Editing Setting:Planescape Improvement Project

This is a fan rework of the [[Planescape]], intended to fix problems with the setting.  The director of this project is [[User:BalanceIsDumb]].  Feel free to make suggestions

=Goal=
Every plane of existence in Planescape must be interesting, adventure friendly, and properly and fully represent the niche they are meant to fill.  The same goes for the races that populate the planes.

=Material Planes=

==Prime Material==
No changes needed.

==Shadowfell==
undecided

==Feywild==
undecided

=Inner Planes=
I actually haven't read a lot of the lore about the inner planes, so for now I won't be focusing on them because I may change my mind about my changes when I read the lore and possibly realize my changes are unnecessary.

The negative and positive planes are to be removed, as they are not adventure friendly at all.  Creatures that are native to them shall either be removed or moved to other planes.  The closest equivalents to them shall be the [[#Middle Planes]]).

All of the elemental planes are now arranged in a rough sphere surrounding the material planes.  The planes of fire, water, air, and earth are spaced apart from each other like the corners of a tetrahedron so that all of them are equally distant from each other.  All of the other elemental planes exist between them.

==Primary Elemental Planes==

==Fire===
The plane of fire is the most problematic of the primary elemental planes.  How can a place be made of fire, but also be adventure friendly?  One possibility is that it is made of fire, but fire here isn't necessarily hot there.  Or maybe ways of protecting yourself from fire are easily accessible.

===Water===
I like the idea of the plane of water being an infinite ocean with no surface or bottom, broken up only by giant bubbles of air with islands in them, but that would not be very adventure friendly because you would then only be able to travel by submarine, and submarines are not as fun as ships, and harder to get.

===Air===


===Earth===

==Secondary and Tertiary Elemental Planes==
I have not yet decided what they should be.  Secondary planes exist in between two primary planes, and tertiary planes exist between three.

=Middle Planes=
The middle planes exist in between the inner and outer planes.  They are not quite spiritual planes and are not quite elemental planes either, but have traits of both.  They are not strongly tied to any alignment, but people can end up in them as their afterlife.  They have few outsiders or elementals native to them.  Currently the only two middle planes I am certainly including are the plane of bone, and the plane of wood.

==Bone/Death==
Imagine the negative energy plane, Hueco Mundo from Bleach, the Shinigami world from Death Note, the Soul Cairn from TES, and every other world of the undead you can think of rolled into one.

An entire plane made of bones and the ruins of destroyed civilizations.  Unlike the negative energy plane, which this plane is the replacement of, it is not instantly deadly to the living, but it is very hostile to them.  The atmosphere is hard to breath, plants (except undead ones) struggle to grow here because it is never daytime and there is little water, and several kinds of spells, particularly healing and resurrection, attract the attention of nearby undead creatures when they are cast.  Undead creatures are the dominant form of "life" here.  Every kind of undead creature is found here, as well as some scavenging animals, and decomposing fungi.  The undead form whole ecosystems here with stronger undead monsters preying on the weak.  The majority of undead creatures here are of the corporeal kind, but ghosts and other incorporeal undead are common as well.  Soul that end up on this plane first appear as weak ghosts, but over time can change into other kinds of undead, including corporeal ones.  Vampires and other blood dependent undead can survive here, as there is a vast river of fresh blood that flows across the plane.  One of the odd traits of the plane is that soulless undead creature that survive here long enough can eventually awaken and develop a new soul, and also morph over time into stronger undead.  The plane of bone is not all wilderness and ruins.  There are many large cities of undead here, and a few of them are tolerant enough of the living to be nice places to visit.  But many powerful villains also make their homes here.  The infinite supply of bones and naturally occurring undead makes it a perfect place to raise an undead army.  Several powerful fiends have tried to conquer the plane, but have always been repelled, both by rebellious undead not wanting to lose their territory, and by living heroes.  This plane may have some connection with the [[Elder Evil]] Atropus.  Maybe he was once a part of this plane, or perhaps he is imprisoned in the plane's core, or he acts as the plane's moon when he isn't out destroying worlds.

==Wood/Life==
Also known as the world tree.  The whole plane is one giant tree with many other trees and plants growing on it.  The roots and branches of this tree are spread out across all of the planes, where they appear as ordinary trees until you climb them just the right way.  You can find most any kind of plant monster here.  The dead can also find there afterlife on this plane, but all become plants, plant spirits, and plant monsters.  It is always daytime on the plane of wood.  But the plane of wood is not a paradise.  Many of the plant monsters are very hostile to non-plant creatures, seeing them as prey or threats to the world tree.

==Under consideration==
I think that there should be six middle planes total, but I haven't decided what the other four should be.

===Blood/Pain===
A whole world made of flesh and blood.  It is home mainly to predatory animals.

===Rot/????===
Fungi and disease

===Food/Hunger===
You know how a lot of video games have a level where the environment is made of giant food?  This is probably too silly.  Maybe instead it should be a minor demiplane.

===Void/Destruction===

===Buildings/Construction==
A plane populated by constructs, and made entirely out of semi-living buildings.  It looks like a vast endless city that is constantly expanding.

=Outer Planes=
The structure of the outer planes is unchanged.

==Outlands==
The environment of the outlands needs no changes.

The outlands need another native race to represent causes that are neutral other than balance and neutrality itself, which is covered by the Rilmani.

===Rilmani===
The Rilmani's are to be expanded upon and will have a much bigger role in the setting.  They work to preserve the balance of all of the planes.  They can played as both regular neutral, and [[Stupid Neutral]].  Most of Rilmani believe that if one of the planes were to become too powerful, or if one of the major planes got completely absorbed destroyed or absorbed by another, it would cause the multiverse to break apart and either fall into the Far Realm, or be forced to restructure itself into something unrecognizable.  They try to police the balance of the outer planes, but also the middle and inner planes.  There efforts to keep the universe in balance this way has made them many enemies across all of the planes.

There are some extremist Rilmani who interpret the cause of neutrality very differently.  These heretic Rilmani want to force neutrality upon all of the planes and make the outlands the only outer plane.

Over the last few thousand years, a new idea has started catching on with the Rilmani.  There is a theory that aberrations represent a 5th force of alignment outside of good, evil, law, and chaos, that does not have an opposite and is slowly tainting the multiverse as aberrations die and their souls go to the outer planes.  The addition of an unbalanced 3rd dimension to the alignment chart thus threatens the balance of the multiverse, and if not stopped will eventually cause the outer planes to be consumed by the Far Realm, followed by the rest of the planes.  Rilmani who believe in this theory have formed alliances with representatives of races from every outer plane to work together to wipe out all aberrations on the planes and remove all aberration souls from the outer planes.  The Tanar'ri who have joined this alliance don't really care and are just using it as an opportunity to finally wipe out the last of the Obyriths.  The theory may or may not actually be true.

==Sigil==
I need to read up on Sigil's lore a bit more before I make any decisions.

==Celestial==
No changes needed.

==Bytopia==
Needs a unique native race.  Undecided about environmental changes.

==Elysium==
I am thinking about moving the Guardinals to the beast lands and replacing them with something else for Elysium.

==Beastlands==
Maybe bring the Guardinals here.

==Arborea==
Come back to this later.

==Ysgard==
Needs a unique race, maybe two, but mostly should be unchanged.  I am considering taking the [[Asura]]s and rewriting them and putting them here.

==Limbo==
The Slaad badly need more development.  I feel that they do not properly represent pure chaos the way they currently are.

The environment of limbo could use some small changes to make it more adventure friendly.  I would like to also expand on the people other than Slaads and Githzerai that live there.  Chaotic alligned people with strong wills could create whole worlds in limbo for players to explore.

I may also add a second native race to limbo to represent aspects of chaos that the Slaadi are lacking in.

==Pandemonium==
Needs a unique native race.  It also needs some changes to make it more adventure friendly.  Probably add more cities to it.

==Abyss==
No changes needed.

==Carceri==
Demodands badly need developement.  I also am thinking about changing the structure of the plane because it seems too lawful the way it currently is or maybe its position should be switched with Gehenna.

==Hades==
The Yugoloths really badly need more development, and need to have their character rewritten to make them better represent neutral evil.  I may also add some new native creatures to hades.  I have a few ideas.

==Gehenna==
Badly needs a unique race.  And the structure of the plane doesn't seem very lawful.  I have thought of designs for a new fiendish race that could work here but I don't know what they should be called.

==Baator==
No changes needed.

==Acheron==
Needs a unique native race, and should be made easier to explore to be more adventure friendly.

==Mechanus==
I would like to make some small changes to the Modrons and other existing natives, but the environment is fine.

==Arcadia==
Needs a unique native race.

=Other Planes=
==Astral Plane==
==Etherial Plane==
==Far Realm==