D&D terminology is a lot like accents, or dialects. You can often tell "where" someone is from, at least in part, by the language they use to describe things in the game. I hear a lot of 2e with 4e influences in @matthewmercer's accent.
Delightful.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 31, 2020
I might be wrong, of course, but Prime Material Plane says 2e to me, and Astral Sea is all kindsa 4e. I think Astral Sea is also pretty old school? But yeah, good observation. I know I've picked up a lot of dialects over the years
— Matt Colville? (@mattcolville) July 31, 2020
I don’t recall that name for the Astral Plane, at least in any sort of common usage, before 4e.
It may well have been prior, but that’s when it landed in my awareness at least. Pretty sure we invented “Astral Sea” for 4e. “Attack of opportunity” is a 3e giveaway. #wotcstaff
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) July 31, 2020
Attack of opportunity is something I have had to actively remove from my lexicon for work purposes 🙊 Heh. Answering questions and discussions in the big FB group helped me burn the older terms out.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 31, 2020
