Reposting this from 2024 is my reminder to myself to get around to finishing this series one of these days. I also think I may revise a coup...

I've been listening to the audiobook of A Travel to the Middle Ages , and its description of what, by the late Middle Ages, is essential...

There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great Wheel of Outer Planes, though I also like a lot about it . I'...

One of these days, I'm going to completely finish (and maybe publish) this series on the Great Wheel, but until then, here's everyth...

Everything Lawful, in one post! The Twin Paradises The Layers of Heaven ( part 1 ) ( part 2 ) ( part 3 ) ( part 4 ) Arcadia The Planes of Pu...

Arcadia was born from the schism between Absolute Order and the Archons which believed in transcendence, those who raised up the Heavenly M...

Back in Dragon Magazine #8 when Gygax presents the first diagram of the standard planes of D&D (which wasn't yet a "Great Whee...

The Archons of the Cosmos and their lesser progeny have the comfort (or curse) of an unshakable belief that there was something different b...

No one is quite certain how the Concordant Opposition came to be. It is quite possible that some soldiers of Law and some warriors of Chaos ...

There is a realm where the obdurate, crystalline structure of a Mechanus shatters and fragments, floating free into the void of half-formed ...

  It is possible for the determined traveler who has been shown the hidden paths to walk from the Elysian Fields to another planar realm. T...

I think I've got another entry in my series on the Outer Planes coming soon, perhaps tomorrow. Here's a review of where we've be...

Intelligent beings of planar aware civilizations have attempted to conceptualize the meaning of the Outer Planes. Some of the these explanat...

Ysgard in some metaphysical sense is found between the pure (or what passes for it in the current multiverse) chaos of Limbo and the pursui...

I've been thinking about finishing this series on the Outer Planes. We'll see if that happens, but here's a review of where it...

"Intelligence work has one moral law—it is justified by results." - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold , John Le Carre Th...

"Outside the ordered universe that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity....

Art by Luca Nemolato Hidden in the crags of the windswept heights of the Holy Mountain, the tenacious Pilgrim may glimpse, no doubt with som...

The path up the Holy Mountain out of t he Green City is less frequently trod and thus harder going. None but the most dedicated servants of...

Pilgrims following the path up and out of the Silver City will in time come to the Yellow City, which is the second of the Heavenly Cities....