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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6240751" data-attributes="member: 11697">You don't have to have it as a binary choice.There are settings that have historically been tied together via the Great Wheel such as Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Darksun (albeit largely sealed off, it was part of the same cosmology), Ravenloft, and then Spelljammer and Planescape as metasettings. You've also got Dragonlance which was part of the Wheel technically, but the original creators didn't want it there, so I'm inclined to have any future versions not include it just to respect their vision.Then you've got settings like Eberron which were explicitly created with their own cosmology. As such let's keep it distinct and retain that cosmology unique to it. On the same footing is the 4e PoL Nentir Vale setting which I'd prefer to stay its own thing, with its own cosmology, not part of the Wheel.As for any future settings, let the creators of those settings decide if they want to have them distinct unto themselves, or to be integrated into any shared cosmologies. I'm a big fan of the concept as in 2e Planescape, but not so much when you force settings into a different cosmology different to the one they had previously or for multiple editions already (see 4e's World Axis planes and its content rather aggressively pushed in various form into settings other than Nentir Vale).</blockquote>