Nellisir
Hero
The Books of Faith sound interesting. I've got some other of the Folkloric books, and frankly I wasn't that impressed so I stopped buying them.
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Help me build an OGC outer plane cosmology
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VelvetViolet
Adventurer
There are pregnant alleyways. That's pretty much the epitome of the New Weird. Maybe Escher architecture or fractal architecture would be more your forte?
Nellisir
Hero
That's gone right past me. Pregnant?
Escher, fractal, whatever. Sigil is clearly not infinite, or perhaps it is through some weirdness (pregnant alleyways?) but it's not called out as such. It goes around in a closed loop, and the edges...honestly, does it have edges? I thought it was open at the...up, so one could see the Spire crossing the sky above, but maybe it was a closed doughnut? I'll have to look it up. I'd rather an infinite, or near infinite, city that can hold Undermountain and the ruins beneath Penance, parks large enough for forest adventures, and so on. Without leaving the city.
I'm pretty sure that, at least as presented in 4e, it's closed. So you can walk in any direction and never reach an edge.
VelvetViolet
Adventurer
It was a plot point in Planescape: Torment to reach the lower ward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mJtn3IASM
Here's a very rough and incomplete draft of the outer planes, subject to change. I've included all the rivers of the upper and lower planes: Styx, Phlegethon, Lethe, Cocytus, Acheron, Aornis (or Avernus), Eunoe (Purgatorio), Eridanus and Oceanus. Not included is Yggdrasil (the World Tree/Tree of Life) or Yormungand (World Serpent). There will also be the Gulf of Azroi (see CP:BoP)
Nellisir
Hero
I just checked; I don't know about 4e, but in 3e it was definitely open. It's described as "like a tire", and the buildings on the edge don't have doors or windows looking out (you can get on the roof, but there's literally nothing to see). You look straight up, and you see the opposite side of the tire in an arc above you.
So, not infinite at all.
Nellisir
Hero
I'm a bit puzzled. Are you using the Book of Planes as a source to draw from, or are you just using everything in it and adding a few bits. It's starting to sound like the latter.
VelvetViolet
Adventurer
Yeah, I'm definitely planning on copying some of the planes from Book of the Planes, since it was released under the OGL. I've recently acquired a copy of the rare book "Gary Gygax's Cosmos Builder" and I'll be using it for ideas.
So what I want to do with the outer planes is have one for each of the different kinds of afterlives and pantheons in mythology. The Happy Hunting Grounds for the Plains Indians, Valhalla and Hel for the Norse, Limbo/Inferno and Purgatory and Paradise for Christianity, the millions of Hells of Chinese mythology, Asphodel Meadows and Elysium and Hades for the Greeks, etc. Plus other kinds of outer planes, nexus planes and planes-spanning structures like Yggdrasil and Jormungand.
So what I want to do with the outer planes is have one for each of the different kinds of afterlives and pantheons in mythology. The Happy Hunting Grounds for the Plains Indians, Valhalla and Hel for the Norse, Limbo/Inferno and Purgatory and Paradise for Christianity, the millions of Hells of Chinese mythology, Asphodel Meadows and Elysium and Hades for the Greeks, etc. Plus other kinds of outer planes, nexus planes and planes-spanning structures like Yggdrasil and Jormungand.
