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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1472091" data-attributes="member: 6398">I concur and suggest going one step further: Use "layers" to define the different "homelands" of the various alignments.  In addition, rather than having these layer's being like a cake (as represented in "planar art" prior to 3E), instead have them form patterns.  For instance, the layers of the Lawful plane are arrainged as an Orrery Plane, with the continual "orbit" shifting the dominance between the various factions of Law based on proximity to the Material Plane.  Being Lawful, this pattern will be as clockwork, dependable and accurately timed.  In contrast, the Chaotic layers would be akin to the Myriad cosmology, being clustered in an erratic fashion with different layers "bubbling up to the top" to become the first (and dominant) layer.  The ebb and flow of this "bubbling" makes it impossible to foresee which layer will be the next dominant layer, when the change will occur, and when the next change will follow (as befits Chaos). This could result in a system akin to the Astrology rules in Relics & Rituals II, except instead of being based on months, it is based on years, decades, and even centuries (possibly millenia if you have an all-elf party and you give them their 2E lifespans back, but that's definately a niche-campaign).</blockquote>