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

Snapped from the Barbarian video.

 

[TheSword]

Back to the topic.

Just because 5e hasn’t published something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the general body of lore.

There’s tons of stuff out there for Planescape - it was a really well fleshed out setting with tons of supplements, boxed sets and adventures in the range.

The planes are awesome and those that say they are bland just haven’t read enough on the setting.

 

[StoicElf]

I do like the art style. It is simplified and abstruct, a bit cartoony, but I like it. Although I prefer the other older medieval / alchemical drawing style maps from 3.5 edition, a bit of artistic diversity doesn't hurt.

 

[TheSword]

The great thing is because the outer planes are conceptual rather than physical they can be depicted in many different forms.

The unreliable narrator is very strong with the setting.

 

[Chaltab]

One thing that has always bothered me about the positioning of the Great Wheel is the placement of Carceri and Acheron. To me it makes way more sense for Carceri, the Red Prison, to be a lawful plane, and for Acheron, a realm of chaotically colliding cubes carrying copious conflict, to be a chaotic plane.

Edit: That said, I do like this map in terms of style and simplicity of understanding. One change I'd make is that I always thought it would be neat to have the Material Plane and Inner Planes all existing within the middle of Sigil's Torus.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

One thing that has always bothered me about the positioning of the Great Wheel is the placement of Carceri and Acheron. To me it makes way more sense for Carceri, the Red Prison, to be a lawful plane, and for Acheron, a realm of chaotically colliding cubes carrying copious conflict, to be a chaotic plane.

Edit: That said, I do like this map in terms of style and simplicity of understanding. One change I'd make is that I always thought it would be neat to have the Material Plane and Inner Planes all existing within the middle of Sigil's Torus.

It has more to do with the inhabitants, Carcari's inmates are chaotic, a lot of Archerons petitioners and other inhabitants are discplined and lawful soldiers. I think maybe the chaos the cubes is to keep the Plane from becoming too lawful and the Prison Nature of Tartarus keeps the Chaos from being too much, these aren't Hell or the Abyss.

 

[Demetrios1453]

One thing that has always bothered me about the positioning of the Great Wheel is the placement of Carceri and Acheron. To me it makes way more sense for Carceri, the Red Prison, to be a lawful plane, and for Acheron, a realm of chaotically colliding cubes carrying copious conflict, to be a chaotic plane.

Edit: That said, I do like this map in terms of style and simplicity of understanding. One change I'd make is that I always thought it would be neat to have the Material Plane and Inner Planes all existing within the middle of Sigil's Torus.

Acheron's cubes aren't chaotic - they are mathematically shaped, move in a regimented manner, and their collisions can be timed to the second.

This is contrast to Ysgard, where the landmasses don't have any distinctive shapes, and they move and collide with no set schedule. Warfare in Acheron is strict and regimented; warfare on Ysgard is free and chaotic. There's a reason why Acheron and Ysgard are diametrically opposite each other on the planar map...

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Acheron's cubes aren't chaotic - they are mathematically shaped, move in a regimented manner, and their collisions can be timed to the second.

This is contrast to Ysgard, where the landmasses don't have any distinctive shapes, and they move and collide with no set schedule. Warfare in Acheron is strict and regimented; warfare on Ysgard is free and chaotic. There's a reason why Acheron and Ysgard are diametrically opposite each other on the planar map...

While that's fair, it doesn't explain why the literal prison plane is Chaotic.

 

[Staffan]

While that's fair, it doesn't explain why the literal prison plane is Chaotic.

I thought @Henadic Theologian's explanation was pretty good, actually: the ones imprisoned are Chaotic, and therefore so is the plane.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I thought @Henadic Theologian's explanation was pretty good, actually: the ones imprisoned are Chaotic, and therefore so is the plane.

So Arcadia is Chaotic because all those laws only exist to constrain the behavior of chaotic individuals who would undermine the system?

Doesn't fly.

 

[Minigiant]

Back to the topic.

Just because 5e hasn’t published something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the general body of lore.

There’s tons of stuff out there for Planescape - it was a really well fleshed out setting with tons of supplements, boxed sets and adventures in the range.

The planes are awesome and those that say they are bland just haven’t read enough on the setting.

The Great Wheel isn't bland.
The Great Wheel is overpromoted but underused.