D&D (2024) Check Out The New Map Of D&D's Planes!

Snapped from the Barbarian video.

 

[Cadence]

I like that it gets across vital details about each of the 16 Planes, quickly. A bit more new player friendly than a more in-setting esoteric presentation. I think it is, in fact, trying to look like a video game-y presentation for the target audience consumption and understanding.

I'm trying to imagine it in Zelda or Halo or something else I see played and it doesn't really fit that mold for me? (Which video game would have graphics like that? I don't play any.)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

How does the Abyss assault the Nine Hells (as they do in Avernus) if they are a few planes to the right?

Clearly this "map" is an oversimplification, right?

It's like some folding a piece of paper and sticking a pencil through it to explain time travel.

 

[DavyGreenwind]

Uhhh, where's the material plane?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Elysium,Beastlands, and Arborea look too samey and Mount Celestia should the silver sea surrounding it, land.

Yeah, would have been cool if one or more of them had the mountains towards the center, and the river pouring off the outside of the ring

 

[Osgood]

I mean, I think this looks better anyway...
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I’ll take Eberron’s planes over the “great” wheel any day if the week! Each feels distinct and has a purpose (plus none are tied to the gods who are… elsewhere, if they exist at all).

 

[Micah Sweet]

How does the Abyss assault the Nine Hells (as they do in Avernus) if they are a few planes to the right?

Clearly this "map" is an oversimplification, right?

It's like some folding a piece of paper and sticking a pencil through it to explain time travel.

Traditionally, most of the battles of the Blood War take place in the middle planes (Gehenna, Hades/The Grey Wastes, and Carceri). Hades is the home plane of the yugoloths/daemons, although most have moved over to Gehenna. Both they and the gehreleths/demodands of Carceri act as mercenaries in the war for either or both sides.

 

[MarkB]

It's like some folding a piece of paper and sticking a pencil through it to explain time travel.

Isn't that one for wormholes?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I’ll take Eberron’s planes over the “great” wheel any day if the week! Each feels distinct and has a purpose (plus none are tied to the gods who are… elsewhere, if they exist at all).

I'll point out that the 5e Great Wheel Cosmology got hungry, and ate the Eberron and its planes, so it has both alignnent and Orrey Planes. Hypothetically with a Planeshift spell you should be able to move between them.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm trying to imagine it in Zelda or Halo or something else I see played and it doesn't really fit that mold for me? (Which video game would have graphics like that? I don't play any.)

My first gut reaction is to say Dörfromantik?

 

[cbwjm]

Uhhh, where's the material plane?

It's a map of the outer planes which explains why the material plane, all of the inner planes, etc aren't shown because they're not an outer plane.