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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8207158" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>I've often thought that the rigid hierarchy of planes published in The Dragon and later the 1E PHB was a mistake. If the planes were "stuff out there," only loosely grouped into "inner" and "outer" planes, with scholars disagreeing as to whether that's an actual distinction, it would allow a lot more flexibility for DMs and TSR/WotC creators.</p><p></p><p>That plane your characters stumbled into isn't new, there just wasn't a conjunction of the planes/they didn't walk down the right path through Faerie/didn't perform the ritual correctly/should have turned left at Albuquerque.</p><p></p><p>As DM, I want the freedom to spring things on my players like the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/the-stygian-library-remastered" target="_blank">Stygian Library</a> without it violating any sort of canon. My players are used to this, but I think it's a freedom every DM should be allowed.</p><p></p><p>And when it comes to a place like Ravenloft, which is apparently both a prison and has someone actively trying to trap people there, it ought to not be reachable in any sort of reliable fashion, given the schizophrenic nature of the place. (Also, the 2E idea that there are "scholars" who have lots of ideas about the Dark Powers and the nature of Ravenloft itself is eye-rolling. Something awful should happen to those scholars, whether it's a monster popping out of the mists to behead them or them suddenly waking up in Ravenloft itself, unable to share their smartypants theories with TSR writers.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8207158, member: 11760"] I've often thought that the rigid hierarchy of planes published in The Dragon and later the 1E PHB was a mistake. If the planes were "stuff out there," only loosely grouped into "inner" and "outer" planes, with scholars disagreeing as to whether that's an actual distinction, it would allow a lot more flexibility for DMs and TSR/WotC creators. That plane your characters stumbled into isn't new, there just wasn't a conjunction of the planes/they didn't walk down the right path through Faerie/didn't perform the ritual correctly/should have turned left at Albuquerque. As DM, I want the freedom to spring things on my players like the [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/the-stygian-library-remastered']Stygian Library[/URL] without it violating any sort of canon. My players are used to this, but I think it's a freedom every DM should be allowed. And when it comes to a place like Ravenloft, which is apparently both a prison and has someone actively trying to trap people there, it ought to not be reachable in any sort of reliable fashion, given the schizophrenic nature of the place. (Also, the 2E idea that there are "scholars" who have lots of ideas about the Dark Powers and the nature of Ravenloft itself is eye-rolling. Something awful should happen to those scholars, whether it's a monster popping out of the mists to behead them or them suddenly waking up in Ravenloft itself, unable to share their smartypants theories with TSR writers.) [/QUOTE]
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