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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6832422" data-attributes="member: 22779">I don't like planar stuff in D&D.  ((Heh heh - anyone who's seen me post on this has seen my soapbox schpiele before.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />))For me, the biggest issue with the planes is that they are completely divorced from whatever setting you start out on.  Whether you start from Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, or Dragonlance, the second you step into the Planes as a setting, it's the same Planes.  Same Asmodeus, same Demogorgon, same Sigil.  Same everything.  Which, to me, is far too bland and contradicts the settings in question.  Why on earth would there be an Asmodeus if you are playing a Dragonlance campaign?  There's no Hell in Krynn.  At least, not until the folks at TSR decided to force the Planes onto every single setting, regardless of whether it made sense or not.It should matter what setting you start from when you travel to the Planes.  There should not, IMO, be a single Planar Setting that applies to every other setting.  A Vrock in Dragonlance should be very different from a Vrock in Forgotten Realms.  When my Scarred Lands setting material has to reference the Great Wheel and everything that entails, I have a serious problem with The Planes.You can bet dollars to donuts that my Primeval Thule Campaign will ignore 100% of the Great Wheel material.** NOTE:  The above is 100% just my opinion and should not be taken as anything more than simply my own personal tastes.**</blockquote>

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