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<blockquote data-quote="La Bete" data-source="post: 982673" data-attributes="member: 6079">Greetings.The campaign I am currently running is a multi-planar campaign, which has had the players travel to several other alternate material planes. Before I started this campaign, I identified some issues which could cause problems - one of them being the &quot;shopping trip&quot; issue.Other potential issues:&quot;If it's Tuesday, Then it Must be Hades&quot; - too much travelling planes tend to make one blase about the whole thing.&quot;It's Kewl Here, Let's Stay&quot; - you spend days creating a cool campaign world, have them travel to another world that you've sketched out on the back of a napkin - guess which one they want to stay in?&quot;Que Hable Colt ManHunter?&quot; - It can be very frustrating for players to travel to another world, and then be reliant on the mage for the tongues spell, because the natives don't speak Common.Ways I resolved these.1. Make travel to other worlds difficult and/or dangerous. For example:Gates to other worlds require Gatekeys, which are generally difficult to get hold of, and often only loaned to the PCs.Keys normally are only keyed to one destination.Travelling through some gates can result in &quot;gatesickness&quot;, a temporary energy drain.2. Have the players &quot;rooted&quot; thoroughly in a small area (or village) in your campaign before they travel. Players will often be loathe to permantly abandon their friends and contacts.Also, have some of these worlds be undesirable to stay in long-term. I am using the magic version of the &quot;armaggedon threshhold&quot; - the common sci-fi concept that a large percentage of civiliations destroy themselves once they reach certain tech levels.3. Either give the party items which can translate, or in my case I used a variation of the cosmology - can't recall the name - from Manual of the Planes, where Material Planes 'clump' together. Nearby planes may have similarities - languages, races, histories etc, whereas faraway planes may be very different.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="La Bete, post: 982673, member: 6079"] Greetings. The campaign I am currently running is a multi-planar campaign, which has had the players travel to several other alternate material planes. Before I started this campaign, I identified some issues which could cause problems - one of them being the "shopping trip" issue. Other potential issues: "If it's Tuesday, Then it Must be Hades" - too much travelling planes tend to make one blase about the whole thing. "It's Kewl Here, Let's Stay" - you spend days creating a cool campaign world, have them travel to another world that you've sketched out on the back of a napkin - guess which one they want to stay in? "Que Hable Colt ManHunter?" - It can be very frustrating for players to travel to another world, and then be reliant on the mage for the tongues spell, because the natives don't speak Common. Ways I resolved these. 1. Make travel to other worlds difficult and/or dangerous. For example: Gates to other worlds require Gatekeys, which are generally difficult to get hold of, and often only loaned to the PCs. Keys normally are only keyed to one destination. Travelling through some gates can result in "gatesickness", a temporary energy drain. 2. Have the players "rooted" thoroughly in a small area (or village) in your campaign before they travel. Players will often be loathe to permantly abandon their friends and contacts. Also, have some of these worlds be undesirable to stay in long-term. I am using the magic version of the "armaggedon threshhold" - the common sci-fi concept that a large percentage of civiliations destroy themselves once they reach certain tech levels. 3. Either give the party items which can translate, or in my case I used a variation of the cosmology - can't recall the name - from Manual of the Planes, where Material Planes 'clump' together. Nearby planes may have similarities - languages, races, histories etc, whereas faraway planes may be very different. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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