Re: The New D&D Cosmology

>From:    Afterburner <aburner@???.com>
>  >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*.

I'd say get used to deciding on your own, in a gaming world where D&D
is a setting no longer supported by written material. WotC is going
the way of the Dodo, Hasbro won't keep it running 'for the game' when
it stops making profit. They'll close it down. The layoffs, the
reduction in services (like merging Polyhedron and Dungeon) all of
these things point to WotC going down, it is suspiciously familiar to
those who recall TSR's nose dive.

Now, with this new d20 stuff I doubt '3e' will disappear, but by
definition that cannot be 'canon'.

So in that sense, it's irrelevant, even those who wish their games to
remain 'canon' will no longer have the option.
--
"We sleep safely in our beds, only because rough men stand guard in
the night, ready to visit violence upon those who would do us harm."
H.G. Wells.

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer.3@???.edu
Phd Candidate, History, Ohio State University
Instructor, Humanities, Columbus State Community College