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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2182892" data-attributes="member: 172">Right. But it's something you can select when you design a plane.Indeed it is. But there are several ways to approach this, some of which are covered in existing planar products. Another conceit of the great wheel is that beleif shapes reality. One take on infinity on the great wheel is that if you travel into the outback of the planes, parts of the planes come into existence to satisfy your beleif that they are there.But some people never worry about the implications of it and just play them as if they were "really big" or "yeah, there are infinite demons, but they are off occupied in infinite wars, etc."I personally don't care for the implications and in my take on the great wheel, the most I can stomach is the above belief brings it into existence thing.But really, is this something most people who don't like planar adventures worry about? It seems oddly specific to me, and something that really usually only pops up on planescape mailing lists or the odd planescape specific usenet posting among fans.I sort of address this in one of my earlier replies to Celebrim. AFAIAC, it's not the preferred starting mechanism for planar games.But can't this be as permissive or restrictive as you want? You can give players a portal map and give them a number of known locations that they can travel to with reliable portals just as easily as you could map the adjacent nations, cities, and sites. (More easily in fact, since you don't have those pesky rules of reality in your way, and you can grant as much or as little overland travel as you want.)I think the flexibility of portals is one of the big draws for me.</blockquote>

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