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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5790375" data-attributes="member: 158">One thing always made me question the divisiveness and upset over the plane-changes between 2E, 3E, and 4E. If these are Metaphysical Planes, WHY do they have to have the exact same cosmology all the time? If as the core conceit of Planescape states "Mass belief is what shapes the planes," Why can't they go from era to era from stacked rectangles, to stacked rings, to layered spheres, to some mish-mash hodgepodge altogether? In fact, why aren't the planes and how to get to a particular one totally based on the perception of those viewing them?The vision of one Christian's version of Heaven and Hell is different from another Christian's Heaven, Hell, and Limbo, which is in turn different from a Norse believer's Hel and Valhalla, which is different from a Greek believer's belief of Hades, etc. So why not that this week, thanks to shifting mortal belief, you get to Tiamat by going to the first layer in the Nine Layers of hell, but twenty years from now, you get to her by going to the  Pit of Eternal Pain in Hell?Mortals don't even have the same perception of the afterlife in a few generations' time span in the real world, so why would they especially in a fantasy world  where the gods' emissaries show up in the creepy or brilliant flesh?</blockquote>