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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8579466" data-attributes="member: 86653">I have the opposite view. Without the crystal spheres the usefulness of Spelljammer as a meta-setting is limited. Without the crystal spheres you have to come up with reasons why settings with different cosmologies can exist in the same prime material plane. You have to explain why different settings have different patterns of stars. You have to explain how some settings are heliocentric whilst others are geocentric. The same problems the crystal spheres were invented to solve will need to be solved again if the crystal spheres are removed.Well, it doesn't have to be. It just makes things infinitely easier. Without the crystal spheres you have to take time to explain how each setting's unique this or that interacts with the space around it. How each of these things are possible and how the contradictory explanations are all correct. Or...crystal spheres.Sure, to each there own. But the current devs have already said the various settings are all on the same material plane. They've mentioned phlogiston and crystal spheres, too IIRC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8579466, member: 86653"] I have the opposite view. Without the crystal spheres the usefulness of Spelljammer as a meta-setting is limited. Without the crystal spheres you have to come up with reasons why settings with different cosmologies can exist in the same prime material plane. You have to explain why different settings have different patterns of stars. You have to explain how some settings are heliocentric whilst others are geocentric. The same problems the crystal spheres were invented to solve will need to be solved [I]again[/I] if the crystal spheres are removed. Well, it doesn't [I]have to be[/I]. It just makes things infinitely easier. Without the crystal spheres you have to take time to explain how each setting's unique this or that interacts with the space around it. How each of these things are possible and how the contradictory explanations are all correct. Or...crystal spheres. Sure, to each there own. But the current devs have already said the various settings are all on the same material plane. They've mentioned phlogiston and crystal spheres, too IIRC. [/QUOTE]

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