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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2342499" data-attributes="member: 12328">A choice is only meaningful if there are possibly positive and negative consequences.  Whatever the PCs plans and however great the odds of success, there must be the chance for utter failure.  If they fail, the realms just become dark.  Heck, there's a whole campaign setting written on a similar premise.  The (surviving) PCs can still use it as a home base or starting point for a plane-hopping game.  It's just not all nice anymore.  Here are some other questions.  First, what reaction do the denizens of the plane of fire have to the PCs plan?  Maybe they don't want a bunch of undead orcus minions, or worse, rerouted to their home.  You could have some powerful fire outsiders very interested and willing to intervene in these actions.  Perhaps a fire god puts a stop to orcus' plans.  Perhaps it becomes a three-way struggle.  Maybe the PCs really need to pit orcus against the fire lords on the premise that the demon lord is trying to annex the fire plane.  Also, if all attempts to teleport into the realms are redirected to the plane of fire, how do the realms become the center of the next inter-planar campaign?  There's no going back to the realms once you leave, right?</blockquote>