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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6397177" data-attributes="member: 87792">An excellent point - and one that I hadn't spotted.  But on thinking about it the reason is obvious.  And once again it comes down to my pet hate in D&D Worldbuilding.  The Great Wheel.  Yes, I could remove Bytopia or The Happy Hunting Ground/The Beastlands/Narnia without too much trouble.  But for The Great Wheel with its implacable symmetry to make sense I'd have to replace them with something else of my own devising or The Great Wheel ceases to be round.  If I'm using The Great Wheel, I need sixteen spokes for the sixteen outer alignments and compromises and I probably need The Plane of Concordant Opposition.If we even go by the 3.5 Realms World Tree - or the 4e World Axis - this ceases to be an issue.  You can put whatever you like in there.  But The Great Wheel, by virtue of its symmetry mandating the existence of planes turns the planes from resource into setting. Their existence and nature is a logical consequence.</blockquote>