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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 4583155" data-attributes="member: 553">Sooo.... making fantasy locations usable by the DM as a place PCs can actually adventure is somehow not imaginative? Inventing boring, homogeneous places the PCs can't go to shows imagination?  How is having a plane which is just where creatures of a particular type come from and PCs can't visit more cool than someplace those same creatures still come from, but the PCs can travel to? Nothing is lost, so many possibilities gained!My own 3E campaign's cosmological history has elementals cast more as antagonists, wanting to rip the world apart and return it to it's primordial essences. If I wanted to have the high level PCs take the fight to an Archelemental demigod, my options were pretty limited. I mean, why would a powerful fire deity dwell in a location that's relatively safe for adventurers to attack? More logically, he'd reside at the "center" of the plane, the superheated core. As mentioned, PCs would have to make themselves immune to fire, and hence totally immune to most of the attacks which creatures of the plane use, which is boring. Also, you know what I'd always have on hand as a powerful resident of an elemental plane to deal with Prime Material interlopers? Dispel Magic. Save or Die. Poof.The Elemental Chaos, however, lets me create fiery locations for the bad guys to reside without them being completely just fire. Making the Elemental Planes someplace PCs can actually explore and interact with isn't tantamount to making them just another a "dungeon". How is being freed to create really cool locations with fantastic features based on the churning chaos less imaginative then setting things either in a pocket of air or solid element? Regarding the World Axis: I don't think people see how flexible it actually is. It's really just a stripped down Great Wheel: Prime Material, Astral Plane and the Inner Elemental Planes, with a couple of co-existing planes. Add the Outer Planes back in as Domains, and there you go.Making the domains in the Astral Sea independent "widgets" was a great move. Now one can keep the core model and use whatever "Outer Planes" they desire. I'm sure this is the approach they'll be using for Eberron. So, yeah, all published settings will use the World Axis model, but they'll still be highly customizable and unique.</blockquote>

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