SPECTRE666
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Design & Development ArticleIts not much, but its something till tomorrow. ![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
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I'm glad there's more to the cosmology than just the Astral and Elemental Test. The Feywild and Shadowfell sound like the "new and better for Adventuring" Ethereal and Plane of Shadow, respectively.SPECTRE666 said:Design & Development ArticleIts not much, but its something till tomorrow.
SPECTRE666
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Yeah, waiting for the article to go up.Pale said:
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Place your bets now to guess which post number the fallout thread will be closed on.
Deadpools are in such bad taste.
BTW, I don't think "Feywild" is the ethereal, per se, though I agree that Shadowfell sounds like an awesome plane-of-shadow-y type place.
I guess the Realm of Faerie might be filling the same role as the ethereal, but the ethereal was defined (in third edition) as the between-place you go when you're pushed out of the prime.
It had a *status* condition for it.
Earlier editions made the ethereal mo' better, but even then, it's a way of getting to the Inner Planes. Feywild just doesn't sound transitive to me, y'know? Still, fairy paths and places to hide out sound like fun...
If they're serious about squeezing every drop of awesome that they can from the rule set, I'd imagine that they'll either do some sort of merge between the Incorporeal and Ethereal statuses, or leave them separate, cut the description of the Ethereal Plane and move it into the Ethereal Condition.
There are very few adventures set in the Ethereal Plane that couldn't be set in a similar plane elsewhere; the Ethereal's main claim-to-fame is inheriting the wallpaper of whereever you happen to be on the Prime in the Ether.
Other than that, it's defined as empty.
I think the Feywild is more or less all new, and was created by mashing together bits of Arborea and Elysium and a buncha other planes.
Where by "think" I mean "hope".
I'd guess it's where the Eladrin (and the Ur-Elves) hail from, and where fey magics still happen. It's also pretty easy to merge back into the Great Wheel, if anyone is antsy about that: Pick faerie-realm appropriate locations; I'd bet it's overflowing with Gates, so that's not an issue.
BTW, I don't think "Feywild" is the ethereal, per se, though I agree that Shadowfell sounds like an awesome plane-of-shadow-y type place.
I guess the Realm of Faerie might be filling the same role as the ethereal, but the ethereal was defined (in third edition) as the between-place you go when you're pushed out of the prime.
It had a *status* condition for it.
Earlier editions made the ethereal mo' better, but even then, it's a way of getting to the Inner Planes. Feywild just doesn't sound transitive to me, y'know? Still, fairy paths and places to hide out sound like fun...
If they're serious about squeezing every drop of awesome that they can from the rule set, I'd imagine that they'll either do some sort of merge between the Incorporeal and Ethereal statuses, or leave them separate, cut the description of the Ethereal Plane and move it into the Ethereal Condition.
There are very few adventures set in the Ethereal Plane that couldn't be set in a similar plane elsewhere; the Ethereal's main claim-to-fame is inheriting the wallpaper of whereever you happen to be on the Prime in the Ether.
Other than that, it's defined as empty.
I think the Feywild is more or less all new, and was created by mashing together bits of Arborea and Elysium and a buncha other planes.
Where by "think" I mean "hope".
I'd guess it's where the Eladrin (and the Ur-Elves) hail from, and where fey magics still happen. It's also pretty easy to merge back into the Great Wheel, if anyone is antsy about that: Pick faerie-realm appropriate locations; I'd bet it's overflowing with Gates, so that's not an issue.
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mhacdebhandia
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Remember, also, that this April's preview adventure for Fourth Edition is called Keep on the Shadowfell.
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