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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 7715606" data-attributes="member: 32659">I think that I see it more like Comics. At the moment they're focusing heavily on Metropolis, doing Superman stories and Supergirl stories and the like. Metropolis is a useful place, it's got name recognition and a nice pairing of generic vibe with highly specific flavour when you drill deep down. So they can have lots of stories there. But they also have other cities available - Coast City got its own story, and that was well received and had its own flavour. So soon they'll head to Gotham, have some stories there perhaps, and in the process make it clear that, hey, there's a road between Gotham and Metropolis - this isn't a totally different place, it's all connected. So the multiverse is not Planescape in a narrow sense, though yes Planescape is a part of the multiverse. Instead, it's a sign that they absolutely do want to bring in Dragonlance et al., but in a way that is useful to building a core story. They don't want you to identify as a Dragonlance player who happens to use 5e; they want Dragonlance to be a part of the identity built into 5e. The quotes in the PHB definitely suggest that, also the way that they keep tying the new books into old stories. To put it another way: saying 'D&D multiverse' is a way of referring to the disparate bits of lore, story, emotional baggage that decades of adventures, rulebooks, and novels have given the game. The goal is to connect those disparate parts together into a single whole, albeit one with different tones in different places. The same shared experience, if you will, rather than ten different experiences that just happen to share a d20 system.</blockquote>

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