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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2181881" data-attributes="member: 158">I don't avoid them per se, but I rarely run them, either. It's more to do with my philosophy of the planes, than it is finding it too hard to run.I believe that the planes of existance should be extremely powerful places that mortals should tread carefully, and the idea of having lower-level adventurers travel there grates against my feeling of what the planes should be. Since we rarely run high-level games, planar plots rarely come up.When they do, I feel they should be impressive places to travel to, full of weird things and some tough opposition, a place that the players have their characters venture into and think, &quot;Oh, boy, we've made it in the big leagues now!&quot;It was always one of the big turn-offs for me when Planescape introduced many means for low-level adventurers to survive and prosper in the multiverse; Sigil, while a cool concept, basically placed Modern-Day New York in the middle of the 1800's Louisiana Purchase, and it grates against my feeling of what the planes should be. When I rarely run a planar game, I want it to be skin-of-their teeth, and necessary, rather than the setting for a politically-oriented adventure. There may be occasional outposts of safety, but none that are easy to come by.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 2181881, member: 158"] I don't avoid them per se, but I rarely run them, either. It's more to do with my philosophy of the planes, than it is finding it too hard to run. I believe that the planes of existance should be extremely powerful places that mortals should tread carefully, and the idea of having lower-level adventurers travel there grates against my feeling of what the planes should be. Since we rarely run high-level games, planar plots rarely come up. When they do, I feel they should be impressive places to travel to, full of weird things and some tough opposition, a place that the players have their characters venture into and think, [I]"Oh, boy, we've made it in the big leagues now!"[/I] It was always one of the big turn-offs for me when Planescape introduced many means for low-level adventurers to survive and prosper in the multiverse; Sigil, while a cool concept, basically placed Modern-Day New York in the middle of the 1800's Louisiana Purchase, and it grates against my feeling of what the planes should be. When I rarely run a planar game, I want it to be skin-of-their teeth, and necessary, rather than the setting for a politically-oriented adventure. There may be occasional outposts of safety, but none that are easy to come by. [/QUOTE]

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