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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8232344" data-attributes="member: 2629">My main campaign setting has a wasteland continent (the size of Eurasia) that has thousands of portals to the Abyss.  The entire continent is plagued by fiends and their allies, and the terrain around each portal takes on the nature of the part of the Abyss connected to it (often for many , many miles).  Even the laws of nature can be suspended in these areas, creating zones of reverse gravity, darkness, strange weather, etc....  As my Abyss was created from the Hells when the Far Realm first started to corrupt the Universe, Demons tend to be more creepy and horrific than your 'out of the box' monstrosities.  They often overlap with Aberrations, which tend to have a flair inspired by Horror Movies like Hellraiser, Pan's Labrynth, etc... and are all a product of body horror in one fashion or another.  I obviously have not detailed all of the areas, but there are wide ranges of inspiration taken from D&D Lore, Movies, TV and Comics.  The portals appeared a thousand years ago in the midst of the most powerful nation in a vast world (12 times the size of Earth, with an equally large 'Dyson Sphere' style underdark).  Accordingly, many of these locations are centered around corrupted cities or feature locations (monasteries, churches, universities, etc...)  There is one last bastion of good that has been fighting a hopeless battle to reclaim the continent for a thousand years, but beyond that it is literally "Hell on Earth".  Archfiends, Demon Lords, and all sorts of terror pass back and forth through these portals freely.  Beyond the Good versus Evil fight, the Blood War spills onto that continent too, although the stakes are less than the Blood War in the Hells (My Abyss and 9 Hells are one plane, with the Blood War being fought by the Demons trying to reclaim the rift to the Far Realm at the center of Asmodeus' realm) because the losers just return to the Hells when they die on the Prime, rather than being recrafted into a Lemure/Nupperibo/Manes/Dretch as those that die in the Hells are.This zone has featured in the culmination of many of my campaigns.  It might be recovering a lost artifact, venturing into the hells via a specific gate, closing a particular gate, etc...  One feature of the area is that teleportation magic and planar magic, outside of the gates, does not work there.  That causes PCs a lot of problems.</blockquote>

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