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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9065608" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>In the game, the Ethereal Plane is made out of an immaterial substance. Call it whatever you want. It is what the Ethereal Plane and the ethereal creatures are made out of. To call the stuff of the Ethereal Plane "ether" is clear enough.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Creating a means of invisibility for the Enchantment school is something that some settings might do, and that indy publishers might do. It is of interest to psionic fans as well.</p><p></p><p>Across the editions of D&D, there are thousands of spells that continue to inspire new 5e spells.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But for each school to be clear and useful, there needs to be reasons why it includes the spells it does. These spell school descriptions that are clear are how a player knows which school to look into to find relevant spells. For example, there might be many spells that are also phantasms. It helps to know whether to look for them in the Illusion school or the Enchantment school.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The default is what the default is.</p><p></p><p>If the default causes "pain points". The default deserves a doublecheck to see if a remedy is possible.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Material people can walk thru the Fey creatures in the Feywild without even realizing they are there. Likewise walk thru ghosts in the Shadowfell without realizing they are there. They pass thru each other.</p><p></p><p>In order for the Material and the Ethereal to interact, the Material must use Force effects, have a way of seeing the ether, <em>Planeshift</em> into the Ethereal or its Fey and Shadow, or reciprocally, the Fey and Shadow spirits have a means to "manifest" within the Material Plane. Even then, the manifestation might be Incorporeal.</p><p></p><p>The difference between a Humanoid Elf and a Fey Elf is, the Humanoid by means of magic became a creature of flesh and blood. The Humanoid Elf has a material body. The Fey Elf is only an immaterial spirit.</p><p></p><p>Now within the spirit world, the various forms of force behave virtually like matter. In other words, they are living illusions. But there is no actual matter. The spirits are immaterial.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, ghosts and wraiths and the entirety of the Shadowfell are immaterial. When a Humanoid dies, their immaterial ghost leaves the body of matter behind in the Material Plane, and the immaterial ghost ventures off to an immaterial Shadowfell. The immaterial soul might also go to the nonphysical and immaterial thoughts and dreams of the Astral Plane to one of the immaterial alignment planes there as a "disembodied mind". There is no matter in the Astral Plane. Nor in the Ethereal Plane. The traveling between planes is planeshifting between different modes of existence. The planeshifter is "translating" from one way of existing to an other.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Only the Skeletons, Zombies, et al, that are part of the Material Plane are "material". When there is a corpse of matter in the Material Plane that animates, then that material body is what the Skeleton or Zombie is.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Material Plane has this name because it is what it is.</p><p></p><p>The soul is immaterial. The body is material. The body is an aspect of the Material Plane. The body is matter. The soul isnt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9065608, member: 58172"] In the game, the Ethereal Plane is made out of an immaterial substance. Call it whatever you want. It is what the Ethereal Plane and the ethereal creatures are made out of. To call the stuff of the Ethereal Plane "ether" is clear enough. Creating a means of invisibility for the Enchantment school is something that some settings might do, and that indy publishers might do. It is of interest to psionic fans as well. Across the editions of D&D, there are thousands of spells that continue to inspire new 5e spells. But for each school to be clear and useful, there needs to be reasons why it includes the spells it does. These spell school descriptions that are clear are how a player knows which school to look into to find relevant spells. For example, there might be many spells that are also phantasms. It helps to know whether to look for them in the Illusion school or the Enchantment school. The default is what the default is. If the default causes "pain points". The default deserves a doublecheck to see if a remedy is possible. Material people can walk thru the Fey creatures in the Feywild without even realizing they are there. Likewise walk thru ghosts in the Shadowfell without realizing they are there. They pass thru each other. In order for the Material and the Ethereal to interact, the Material must use Force effects, have a way of seeing the ether, [I]Planeshift[/I] into the Ethereal or its Fey and Shadow, or reciprocally, the Fey and Shadow spirits have a means to "manifest" within the Material Plane. Even then, the manifestation might be Incorporeal. The difference between a Humanoid Elf and a Fey Elf is, the Humanoid by means of magic became a creature of flesh and blood. The Humanoid Elf has a material body. The Fey Elf is only an immaterial spirit. Now within the spirit world, the various forms of force behave virtually like matter. In other words, they are living illusions. But there is no actual matter. The spirits are immaterial. Yes, ghosts and wraiths and the entirety of the Shadowfell are immaterial. When a Humanoid dies, their immaterial ghost leaves the body of matter behind in the Material Plane, and the immaterial ghost ventures off to an immaterial Shadowfell. The immaterial soul might also go to the nonphysical and immaterial thoughts and dreams of the Astral Plane to one of the immaterial alignment planes there as a "disembodied mind". There is no matter in the Astral Plane. Nor in the Ethereal Plane. The traveling between planes is planeshifting between different modes of existence. The planeshifter is "translating" from one way of existing to an other. Only the Skeletons, Zombies, et al, that are part of the Material Plane are "material". When there is a corpse of matter in the Material Plane that animates, then that material body is what the Skeleton or Zombie is. The Material Plane has this name because it is what it is. The soul is immaterial. The body is material. The body is an aspect of the Material Plane. The body is matter. The soul isnt. [/QUOTE]
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