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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 6132409" data-attributes="member: 1231">First of all, let me premise this thread with this: Don't do it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> That said, I was reading the first several pages of the Planescape thread and I had an idea that I just wanted to throw out there as a conversational piece: What if we took inspiration from the genesis of the Eberron campaign setting, the campaign setting search, and iterated on that for advancing the metaplot? Have an "Eberron Metaplot Search" with a few basic rules: Keith Baker may not enter (and maybe not judge) because he is too authoritative on the issue for this experiment to function properly, and the base year cannot be advanced by a number of years greater than that between the Day of Mourning and the default year of the campaign setting, which I believe is four. The final result would be more or less decided by fans themselves, perhaps by some kind of ranked ballot.With this method you could probably weed out the things most fans of other established settings hated about their metaplot advancements: setting changing apocalypses. Though people would be free to submit metaplots that have those; they would just be unlikely to be selected. You would get four main categories of metaplots: date is before 1000 YK and there has yet to be an "apocalypse"; date is before 1000 YK and there has already been an "apocalypse"; date is after 1000 YK and there has yet to be an apocalypse; and date is after 1000 YK and there was an apocalypse when the millennium turned. The winner would, I think, probably come from the first group, but I would not rule out the third out of hand.Other than that, there would still be a division between metaplots where somewhat major things happen (i.e. some characters die, other emerge) and those where things have remained on the razor's edge without falling off, where perhaps the pressure has been ratcheted up in some places but they have no boiled over. I think there would be a lot of potential to see great play between those with cool ideas and those who are skillful at manipulating the setting without changing its core much at all.It would be interesting to see the result I think, and compare the reaction to those that other settings' changed have incurred.</blockquote>

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