D&D 5E The Multiverse is back....
- Thread starter TerraDave
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Patrick McGill
First Post
I'm fine with it in regards to published settings. I may or may not include home brewed worlds in the multiverse. I think in general my home made worlds are multiverse agnostic unless I feel like the story needs that.
I still haven't forgiven them for "Warriors of Heaven" back in 2E. It seems to me that they are repeating that offense.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
Yeah and apparently all magic is basically the Force or the Weave or some bootyhaberdashery now.
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But at least it seems easy to treat it like that sexy lady in high school treated me.
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But at least it seems easy to treat it like that sexy lady in high school treated me.
Lord Blackstone
First Post
Two words: Planescape & Spelljammer!
Yes, Sir!!!
I am loving this. Making reference to canon characters like Tika and Artimus, WTF... I cannot wait to see what WotC is planning down the road.
Whizbang Dustyboots
100% that gnome
They're doing what, exactly? Reprinting that for 5E?
Shemeska
Adventurer
It's one step in the right direction at least.
TerraDave
5ever, or until 2024
The 2E version could be cheesy (lets not just have elminster, lets have all the top mages together!), but the potential is there. To say have characters move from your home brew, to dark sun, to eberon, to the old west...which you could do anyways, but now more officially. Or to have Mordekainan as a past visitor in your world. And so on, and so forth.
And an official meta setting is much cooler then say just FR (or any one of them) as the "default setting".
And an official meta setting is much cooler then say just FR (or any one of them) as the "default setting".
They assigned deities from all settings (including the Known World/Mystara, which had its own distinct cosmology) to planes on the AD&D "Great Wheel" cosmology -- which required assigning alignments to deities previously described only in Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic terms.
So I was basically complaining about WotC unifying the cosmology for 5E as TSR did in that 2E product that most of you have never even heard of.
TerraDave
5ever, or until 2024
They then moved things away from the great wheel...now they move it all back, including Eberon, which was never there?
We have only seen part of this, but will be interesting to find out.
doctorhook
Hero
It's been six years, but I still can't wait to hear more about how WotC has ruined Planescape for you again.
Eberron is a self-contained universe whose planes don't correspond well with those of the Great Wheel. Changing the number of planes in the Eberron universe breaks the Baker's Dozen, which is a significant pattern in the setting; in 4E Eberron, it was tolerable to sort the planes according to the World-Axis cosmology (e.g.: Fernia and Risia are the "Elemental Chaos", and Daanvi and Shavarath are in the "Astral Sea"), but adding The Nine Hells to Eberron broke the pattern for no good reason.
I don't mind Spelljammer and Planescape, but I won't be allowing any crossovers with Eberron in my game.
Lord Blackstone
First Post
I am hoping for a book called Multiverse. A write up on ALL of the campaign settings and how they are tied together with ideas to link your personal homebrew. Yes, most people can figure it out themselves, but getting another perspective doesn't hurt.
Sonny
Adventurer
I think there's a bigger reason for the multiverse then just 2e nostalgia or finding a way to bring all campaigns together. Brand Identity - Just like the references to Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk and Dragonlance in the Basic Rulebook. The quotes from the novels as well. Everything is there to remind people *this* is Dungeons & Dragons. It's history, it's worlds, it's heroes and villains. With Pathfinder and a slew of other retro-clones out there, D&D's history and IP are something no one else can claim and use in their products. It's one of D&D biggest strengths and WoTC is capitalizing on it. As they should.
Kobold Avenger
Legend
I'm of the view that the multiverse can't truly be mapped, and that a cosmology is just a way of seeing/conceptualizing how various planes fit together. All cosmological systems are valid, but the Great Wheel fits because it's so far been the best way of conceptualizing the planes for the vast majority of sages and philosophers, especially those who live around Sigil.
Same here, encompassing, yet flexible.
The Multiverse is back...
<channels best Nathan Lane> "Back?...Where [did it go]?"
<channels best Nathan Lane> "Back?...Where [did it go]?"
