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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6396027" data-attributes="member: 2067">You haven't ever cracked the covers of a book called "Manual of the Planes," have ya? I mean, if you're not working for WotC, go nuts, nothing's stopping you from doing that TODAY if you wanted. "Acheron" is in the public domain. Write up a PDF and put it on RPGNow. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If you're working for WotC, you know that you're going to have an audience with some preconceived notions associated with that word. So you would want to consider is the published history of the plane in D&D, to understand the context in which your work will be received. That's part of the deal you accept when you're WotC versus when you're some jerk on the internet: you're working with terms that have meaning to people already. That means you'd want a sense of how people are already using the plane before you went and did much with it.Which means you'd know that the 1e Acheron and the 3e Acheron as described in each e's Manual of the Planes was pretty much the same as it was in Planescape: a void of floating and colliding cubes. In which case of course you couldn't publish your apocalyptic city Acheron, it displays a deep ignorance of your audience. An audience who sees such ignorance often sees it as insulting -- which, you know, since you absolutely failed to understand what they might want before trying to sell them something, yeah, it kind of is.So then I'd ask why you need your plane of apocalyptic cities to be called "Acheron." Just dub it something else, I dunno, "Chutah." It's not like there's not a lot of words with similar associations and no real use in D&D. Google around for five minutes. I think that if WotC wanted to publish an adventure that made use of a plane of ruined cities named Chutah as part of a world where, I dunno, all the planes are possible futures for the setting, though, that they should be able to. And if you want to publish that setting with that place named Acheron, absolutely no one is stopping you, currently.</blockquote>

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