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I said I wasn't gonna do any requests cause I got asked for so many personalized ones, it would be impossible to make them for everyone. But I also got asked to do these and seeing how everyone can use these I thought why not (I had a bit of time in between classes). 

When designing a cosmology, the primary goal is to explain the rules of physics that will affect the players, or at least affect their understanding of the game setting on a larger scale. You can always go with a traditional D&D model like the Great Wheel, World Tree, or World Axis if you don’t want to bother with creating one, or the players might simply not have knowledge of planes other than the Material Plane. Heck, maybe they don’t exist! But if you DO want to create a cosmology, make sure you think about the things that will matter to your campaign.

Your cosmology might depend on the story you want to tell. If you plan to have the players travel to other planets, you’ll need to map them out. If you plan to have players hopping from plane to plane, you will need to explain how they affect one another and how they connect and how they are different. If your campaign takes place in an unusual world very different from our own, you might need to explain what those differences are and what causes them.

To start with, I would first determine what sorts of planes exist in your world. There can be many, even infinite, or just a few or a couple of planes. Once you have those, you can arrange them and determine how they interact. A lot of this stuff is picked up from the 3e Manual of the Planes, with some new ideas added.

Planar Traits

For each plane, you should determine its traits as they would affect the players and the other inhabitants of the plane. When you make these decisions, you should always consider how they will affect the inhabitants; how they evolve, how they act, and how they advance technology to make their lives easier.

Planar Shape: This is honestly my favorite part of creating a plane. It can lead to truly memorable and unique planes. Remember Sigil? Of course you do. It’s a city lining the inside of a donut. Imagine a whole plane shaped like that and how interesting it would be as a campaign setting. To help brainstorm this, look around you and imagine how ordinary objects would look like as a plane and how it would affect creatures within.

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In this post, a faerie is asking for ‘your’ name. The way he is wording it, however, and the accompanying beckoning motion, makes it seem as though he is asking for you to physically hand your name over. Which, because of how some faeries operate, he is.

In this instance, saying your name aloud to the fae would be literally giving your name over to him, the exact consequences of which are left up to the imagination–usually, a fae even knowing your name gives it some measure of power over you, but giving something your name would likely let it completely take over your life.

You recognize him instantly. It is the Fæ whose influence your village is under, the one the elders have told you and your friends to be wary about, for the people who have been seen walking away with him have never come back.

You don’t know what he does to them. The villagers have never dared to confront him about it, never dare to address to him at all. He is not evil: he sometimes speaks blessings upon the cattle, talks the horses to calm after a storm, ensures a good harvest for the farmers, makes the flower bloom in spring even when the weather is still too cold. He is, simply, a Fæ, whose ways humans cannot understand.

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