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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9238605" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>So... one of the kind of esoteric bits I've been considering is based on something Lars Torgesen, writer and designer of the -excellent- Roll Them Bones Gaming line, talked to me about on Discord... Outer Planes closer.</p><p></p><p>Rather than having elemental planes each independent of the Material Plane, they're a -part- of it. Like closer than the Mirror Planes. And then Heaven and Hell and such? Right outside the Material Plane. Practically touching it instead of being vastly distant planes lost somewhere in the Astral Sea.</p><p></p><p>Instead of being remote, the entities on the now-inner planes are acting to -protect- the Material Plane from the horrors beyond, since things from beyond must travel across their realms to reach the Material Plane. Which makes a dead god, and a desolated divine realm, a back door to all those delicious souls that the Heavens and Hells are fighting over. A gap in the defenses of the Material Plane through which monsters can slip in, and souls can slip out into the wider cosmos of the planes.</p><p></p><p>Anyone ever play Septerra Core? The Orrery of these planes looks something like that. Heaven, Hell, the various 'lesser' planes of alignment... all roiling around the Material as an incomplete shield.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lparchive.org/Septerra-Core/11-0017.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And once every (insert timeframe here) the planes fall into alignment to allow (insert freaky stuff here).</p><p></p><p>But then... put that into terms of spirits and animism, saints and heroes, and a small pantheon of traditional D&D style deities. You wind up with all the "Spiritual Entities" on nearly equal footing in day to day life. Sure Fox and Crow might not be as individually powerful as Zeus or whomstever, but they're -here-. Manifest. Real enough to touch. Which allows them to use their power more directly.</p><p></p><p>(Not that I intend to specifically use Fox and Crow or Zeus, just giving examples)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9238605, member: 6796468"] So... one of the kind of esoteric bits I've been considering is based on something Lars Torgesen, writer and designer of the -excellent- Roll Them Bones Gaming line, talked to me about on Discord... Outer Planes closer. Rather than having elemental planes each independent of the Material Plane, they're a -part- of it. Like closer than the Mirror Planes. And then Heaven and Hell and such? Right outside the Material Plane. Practically touching it instead of being vastly distant planes lost somewhere in the Astral Sea. Instead of being remote, the entities on the now-inner planes are acting to -protect- the Material Plane from the horrors beyond, since things from beyond must travel across their realms to reach the Material Plane. Which makes a dead god, and a desolated divine realm, a back door to all those delicious souls that the Heavens and Hells are fighting over. A gap in the defenses of the Material Plane through which monsters can slip in, and souls can slip out into the wider cosmos of the planes. Anyone ever play Septerra Core? The Orrery of these planes looks something like that. Heaven, Hell, the various 'lesser' planes of alignment... all roiling around the Material as an incomplete shield. [IMG]https://lparchive.org/Septerra-Core/11-0017.png[/IMG] And once every (insert timeframe here) the planes fall into alignment to allow (insert freaky stuff here). But then... put that into terms of spirits and animism, saints and heroes, and a small pantheon of traditional D&D style deities. You wind up with all the "Spiritual Entities" on nearly equal footing in day to day life. Sure Fox and Crow might not be as individually powerful as Zeus or whomstever, but they're -here-. Manifest. Real enough to touch. Which allows them to use their power more directly. (Not that I intend to specifically use Fox and Crow or Zeus, just giving examples) [/QUOTE]
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