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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2825136" data-attributes="member: 9646">This is what I intend to do somewhat. There are places where the boundaries between the planes are weaker. There summoning rituals have better chances of success, and gates may exist. Gates may be, or maybe not like magical doors. I like a Moorcock like unbreakable crystal door, that requires a special key to open, and has some weird characteristics. But I also like the place where you can go from one plane to the other when the stars are right and some specific rituals are performed. In any case, a passage to a lower plane will be deep underground, and to an upper plane high on a mountain. Indeed these books look good. Nonetheless, at 50$ the two books I will wait before buying them.Excellent suggestions. I will use them! That, or as one goes lower, magic is more difficult, if not impossible, so casting a Plane Shift to go down may be easy, but to come back up may be imposible!I like the Snorri thing. Evil Duergar-like dwarves in the lower plane looks fine, and yes as NPCs only. On the other hand, there won't be drow per se. It was just to describe their typical personality, not skin-color and special powers. The elves of my campaign, Liosalfar and Dockalfar will just be slightly modified compared to PHB elves. Agreed that I need to think hard about Astral and Ethereal in this cosmology. I am not sure to understand your idea about the Astral though.Ah yes. I must remember with this cosmology that lower plane is not specifically tied to evil, and upper plane not specifically tied to good. Fact is that those imprisoned in the lowest plane actually came from the highest ones. They could be like angels who rebelled against God, except they would be more like great spirits who rebelled against the overall harmony and order of things, wanting to pursue personnal power and freedom to the detriment of everything else. The loyal spirits would have banished them in the lowest plane. But the lowest plane is not inherently evil. It's just the farthest away from "God", it's a place that's naturally low on resource, naturally slow and ridden with ignorant beings, who live in a "thick" world, not a fluid one. Then, the presence of rebel spirits in the lower planes (demons), may have somewhat corrupted the place (at least locally). About elementals and the like, I think they will be some types of spirits/demons. Those in the lower planes are less sentient and less magical, so they are golem-like elementals. In the upper planes they are more aware and magical, so are more genie-types.</blockquote>

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