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There isn't really "the universe", but a handful of official universes and all the universes created by innumerable running and finished campaigns. D&D isn't a

by Taywee 4y ago

There isn't really "the universe", but a handful of official universes and all the universes created by innumerable running and finished campaigns. D&D isn't a game, and doesn't have a single canonical universe. It's a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe. That said, the movie takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting. No idea how faithful it is to that.

koboll 4y ago
Forgotten Realms is definitely its own universe with its own canon and everything, and apparently the movie is pretty faithful to it.
dragonwriter 4y ago
> There isn’t really “the universe” There really is in that the explicit default setting for D&D/5e is the Forgotten Realms, though other settings are supported. There also really is in that all of the official D&D settings are part of a single connected multiverse (with interactions between them in the canon.) > D&D isn’t a game, and doesn’t have a single canonical universe. Yes it is, and yes, it has a single canonical multiverse. (It can also be used outside of canonical settings, and frequently is.) > It’s a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe. There are published TTRPG systems that take that approach in the core (GURPS, HERO system, FATE, FUDGE, …the list is actually quite long.) D&D, however, isn’t one of them in its current edition. Some versions have had a genre-tied core without an explicit default setting [0], but the current version isn’t one of them. [0] At least, on the level that the Forgotten Realms is for 5e. I think every version since AD&D/1e has had an official description of the multiverse, including the canonical inner and outer planes (the latter being the domains of the gods, etc.), so in that sense have had a “default setting” on the grandest level.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
  The Mann Shorts YouTube channel takes this to an absurd extreme by using the "D&D engine" to power any random scenario they want.
drewcoo 4y ago
> It's a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe. And many of the universes don't really follow any of that so strictly either. It's kinda like agile. And from my perspective, it's just as often done wrong, but I'm an old gamer who dislikes munchkining. :-)

by Taywee 4y ago

koboll 4y ago

Forgotten Realms is definitely its own universe with its own canon and everything, and apparently the movie is pretty faithful to it.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> There isn’t really “the universe” There really is in that the explicit default setting for D&D/5e is the Forgotten Realms, though other settings are supported. There also really is in that all of the official D&D settings are part of a single connected multiverse (with interactions between them in the canon.) > D&D isn’t a game, and doesn’t have a single canonical universe. Yes it is, and yes, it has a single canonical multiverse. (It can also be used outside of canonical settings, and frequently is.) > It’s a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe. There are published TTRPG systems that take that approach in the core (GURPS, HERO system, FATE, FUDGE, …the list is actually quite long.) D&D, however, isn’t one of them in its current edition. Some versions have had a genre-tied core without an explicit default setting [0], but the current version isn’t one of them. [0] At least, on the level that the Forgotten Realms is for 5e. I think every version since AD&D/1e has had an official description of the multiverse, including the canonical inner and outer planes (the latter being the domains of the gods, etc.), so in that sense have had a “default setting” on the grandest level.

NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
The Mann Shorts YouTube channel takes this to an absurd extreme by using the "D&D engine" to power any random scenario they want.

drewcoo 4y ago

> It's a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe. And many of the universes don't really follow any of that so strictly either. It's kinda like agile. And from my perspective, it's just as often done wrong, but I'm an old gamer who dislikes munchkining. :-)