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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 3991105" data-attributes="member: 553">You only know that the design purpose is to make places more suitable for adventuring is because you're reading the preview material, or forum commentary about such material, which includes the designer's explaining "why we did it this way."It's like watching the DVD extras for a Wuxia movie, which show how they did the special effects, and complaining that you can see the wires there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> You want your wires hidden? Wait until the PHB and MM come out, and read those. The DMG I'm thinking will still have some wires showing, as it will probably contain advice on doing things yourself. But you can probably skip those sections, too.Me, I like these explanations, and knowing that at higher levels, some planes aren't just "cool sounding places that you'll never survive in, even if you had a reason to go there." And, as Stogoe points out, the new planar mythology feels much more organic and "real world" than the Great Wheel, which was first-and-foremost built around a game mechanic - alignment - then had a hodge-podge of deities crammed into it, and rarely in a logical fashion.</blockquote>