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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6067505" data-attributes="member: 6669384"><p>Thinking about this some more...In the setup story, the adventurers who discovered the gate were reported to have died on the spot.</p><p></p><p>Relating this to Plato's writings on the subject, he suggested that we saw only shadows of reality because we were trapped within our physical forms. Suppose they didn't die, at least not right away. Instead they left their physical forms behind, as per <em>Astral Projection</em>. They only died because there was no one to give their bodies water and protection while they were off on their adventure.</p><p></p><p>That would work well for my story, mechanically, since they'll need to leave someone behind to tend to their bodies while they're away. It would also give me a way to control how much "paragon" loot they bring back to the Material plane.</p><p></p><p>So this "Ideal" plane is a near-upper plane, higher than the Material, yet not quite the realm of the gods. </p><p></p><p>In this place the forests are deep and rich, the game abundant but always a challenge to track and bring down. The roads are works of art, with every stone perfectly fitted to all of it's neighbors, as if nature had shaped it for no other purpose. The air is clear, allowing a man to see for miles without losing detail, and when it rains... Well, as Plato put it, I'm trying to describe the world to men who have only known shadows.</p><p></p><p>And it's fitting that the only way to describe it all would be through poetry, because that carries not only the hard facts, but also the feeling of the place.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to like writing this one up...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6067505, member: 6669384"] Thinking about this some more...In the setup story, the adventurers who discovered the gate were reported to have died on the spot. Relating this to Plato's writings on the subject, he suggested that we saw only shadows of reality because we were trapped within our physical forms. Suppose they didn't die, at least not right away. Instead they left their physical forms behind, as per [I]Astral Projection[/I]. They only died because there was no one to give their bodies water and protection while they were off on their adventure. That would work well for my story, mechanically, since they'll need to leave someone behind to tend to their bodies while they're away. It would also give me a way to control how much "paragon" loot they bring back to the Material plane. So this "Ideal" plane is a near-upper plane, higher than the Material, yet not quite the realm of the gods. In this place the forests are deep and rich, the game abundant but always a challenge to track and bring down. The roads are works of art, with every stone perfectly fitted to all of it's neighbors, as if nature had shaped it for no other purpose. The air is clear, allowing a man to see for miles without losing detail, and when it rains... Well, as Plato put it, I'm trying to describe the world to men who have only known shadows. And it's fitting that the only way to describe it all would be through poetry, because that carries not only the hard facts, but also the feeling of the place. I'm going to like writing this one up...:) [/QUOTE]
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