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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6234862" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>And how many of those ways don't involve more than 2 paragraphs worth of description and a table? Because anything more than that to detail in a Gold dwarf because you refuse to just add onto and slightly change the two pages of description spent on the Hill dwarf in the PH is a waste of space I'd rather see go to more description of the various locales of the FR. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From what I'm gathering, you're advocating for entire cosmologies that are complete and separate from any other. And presumably... just like you seem to be advocating for dwarves... with little to no overlap. You want them to be entirely standalone. Which requires you to spend pages upon pages to go into base detail about how the entirety of the cosmology works, because you can't have anything be "universal" to D&D cosmologies on the whole. Which is what my "portal" example was getting at-- a part of D&D cosmology that <em>doesn't need</em> to be a unique sparklepony for each and every setting. How portals works can be universal to all settings without robbing any of them of their identities. And the same holds true for any other number of bits and bobs of planar life. Another example? The clerical domains Wyatt was talking about. You can use the same universal D&D "Life Domain" and have it apply to all the lifegiver gods of every setting... you don't need to create unique domains for each setting every single time. That's a duplication of work for little to no benefit other than "special snowflake" syndrome.</p><p></p><p>To have a base D&D game that you don't actually apply to any of your campaign settings you produce results in a whole heap of time and word count spent recreating minutia that in the long run is inconsequential enough to be a waste.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6234862, member: 7006"] And how many of those ways don't involve more than 2 paragraphs worth of description and a table? Because anything more than that to detail in a Gold dwarf because you refuse to just add onto and slightly change the two pages of description spent on the Hill dwarf in the PH is a waste of space I'd rather see go to more description of the various locales of the FR. From what I'm gathering, you're advocating for entire cosmologies that are complete and separate from any other. And presumably... just like you seem to be advocating for dwarves... with little to no overlap. You want them to be entirely standalone. Which requires you to spend pages upon pages to go into base detail about how the entirety of the cosmology works, because you can't have anything be "universal" to D&D cosmologies on the whole. Which is what my "portal" example was getting at-- a part of D&D cosmology that [I]doesn't need[/I] to be a unique sparklepony for each and every setting. How portals works can be universal to all settings without robbing any of them of their identities. And the same holds true for any other number of bits and bobs of planar life. Another example? The clerical domains Wyatt was talking about. You can use the same universal D&D "Life Domain" and have it apply to all the lifegiver gods of every setting... you don't need to create unique domains for each setting every single time. That's a duplication of work for little to no benefit other than "special snowflake" syndrome. To have a base D&D game that you don't actually apply to any of your campaign settings you produce results in a whole heap of time and word count spent recreating minutia that in the long run is inconsequential enough to be a waste. [/QUOTE]
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