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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaltab" data-source="post: 9561610" data-attributes="member: 6775806">I think the main thing is that many critics of the Great Wheel perceive it as full of useless symmetries that exist to give everything a direct opposite and every alignment plane an in-between step, even if that creates what is effectively dead space as far as 'is this usable for an adventure'.  Now this sort of worldbuilding may be up some people's allies--after all there are plenty of places too hostile for people IRL--but in terms of a game space I can see why some DMs prefer the designers not to waste space in the text and diagrams explainign something they don't need. As an aside... the World Axis is also symmetrical--the Material-Fey-Shadow symmetry as well as the Astral Sea/Elemental Chaos symmetry, but it was deliberately designed to that everything had potential conflicts and adventure hooks, even the Seven Heavens. So as I indicated earlier, to me the problem isn't symmetry but that quite a few of the outer planes aren't evocative enough that they need to exist as their own realm, at least in my opinion.</blockquote>