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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aesmael" data-source="post: 1753802" data-attributes="member: 22503">I would appreciate some help with planar travel for my setting. First, here is a summary of how they are connected:Prime4 Directions – Other Prime layers (Up, Down, Law-ward and Chaos)6 Directions – Elementals (Air, Earth, Fire, Negative, Positive, Water)3 Transitives – Astral, Ethereal and ShadowSometimes 1 Outer Plane in 3 Tints – Law or Chaos, depending on the edgeAt the Ends - ???Elementals4 Directions – Other Elemental Planes (Air:Water:Earth:Fire:Air All to Positive and Negative [Not from each other])1 Direction – A Prime layer2 Directions – Layers of the Same Elemental2 Transitives – Ethereal and ShadowAt the Ends - ???Ideal2 Directions – Other Ideal Layers, Up and Down1 Direction – The Prime2 Transitives – Astral and Shadow3 Tints – Law/Neutral/Chaos {Caster’s choice of alignment when travelling by spell, otherwise matching the traveller’s if coming by transitive}At the Ends - ???The Hollow1 Transitive – Shadow2 Layers – Up or DownAstralLaw, Prime, Chaos.The other TransitivesEtherealElementals, Prime.The Other TransitivesShadowLaw, [Elementals] Pri<The Hollow>me [Elementals], ChaosThe other TransitivesNow, I'm tired right now and there a probably things I did not put in the original document, so let me know if it is unclear. The Ideal is the outer planes. There are two, Law and Chaos, with about a hundred layers (think of it as 'many' rather than precision). Everything else lies between them (about ten Prime layers thick).Plane Shift will let you travel only between adjacent layers.Gate will let you travel more, I have not settled on how many yet.The Elemental planes are not subdivided 'horizontally' but they are 'vertically'. However, I do not want it to be possible to enter, say, Air from one plane and leave it onto another and make the transitives redundant. Currently thinking along the lines of the direction you enter limiting the direction(s) you can leave.The entry for Shadow is actually a good representation of the 'horizontal' structure. Imagine a hundred more identical lines on top of it and that's the universe.Everything on a given layer (except the Ideal) is coexistent, except that an elemental plane cannot be accessed directly from its opposite element.Edit - The prime layers (cells) are coterminous wert each other. The others are coexistent with all prime cells on that layer and each other, again excluding the opposing elements.Well, that may all be unnecessary. As I said, I'm tired. Anyway, what I mainly want is help with nonmagical ways to access the planes. Specifically, the transitives and elementals. For Shadow, for example, one might set up six lanterns hanging from the ceiling and set them spinning just so, and the interweaving of their light and shadows will create a way through. Not sure what kinds of skill checks should be required, though. For Fire a volcano or similar environment would be an appropriate location but again I am not sure what kind of ritual should be performed. Even less idea for the other planes.I think I have rambled for long enough now. Thanks for listening (assumption!)</blockquote>

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