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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8500512" data-attributes="member: 907">Its lack of structure. The Great Wheel is a very regimented cosmology, where there's a plane for each alignment, and then another plane where the alignments intersect, and one for each main element, and then where those elements intersect, and then where the elements intersect with the positive/negative planes. It's all very neat, and I really dislike neat. I also dislike alignments, and the Great Wheel is based around those. It's the kind of cosmology that does not just give you devils and demons, but also says "but there must be fiends from the other lower planes too!" and makes designers come up with daemons and demodands just to check boxes.The World Axis, on the other hand, is messy. The only structure is that there's the Elemental Chaos (with the Abyss inside of it), and then there's the Material plane and its dark/bright mirrors the Shadowfell and the Feywild, and then there's the Astral Sea with all sorts of wackiness in it. It's the kind of cosmology where you can imagine a doorway opening up to a vast void (that's somehow inhabitable), where there are stepping stones floating around that you can use to get to other doorways where things are weirder. It's the kind of cosmology that has room for Wonderland, or The Dark Dimension, or unaligned planes that are all about concepts like War or Love or Dreams. It allows for the Norse gods to have a bunch of planes arranged as a tree without that interfering with some other gods' heaven and hell.</blockquote>

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