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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 284399" data-attributes="member: 4049">Indeed...Agreed.  I do think there are places where lower level play can be found out in the Planes and I think Sigil, the Outlands, and the Gatetowns took care of that (don't remember if there were equivalent planar places in 1ed).  However, I never really saw any of the Outer Planes, and most of the Inner Planes (except maybe Air) as really being conducive to lower-level play.  Besides, in my mind, the Planes are about "heaven and hell."  There's so much to do in the "mundane" world and it's in the mundane world (in my campaigns) that PCs learn that the real power, the power of ideas, thoughts, and truths, is beyond...One is a lesser god and has his realm in Cania.  Another is an intermediate goddess and has her realm in Phlegethos.  The final one, and the most dangerous god in my cosmology is a Greater god and has his realm in Nessus.  I've toyed with the idea that he's an extention of "my" Asmodeus, but I'm not certain I want to do that.  As it stands, he has a non-aggression pact with Asmodeus and the other Lords (in fact, they're allies of a sort), has a lovely relationship with Tiamat, and has no idea of Asmodeus' true nature.  In my campaign, one of my three major pantheons control certain areas.  Interloper entities, like the Lords of the Nine (really only Asmodeus), some of the Demon Princes (Demogorgon, and Orcus), and other god-like entities (Bahamut, Tiamat, the Elemental Lords, etc) have small cults since they really don't have a "right" to poach worshippers.  Furthermore, these entities are "greater" than traditional gods in that they have concerns across multiple cosmologies.  Personally, I've never understood how entities like these, who are spread over many different Prime Material Planes, can be ranked so lowly...  What are your thoughts on that?When do we expect that to happen?  DO we expect that to happen?Anyway, it's been fun!  I hope this has been "pruned" to a reasonable length?</blockquote>

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