Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Which material planes do you like in your cosmology?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8503108" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>In our family game we're mostly adventuring in the Forgotten Realms (with a bunch of non-FR locations tossed in, due to having run some adventures not set in any specific setting). Soon the PCs will have capabilities to travel to other planes, and being myself a fan of planar adventures I already had the itch many times to lead them somewhere else. This time however I am more intrigued by the idea of having several material/mortal worlds rather than (or before) visiting the usual inner and outer planes.</p><p></p><p>Thinking out loud with myself, these are the worlds I am already quite sure I'd like to have in my cosmology:</p><p></p><p><strong>Abeir-Toril</strong> (Forgotten Realms): our starting point and world of origin for our current PCs</p><p></p><p><strong>Rokugan</strong>: I know this well and liked a lot playing and DMing it, but I am aware it will feel very different if the PCs are outsiders visiting it; still, it could work as a pilot to spark interest in playing a whole campaign in it</p><p></p><p><strong>Athas</strong> (Dark Sun): never played it and I like how distinct feel it has compared to other fantasy worlds, with focus on psionics and no religion </p><p></p><p><strong>Ravenloft</strong>: a sure bet! strong unique feel</p><p></p><p>I am undecided on whether I should bother with other famous fantasy worlds such as <strong>Oerth</strong> (Greyhawk), <strong>Mystara</strong> and <strong>Krynn</strong> (Dragonlance). Aren't they already a bit too similar to Forgotten Realms? What difference would it make to run a certain adventure in Oerth instead of Faerun, for example? ToEE is an old favourite adventure of mine that is officially set in Greyhawk, but I don't see why it could be set in Faerun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Eberron</strong> is a special case. I never liked it, but it definitely feels different than other worlds! It probably deserves to at least exist in my cosmology. </p><p></p><p>Then in the last year or so I've been looking with interest at those MtG worlds that are being published for D&D. I definitely do NOT want to incorporate the whole MtG cosmology, but a small bunch of worlds have that distinct feel I like for settings an adventure there: <strong>Amonkhet</strong>, <strong>Zendikar</strong>, <strong>Ixalan</strong>, <strong>Theros</strong>, <strong>Shandalar</strong>, <strong>Ravnica</strong>. Perhaps some of these are a bit too similar with regions already part of other chosen worlds, for instance Ixalan and Amonkhet might be too close to the Maztica and Mulhorand regions of FR, and <strong>Innistrad</strong> too similar to Ravenloft?</p><p></p><p>In addition to all this, I had the tendency in the past to cover several outer planes of Planescape with the ambiguity of being not so different from alternate material worlds, for example <strong>Arcadia</strong> and <strong>Acheron</strong>. I can play with some ambiguities and don't need to have everything clearly defined. </p><p></p><p>So what alternate material planes/worlds are you using together in the same campaign setting?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8503108, member: 1465"] In our family game we're mostly adventuring in the Forgotten Realms (with a bunch of non-FR locations tossed in, due to having run some adventures not set in any specific setting). Soon the PCs will have capabilities to travel to other planes, and being myself a fan of planar adventures I already had the itch many times to lead them somewhere else. This time however I am more intrigued by the idea of having several material/mortal worlds rather than (or before) visiting the usual inner and outer planes. Thinking out loud with myself, these are the worlds I am already quite sure I'd like to have in my cosmology: [B]Abeir-Toril[/B] (Forgotten Realms): our starting point and world of origin for our current PCs [B]Rokugan[/B]: I know this well and liked a lot playing and DMing it, but I am aware it will feel very different if the PCs are outsiders visiting it; still, it could work as a pilot to spark interest in playing a whole campaign in it [B]Athas[/B] (Dark Sun): never played it and I like how distinct feel it has compared to other fantasy worlds, with focus on psionics and no religion [B]Ravenloft[/B]: a sure bet! strong unique feel I am undecided on whether I should bother with other famous fantasy worlds such as [B]Oerth[/B] (Greyhawk), [B]Mystara[/B] and [B]Krynn[/B] (Dragonlance). Aren't they already a bit too similar to Forgotten Realms? What difference would it make to run a certain adventure in Oerth instead of Faerun, for example? ToEE is an old favourite adventure of mine that is officially set in Greyhawk, but I don't see why it could be set in Faerun. [B]Eberron[/B] is a special case. I never liked it, but it definitely feels different than other worlds! It probably deserves to at least exist in my cosmology. Then in the last year or so I've been looking with interest at those MtG worlds that are being published for D&D. I definitely do NOT want to incorporate the whole MtG cosmology, but a small bunch of worlds have that distinct feel I like for settings an adventure there: [B]Amonkhet[/B], [B]Zendikar[/B], [B]Ixalan[/B], [B]Theros[/B], [B]Shandalar[/B], [B]Ravnica[/B]. Perhaps some of these are a bit too similar with regions already part of other chosen worlds, for instance Ixalan and Amonkhet might be too close to the Maztica and Mulhorand regions of FR, and [B]Innistrad[/B] too similar to Ravenloft? In addition to all this, I had the tendency in the past to cover several outer planes of Planescape with the ambiguity of being not so different from alternate material worlds, for example [B]Arcadia[/B] and [B]Acheron[/B]. I can play with some ambiguities and don't need to have everything clearly defined. So what alternate material planes/worlds are you using together in the same campaign setting? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Which material planes do you like in your cosmology?
Top