionics, and I don't allow Evil PC's.&nbsp; He first tried to rationalize it as a planewalker that arrived on Earth by mistake, and I vetoed it as the game had it's own planar cosmology other than the Great Wheel, and then tried to say it was a spelljammer crewman who had been accidentally marooned, and I said the world was not in the Spelljammer cosmology and there are no spelljammers in the setting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite his protests that they are &quot;official D&amp;D options, so you have to allow them in every game!&quot; I told him that they were not allowed in that campaign.&nbsp; I didn't really want him in my campaign, but I really didn't want the character he was going to create.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 5298349, member: 14159"] As was already said, Planescape and Spelljammer were written to be D&D crossover settings, and Ravenloft had lots of crossover opportunities. A world-spanning crossover setting is the default setting of Gurps 4th Edition. A world-crossover setting was one of several included in the d20 Future expansion for d20 Modern. Not every campaign is meant to cross over. One of the most fun long-running D&D games I ever ran was a quasi-historic game set in the 1190's with PC's participating in the Third Crusade. PC's had to be human, obviously, and magic was sharply restricted. Someone asked to join my D&D game, and said he was going to play a Lawful Evil Elven Fighter/Mage/Thief and demanded to also roll for wild talents (it was when 2e was the current edition). I explained to him that the game was a more-or-less historic game, so there were no elves, mages or psionics, and I don't allow Evil PC's. He first tried to rationalize it as a planewalker that arrived on Earth by mistake, and I vetoed it as the game had it's own planar cosmology other than the Great Wheel, and then tried to say it was a spelljammer crewman who had been accidentally marooned, and I said the world was not in the Spelljammer cosmology and there are no spelljammers in the setting. Despite his protests that they are "official D&D options, so you have to allow them in every game!" I told him that they were not allowed in that campaign. I didn't really want him in my campaign, but I really didn't want the character he was going to create. [/QUOTE]

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