Ruination of Planes (5e Variant Rule)
There are beings of such size and power, they pose an existential threat to reality as we know it. These beings, far more powerful than gods, drift between the endless chords of the multiverse, feasting on realities like a gourmet in a buffet.
Max Ruination
| Name | Maximum Ruination |
|---|---|
| Demiplane | 2 |
| Outer Plane | 4 |
| Transitive Plane | 6 |
| Inner Plane | 8 |
| Material Plane | 12 |
Effects of Ruination
The effects of Ruination are cumulative, meaning that a plane at an Outer Plane with 2 points of Ruination, suffers the effects of 1 Point of Ruination in addition to the effects of Half Maximum Ruination.
| Number of Points | Affect on Structure | Affect on Teleportation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Point of Ruination | The magic leaks into the plane from the leylines that the intersect the universe, causing all spells to cause Wild Magic Effects. | 25% chance for all teleportation into, within, and out of the plane fail. |
| Half Max | The physics becomes distorted. Characters suffer 1 level of Insanity for every hour they spend within the area. | 35% chance for all teleportation into, within, and out of the plane fail. |
| More than Half Max | Aberrations begin to crawl into this plane to feed on everything in it. | 45% chance for all teleportation into, within, and out of the plane fail. |
| Max | This plane is destroyed, all characters and objects within it are obliterated. |
When a plane of existence is destroyed, everything that plane represents is destroyed. If the Feywild was destroyed, the idea of fairies, and all the imagination, cruelty, trickery, and natural beauty they represent would be destroyed, leaving people in the Material Plane with no recollection it ever existed. Characters born from that plane of existence would be the only ones aware of the loss, and would suffer 1d3+1 Levels of Insanity from conflicting memories.
Worse than the destruction of imagination, some planes act as the foundation for the laws of physics and magic. If the Inner Plane of Fire was destroyed, thermodynamics would break down on the Material Plane, causing life to cease having ever existed within it, and leaving the Material Plane a gray, lifeless void of conflicting physics, in which only Abberations could persistent within. It has been theorized that Abberations and the Far Realm they originate from the ruination of previous planes of existence.
A Wish spell or successful Divine Intervention can remove 1 Ruination from a plane of existence.
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