Modding in the Planes

[Singularity24601]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

Adding the inner and outer planes is a nice idea, but you might consider cutting them down a bit, to be a little more manageable...D&D suffers from a bad case of "kitchen-sink syndrome", expressed nowhere so strongly as in it's celestial cosmology.

Agreed. They're apparently trying to tone it down for 4th edition. Meanwhile, there's always other real-world mythologies with similar themes, like the various planes on Yggdrasil the World Tree.