Jacob Lewis
Ye Olde GM
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I acknowledge that the World Axis Cosmology is simpler than the Great Wheel. However, it is still fairly complicated. While it does look like 5 planes of existence in that display, it's more (it has the Abyss, Nine Hells, Pandemonium, Carceri, and other planes still. The Elemental Chaos and Astral Sea are more like Transitive Planes/Planar Locations that the other planes of existence are found in). I do prefer the World Axis to the Great Wheel, but it's not as simple as my tastes, and I did borrow a bit from it in my explanation of a possible simplified cosmology in the OP (Astral Sea with spelljammers in it, moving the cosmology from wheel-shaped to more "axis" based, etc).
Perhaps Odrheim? From Wikipedia: "The Old Norse theonym Óðr derives from an identical noun, meaning 'mind, wit, soul, sense' but also 'song, poetry', which in turn stems from Proto-Germanic *wōðaz, a substantive of an adjective meaning 'possessed, inspired, delirious, raging'." It is the plane of the soul, but also the plane of song, poetry, and sagas.I need a different name from godsheim. It was a stop gap which has stuck around in my notes but I'm not actually too fond of it.
I think your idea is fine! One single good afterlife and one single bad afterlife make sense. I am surprised by Shadowfell being the "lawful" place but ok. It's not clear if you mean Shadowfell and Feywild to also be afterlife.Any thoughts or suggestions?
The problem is, no, it really isn't an optional "cross pollination" when you start using modules. If you do all homebrew adventures, all the time, then great, you can pick and choose. But, as soon as you pick up a module, if it goes planar, it's 100% Planescape all the time. So, no, I disagree @Lyxen that it's just optional.
There are those of us who would love to play planar adventures without having to deal with all the crap that comes with it.
Well sometimes a minor adaptation is all you need. We played Lord of the Iron Fortress in 3ed as if Acheron was just an alternate material world rather than an afterlife, and there wasn't much to change in practice.The problem is, no, it really isn't an optional "cross pollination" when you start using modules. If you do all homebrew adventures, all the time, then great, you can pick and choose. But, as soon as you pick up a module, if it goes planar, it's 100% Planescape all the time. So, no, I disagree @Lyxen that it's just optional.
There are those of us who would love to play planar adventures without having to deal with all the crap that comes with it.