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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 615340" data-attributes="member: 2209">Here is my understanding and I can't back it up with page references right now but from a mishmash of planar stuff from 1e to present.You can astrally project (via spell or other means) onto the astral plane leaving your body behind and sending out your spirit. On the astral plane you can then go to a color pool which is a gateway to the outer planes. Going through the gateway you enter the first layer of an outer plane, the gateway planes, and you have a new body created. If your body is killed, your spirit goes back to your actual body.Outsiders and elementals summoned have sort of the same thing in reverse. They create a body on the material plane and their spirit returns to their home plane if they are "killed" on the material plane. This is why summoned creatures are rather blase about attacking to the death and why demons must be slain on their home plane to actually kill them.Call spells, gates and plane shifting works differently. The actual creature steps through and cannot be dispelled. Also if they die they actually die. It also bypasses the astral mechanism of getting to planes.Now for planes, take the nine hells, this is not one plane but nine separate infinite planes of Lawful Evil. Only one is directly accessible from the astral, but otherwise each is a distinct outer plane for purposes of plane shifting or whatnot.</blockquote>