Re: The New D&D Cosmology

>You forget that the Manual of the Planes also says that you may set up
your
>cosmology anyway you want and gives guidlines you can use to set it up.
The
>Great Wheel is just an example. So SJ is not kicked to the road side.

        Right, but I'm thinking more along canonical lines.

        If the canonical D&D cosmology makes it so that the only way to get
from Toril to Oerth is via the Plane of Shadow, then that means there's
very little chance of Spelljammer as we know and love it being resurrected
in any sort of official way.  At best, it could be resurrected as a
single-sphere campaign setting, with no way to Spelljam from that single
sphere to places like Toril.

        Well, actually, as we all know, it could get resurrected in full if
WotC thought there was money in doing so.  But I shudder to think of the
massive amount of retconning required to shoehorn "Spelljamming from Oerth
to Toril is possible" into the current cosmology.

        Oh, and speaking of the current cosmology, the official D&D FAQ
states in no uncertain terms that the Forgotten Realms cosmology (which
includes Toril itself as well as the godrealms of Toril) is not connected
in ANY WAY to any other canonical D&D Cosmology.  So if you want to stay
true to 3e canon, then not only can you not go from Oerth to Toril via
spelljamming, but you can't get from Oerth to Toril *at all*.

        AB