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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1460171" data-attributes="member: 2844">Upper Planes:  It definitly depends on the person.  Even though Mt. Celestia is a wonderful place, if you have a wife you miss, or children you think still need guidence, or a duty you feel strongly about, you'll probably want to come back.  Someone that goes to Arcadia, or the Seven Heavens, or to a lesser extent Bytopia is probably going to be the kind of person that feels strong comtiments (being generally lawful and good).  On the other hand, you may have been an old dwarven man in your life, unable to still fight orcs and goblins as your god Clanggedin Silverbeard would have wanted.  Now, in his realm in Arcadia, you're perfectly happy to continue so again, in Silverbeard's endless assaults on Acheron.  Or what if you're good, but neutral or chaotic?  Though chaotics and neutrals can still have strong senses of duty, it's less common among them as it is among lawfuls.  But still people might miss their loved ones, or want to avenge an unjust death.  However, your average peasant will probably find the afterlife more to his liking than the living world.  The Upper Planes are generally good places to live, and those that are full of battle and danger exist only to give people that are good a place to enjoy in the afterlife.  Sure, the residents of Mt. Clanggedin might fight a lot, but they also have big victory celebrations.  They "live out" some of the best parts of war.  Whatever your appropriate afterlife, if you're on the Upper Planes, you probably like it better than being a peasant or a petty merchant.  Even a king or a general probably likes being close to his god, if he were a True Believer.The planes of conflict (neutrality) are a bit different.  Very few are truely neutral in regards to good/evil.  They are Mechanus, Limbo, and the Outlands.  The ohters are at least tinged with a morality, like Ysgard, which is mainly chaotic, but a slightly good, or Acheron, which is mainly lawful but a bit evil.  Some of these kind of blur the edges.  Arcadia is a "border" plane in this regard, but is a rather nice place.  Ysgard is also a border good plane, but isn't very nice at all, unless you just love battle.  (Remember, you get deposited on the plane most closely matching your alignment if you don't worship a god.  Though I'd make exceptions every now and then, a chaotic person that was only marginally good is going to get dumped on Ysgard, even if they weren't generally battle-prone).  Acheron is livable as a border plane, but Pandemonium is downright horrible.  Unless you're insane, you're going to hate it (though you'll go insane quick enough).  Mechanus is a very nice place if you're into law and order.  Limbo is the same way if you're a chaos-lover.  The Outlands, being the meeting place of all the planes, has a bit of everything.  Every soul that was neutral can find a place to his liking there.  So as far as the neutral planes go, it depends on the plane and the person.  Who wouldn't want a rescue from Pandeomonium?  But on the other hand, a resident of Acheron may enjoy the senseless slaughter.As for the Lower Planes, I doubt anyone would want to hang out there, if they didn't worship a god, and weren't particularly powerful in life.  Pretty much everyone ends up in a sorry state.  If you're a Gray Waste larva, a Nine Hells lemure or a Abyssal dretch your life sucks.  You may one day become a Pit Fiend, but it ain't gonna be soon.  Assumedly, Ghereleths and Yugoloths have similar larval states as well (though the Yugoloth topic is hotly debated!).  Either way, life in the Lower Planes generally sucks.  On the other hand, if you were faithful to your God, he might have a nice afterlife for you.  Did you worship Set and do a damn good job of it in life?  He may make you into a Minion of Set, in which case you're practically in paradise with your newfound powers.  Are you now a proxy of Loviatar?  Inflicting pain on all the lesser worshipers is a great afterlife for you!So, again, it depends.  This time it depends on if they worshiped a god, what plane they went to, and waht their predilection in life was.</blockquote>

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