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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 8109996" data-attributes="member: 22103">I did some brainstorming on a campaign that was a mashup of Planescape and Spelljammer, with lots of weird tech a la Chaositech and Arcana of the Ancients.Basically there was a massive cataclysm (war between an ancient civilization and elder beings/gods) that shattered the planes of existence. Realizing they couldn't defeat the elder beings, they attempted to create planar "prisons", but in doing so, royally screwed the planar pooch so to speak. Each plane became a self-contained sphere that "floats" is the phlogiston, some of which still imprison the elder beings.Each sphere is very unique and has a specific theme, sort of like Star Wars planets (water world, fire/lava, forest, desert, etc).Over millennia, people have started to uncover tech used by the ancient people, including spelljamming (allowing ships to travel through the phlogiston) and ways to detect gates, which are safe passages between the planes. Some powerful tech can also create gates for a short time.There are still only a few population centers, which are usually near stable gates. Passage through is heavily protected and regulated. Survival is hard, as food, water, and fuel,are hard to come by. Many factions vie for control of the gates and seek new sources of ancient tech. Some cults have arisen that seek to locate and release the elder gods from their prisons.It's very much a kitchen sink setting - Mad Max, Star Wars, Dying Earth, Cthulhu, etc, etc.Edit: I never really had any interest in crossing settings per se though, at least not traditional fantasy (like Greyhawk to FR for example). Transporting the PCs to Dark Sun would definitely be interesting though, especially if they were unaware of it beforehand (very Barsoom). It's definitely my preferred way to send hapless PCs to Ravenloft though! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil    :devilish:"  data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" /></blockquote>

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