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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3854820" data-attributes="member: 7624">Let's look at the Eladrin.I am working on a setting right now and have an extensive backstory for the elves of my setting, a backstory that is rather complex and doesn't lend itself to changing high elves into eladrin. It simply will not work for my setting, period.So I have two choices:1.) I can change pages of written material allowing for a new and divergent species to be shoehorned into a setting I have been using off and on for 15 years and am now preparing for publication. This is a huge hassle.2.) I can take the creatures named eladrin in the 4e PHB when it is released and simply use this race as the high magical, high cultured elves of my setting and just call them elves. The easiest solution.Well it goes without saying that I will be renaming eladrin into elves while very possibly using the mechanics of eladrin. This will provide me with the opportunity to really have a divergent type of elf which is what I wanted anyway and will require no more work from me other than changing an arbitrary name created by the creative folks at WoTC. I like the name eladrin, but it doesn't work in my setting so I will change it without hesitation.Another example is the Tiefling, a name I find more repellent than nearly any racial name I have ever encountered (illuminians being a close second). I already have a plane touched race whose blood is tainted by fiends but this race is named according to the needs and assumptions of my setting. I may use the tiefling mechanics if I find them useful, but I may change them. I won't know until the SRD is made public.My setting has an entire self-consistant planar cosmology built in so, though I like what I am reading about ditching the Great Wheel, it doesn't concern me if WoTC keeps or discards keeps or discards any number of planes or the gods therein. I already envisioned the planar realms of the gods as realms existing throughout the Astral Plane (or Sea). My demons are tied to a realm other than the Abyss and my devils have always been fallen celestial beings. So much of what I have been working with is based on sources other than D&D canon that WoTC's choices just don't matter that much. I don't understand an emotional connection to some of these things unless one is either a Greyhawk or Planescape DM or player in which case I can fully understand the concern. However, because I would imagine very few DMs and players are either Greyhawk or Planescape afficianados preferring instead either homebrew or other settings I don't get the whole "they are ruining 30yrs of D&D mythology" complaint.D&D isn't an ambiguous core setting, it is the countless individual homebrew settings and the many TSR, WoTC and 3rd party settings and the campaigns therein. This is D&D, not the lore in sourcebooks that are constantly contridicting themselves and rewriting things. These sourcebooks are written by folks just like us who are hopefully DMs and players themselves. The only difference is that these DMs are payed to put their pet ideas into print.Sundragon</blockquote>

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