Question about Kalamar and planar cosmologies

[Kaelynna]

Hello there,

Seeing all the praise about Kalamar, I may just have to give Kalamar a try.

I have a question. What official planar cosmology does Kalamar use? Does it use the Great Wheel or does it use something else?

Another question.

Does anyone know the official answer to this....Can a mortal being (through the use of magic) travel from one world to another (such as FR to Greyhawk or FR to Kalamar, etc.)

FR has its own cosmology now, so I didn't know the official rules for planar traveling now.

Thanks!

- Kae.

 

[Don21584]

Forget something?

Nevermind, I read it wrong. I thought you were saying magic travel not through the use of magic, travel. Oh well, that's what I get for only reading it a few times.

 

[Nightfall]

Sure you can!

As long as KoK has a plane of Shadow (cannot believe it wouldn't but there's always that chance) then it's possible to Shadow walk from FR to GH to KoK. (Course you could just skip over GH in that instance but that's just me)

 

[kenjib]

KoK doesn't really include a planar cosmology in the setting book as far as I can tell, and since it's an official D&D setting, this means that it probably just uses the official D&D cosmology from Greyhawk/Manual of the Planes. If having a unique planar cosmology is an important selling point to you for a campaign you might want to consider this.

There's no reason whatsoever why you couldn't use just about any cosmology with it, though. I'm sure a mortal being could find a way to travel between worlds if that's how you want to run your campaign, but I would imagine such occurances to be very rare and special events.

 

[Kichwas]

Essentially as it makes no references to that subject you can assume the planer cosmologyu is whatever the DM decides it is.

Which means that for most gamers it will probably be the default ideas presented in Manual of the Planes.

But you could for instance... give it the planer cosmology of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.

And both options would slide into it with no difficulty.

 

[Nightfall]

Well I know this JUST me, but as fan of Demon Princes, and one in particular, IF you use the default cosmology for the Planes...would it be possible for a Demon Prince like a certain Horned Guy with a nice skull tipped wand, to maybe influence the way Kalamar might develop? I mean this would seem to be IDEAL ground for him and maybe a few of his fellow Demon Princes to get some followers. Perhaps even make themselves gods in their own right...

Any thoughts on this you Kooky Kokers?

 

[Reprisal]

Any thoughts on this you Kooky Kokers?

Heh, it might help if I knew who the heck you were talking about.

Still, I do use the default cosmology and will continue to do so until either I figure something better out, or the company itself changes things around... and even then, I'll probably scrutinize it before I accept it.

 

[Nightfall]

Okay fine...I'll call his name...

I'm talking about Orcus, the Lord of the Undead. I figure him and maybe even Demogorgon MIGHT try something here since it seems like this would be GOOD ground to try out some of their schemes.

Think this world can handle a Death Knight or two?

 

[Reprisal]

Think this world can handle a Death Knight or two?

Oh, definately, I can see Death Knights in the Khydoban Desert, which is rumoured to hide within its dunes a great city of the undead. I believe they're a powerful undead type, right? If so, I would probably make them fairly infrequent, though they would powerful players in the scheme of things.

 

[Nightfall]

Not sure I'd use the word powerful...

Powerful is good start... I perfer the description: Implaceable foes, Death Incarnate, The Baddest of the Bad, to at least GIVE some idea of their power. Course I've been fond of Death Knights since the start of 2nd. They were originally talked about in 1st edition.