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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9513685" data-attributes="member: 6790260">If you would prefer a condensed summary:Early D&amp;D emphasized that the Prime Material covered every possible world that was even remotely a place where ordinary people could live.At some point (argued to be after Gygax was no longer calling the shots), it instead became focused on the Way Cooler Other Planes (Inner and Outer), with the potentially-infinite variety of the Prime Material reduced to &quot;oh yeah, I guess that's where people come from? Kinda boring tho.&quot;5e, Snarf claims (and I agree), has continued or even accelerated this trend.It would be nice to see this trend reverse, though, and for adventures and the culture-of-play to put much more focus on the Prime and all its crazy infinite variety, with more alien planes being closer to &quot;oh, yeah, I guess that's where &lt;weird being that invades the Prime&gt; comes from?&quot; I believe Snarf would prefer that this not take the form of prewritten settings, but rather a generalized notion of &quot;all the worlds are there, if you can just find your way&quot; sort of thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9513685, member: 6790260"] If you would prefer a condensed summary: Early D&D emphasized that the Prime Material covered every possible world that was even remotely a place where ordinary people could live. At some point (argued to be after Gygax was no longer calling the shots), it instead became focused on the Way Cooler Other Planes (Inner and Outer), with the potentially-infinite variety of the Prime Material reduced to "oh yeah, I guess that's where people come from? Kinda boring tho." 5e, Snarf claims (and I agree), has continued or even accelerated this trend. It would be nice to see this trend reverse, though, and for adventures and the culture-of-play to put much more focus on the Prime and all its crazy infinite variety, with more alien planes being closer to "oh, yeah, I guess that's where <weird being that invades the Prime> comes from?" I believe Snarf would prefer that this not take the form of prewritten settings, but rather a generalized notion of "all the worlds are there, if you can just find your way" sort of thing. [/QUOTE]

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