What's your campaign world's cosmology?

[dave_o]

Here is mine - The barrier is transit plane where that the dead has to cross over to the Wheel of the Gods, each god has their own realm.

Is the pentacol formed by the demon planes intentional?

As well as the pentagram, for the elemental planes?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Is the pentacol formed by the demon planes intentional?

As well as the pentagram, for the elemental planes?

Yes There is a ley line system that crossess over the material plane.

 

[Arnwyn]

I use...

The Great Wheel.

 

[Nephet]

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2) An Archmage from Oerth enters a high-RF version of 21st century Earth. A few days later the delusional schizophrenic who thinks he used to have the Real Power is living rough, sleeping in the gutter while panhandling for change and burbling about Wishes and Plane Shifts and such nonsense. If lucky he may eventually get a job flipping burgers, or more likely end up institutionalised.

So that's what happened to me.

 

[Nephet]

The nature of the universe defined by the sentient beings that inhabit it. Each kingdom or group of people shape it by what they believe to be the true nature of the universe. If the beliefs are strong enough, they can manifest actual beings that become free-willed deities.

 

[Blue Sky]

My campaign has a slightly different cosmology, based mostly off of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.

I have one "real" world, with several secondary worlds, each representing the way the world could have gone if a major crux in time had gone another way. For example, in one world, the elves won the Dream War, and now hold the humans as nothing more than slaves. Individual humans and halflings exist in each world at the same time, while dwarves, elves, and true orcs only exist in one world at a time.

The physical worlds are connected by the world of dreams, taken almost whole cloth from the Wheel of Time. Humans, half-humans, and halflings sometimes touch the world of dreams in their sleep, and whatever happens to them while they're there (wounds, broken bones, etc.) happens to them in the real world. Random thoughts, hidden desires, etc. have a way of coming true in the world of dreams for these mortals that end up there. Some mortals (humans, half-humans, and halflings) learn to control their thoughts while in the world of dreams, and can even learn to enter the dreamworld at will. Any spell effect that references the astral plane, instead refers to the dreamworld IMC. This is also the homeland of elves, dwarves, and true orcs, who can enter the real world through gates and other magic.

Since the Dream War, parts of the dream world "seep" out, and in certain areas enough has entered the real world for the thoughts of sentient races to affect the world in small ways. This is how psionics were discovered, and has led to "gods" forming from the faith of their followers, though these gods are rarely more powerful than powerful fiends or celestials.

Above the world of dreams lies the plane of light, the land of Seraphim (celestials). Good clerics and adepts draw their power from this plane.

Below the world of dreams is the plane of shadow, where fiends cavort, and evil clerics draw their power from.

I don't have an ethereal, or astral plane, nor any of the elemental planes.

 

[the Jester]

I use a modified version of the 2E Cosmology, that includes The Great Great Ring, the Cordant Planes And Quasi-Para-Elemental Planes

Because, IMO, you can never have too many planes. I felt that the major downside to the 3E MotP was that they took out planes, rather than adding in more. I wanted cordant planes, quasi-para-elemental planes and the ordial plane made official! I certainly didn't want to lose the paras!

Brilliant stuff! I like it a lot!

I always wondered about quasi-paraelemental planes...