D&D 5E Two more Classic Settings to go

[Sithlord]

This is precisely why the entire Planescape structure is hot garbage that should never have even been considered as potentially defining the default of D&D .

I can’t think of a better setting for those that like to planehop to different worlds. And David zeb cook is a freaking genius. D&D’s loss is zenimax’s gain.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

By that logic, there are other gods that also should be unkillable, because they are also chaos, the universe, etc. In D&D where you have multiple pantheons with different gods that embody those things, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that those portions of those gods are just stories and not fact.

In the sense that they always seem to come back after being killed eventually, the Gods are unpermenanly Killable.

 

[Maxperson]

In the sense that they always seem to come back after being killed eventually, the Gods are unpermenanly Killable.

lol "Supehero" stories aside. They are permanently dead unless some exterior force acts on them.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

By that logic, there are other gods that also should be unkillable, because they are also chaos, the universe, etc. In D&D where you have multiple pantheons with different gods that embody those things, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that those portions of those gods are just stories and not fact.

Why even have gods, then? What is their point?

I can’t think of a better setting for those that like to planehop to different worlds. And David zeb cook is a freaking genius. D&D’s loss is zenimax’s gain.

As a distinct setting with no impact on the rest of D&D, it’s fine. I can just not play it.

The whole way it treats the gods and the worlds is just completely antithetical to what I want from D&D .

 

[Maxperson]

Why even have gods, then? What is their point?

I think there's lots of point to gods without having them be the literal universe. Super powerful beings in charge of their portfolios is quite enough in my opinion. They should be unkillable(beyond demigod status) without some sort of special story plot coupon or artifact.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think there's lots of point to gods without having them be the literal universe. Super powerful beings in charge of their portfolios is quite enough in my opinion. They should be unkillable(beyond demigod status) without some sort of special story plot coupon or artifact.

“Super powerful being” isn’t a god. It’s a big Wizard.

 

[Maxperson]

“Super powerful being” isn’t a god. It’s a big Wizard.

A god is just a super powerful being. Nothing more. Super powerful doesn't just mean big Wizard. You can make them completely invincible and all powerful, and they'd still just be super powerful beings.

 

[Parmandur]

This is precisely why the entire Planescape structure is hot garbage that should never have even been considered as potentially defining the default of D&D .

I mean, literally all D&D cosmology is pretty raging silliness. 4E was a little more coherent, but it was still no RuneQuest.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I mean, literally all D&D cosmology is pretty raging silliness. 4E was a little more coherent, but it was still no RuneQuest.

Not really. Eberron and Dragonlance are no sillier than many real world cosmological beliefs. Planescape makes all beliefs in the entirety of D&D into BS that ignorant losers believe because they don’t know any better. That is a whole other level of bad.

A god is just a super powerful being. Nothing more. Super powerful doesn't just mean big Wizard. You can make them completely invincible and all powerful, and they'd still just be super powerful beings.

Yeah I don’t know a single person who believes in any gods who would agree with that.

Gods are an existentially different type of being from anything else.

 

[Maxperson]

Gods are an existentially different type of being from anything else.

Different or not, they're super powerful. Even one who created the multiverse in 6 days is super powerful.