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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thelordofthemorning" data-source="post: 8438023" data-attributes="member: 6811375">So, one question, because this is something about how WotC/the Great Wheel is doing things in 5e that really bugs me.Is there an implication or assumption that all worlds in the multiverse use the same planes cosmology, or not?  Like maybe they are made of the same "stuff, like generic upper/lower planes spirit material, or the concept of fire, but are the specific upper and lower planes and elemental planes, etc. allowed to be different and only connect to one or a handful of material worlds?  Can each setting have their own elemental plane of fire that is different and has no connection to the elemental plane of fire for another world, and still have those worlds inhabit the same multiverse?  Are different worlds able to have different numbers of planes, and different organizations of those planes, resulting in radically different individual cosmologies (think the Great Wheel, the original Dragonlance Planes which were not the Great Wheel, and Eberron for example) and still coexist in this same multiverse?  Like maybe one world has 4 elementals planes, and another has 4 different elemental planes, and another has only one elemental chaos that is not divided into separate planes at all?  Or one world that is based entirely on good vs. evil, and another based on law vs. chaos Moorcock style?  And maybe another recreating the 9 realms of Norse mythology.Sorry for getting a bit rambley there, but I guess what it ultimately boils down to is, how flexible is it.  Are we allowed to let our creativity run free in designing our own worlds and still have them feel like they are a valid and accepted part of the standard level up multiverse (yes I realize you can always ignore lore and do your own thing, but it I still prefer for the official framework to be flexible enough to support that creativity without you having to do your own thing)?  Because the 5e Great Wheel and what WotC is doing now, they don't allow for that, and I'm really hoping level up does.</blockquote>

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