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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1716600" data-attributes="member: 16077">I agree with your intent - however, even 'planar structure' seems to imply a larger entity than just, say, the galaxy that contains Abeir-Toril, all of the other planets, and all of the different existences that are capable of being interacted with (celestial and infernal planes, etc.)  Considering that WoTC has published information stating that Greyhawk can be reached from Toril via the 'Plane of Shadow' still implies that they are part of the same universe...I dunno - I'm overly sensitive to this subject, maybe.  I simply explain the differences away to my players to be due to the (as-yet-undiscovered-in-their-world theory of relativity combined with a bit of string theory) - that the 'cosmology' looks differently to someone on Toril than it does to someone on Oerth because the observer is looking at something from a different frame of reference and that planar travel is possible because of wormholes (although they don't call them that, being as how science hasn't reached that level on either Oerth or Toril.)  Equally as useful and easy is Ed Greenwood's suggestion that both the Tree and the Wheel are merely incomplete human approximations of what the universe really looks like...</blockquote>