[D&D/OGL] Are there too many planes?

flyingmice · February 11, 2016, 04:04:35 PM

Too many planes? Are you sure you aren't thinking of In Harm's Way: Wild Blue?

-clash

Old One Eye · February 11, 2016, 07:42:46 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;878456For starters, if you presume infinite prime material planes, you've pretty much got more than you could ever possibly use in any campaign right there.

The homebrew I have been playing with the past decade or so is only about 500 miles X 500 miles. Plenty for multiple campaigns, and only about half the places have even been touched.

Thornhammer · February 12, 2016, 01:32:12 PM

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For some reason "Double Hell" really amuses me.

As far as "too many planes" goes:

No, there aren't too many planes. Most campaigns I've played in never stray from the Prime Material. I really enjoyed the Manual of the Planes when I was a youngster, the descriptions of the different planes and their layers were fertile ground for imagination, even if I never did get to campaign in them.

RPGPundit · February 15, 2016, 01:20:30 AM

Quote from: Old One Eye;878497The homebrew I have been playing with the past decade or so is only about 500 miles X 500 miles. Plenty for multiple campaigns, and only about half the places have even been touched.

Well yeah, it all depends how local you want the scope of your campaign to be. You could run a whole campaign on a 12 mile hex if you were a mind to.

Old One Eye · February 15, 2016, 11:08:22 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;879021Well yeah, it all depends how local you want the scope of your campaign to be. You could run a whole campaign on a 12 mile hex if you were a mind to.

Correct. Which is why the question of whether there are too many planes is kind of silly to ask. It completely depends upon the needs of the campaign.

RPGPundit · February 17, 2016, 10:50:44 PM

Quote from: Old One Eye;879086Correct. Which is why the question of whether there are too many planes is kind of silly to ask. It completely depends upon the needs of the campaign.

I can't argue with that. For some games the D&D 'great wheel' would be far more planes than necessary, for others it would be far too few.

Omega · February 18, 2016, 07:32:00 AM

There was an article in Dragon that turned the elemental planes into a tesseract arrangement that was really neet and had all sorts of potential.

I tried something simmilar with the outer alignment based planes by placing a cube around the elemental tesseract. It made Planescape alot more crazy!

RPGPundit · February 19, 2016, 07:20:35 PM

The 3e Forgotten Realms book had a totally different planar structure from the great wheel. Never caught on much though, it seems.

cranebump · February 19, 2016, 07:35:44 PM

I keep saying...

There is only ONE plane...