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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 3797598" data-attributes="member: 11999">I'm really liking the sounds of this so far.  The old "Great Wheel" always seemed ultra dogmatic and rather bland to me.  Planescape was certainly not bland, but that was the tone of the setting and had nothing to do with the structure of the outer planes.  And it always seemed really dumb to me how the elven gods, Sune of the Forgotten Realms, and Chaotic Good gods from dozens of pantheons all hung out with the Greek gods.That came off as supremely arrogant and unnecessarily insulting.  Thanks. This was pretty much how the Astral Plane was set up in the D&D Companion Set (1985ish); there were no rigid alignment-based planes branching off from the Astral, only whatever planes the DM felt like putting into the game.I like this approach to cosmology; it's basically the same approach that Eberron, the 3e Forgotten Realms, and The Book of the Righteous all take.  The cosmology isn't designed to be all things to all possible gaming worlds -- its customized to each campaign setting to reflect its mythology.  The old Great Wheel cosmology was comprised of a mish-mash of thematically unrelated elements, many of which did not belong in a large number of campaign settings.</blockquote>