D&D 5E 5E DMG question

[HobbitFan]

Other than name dropping is there any reason why the 5E DMG puts the Isle of Dread on the Elemental Plane of Water?

I don't remember anything in X1 that indicates its on another plane.....did I miss something?

 

[Mephistopheles]

I don't think you missed anything - from what I recall it was in Mystara, south of the land mass that Karameikos was on.

In the elemental planes illustration in the 5E DMG the shape of the Isle of Dread does look very similar to the map from X1 so I assume it's intended to be the same one, somehow shifted to the Elemental Plane of Water.

 

[soulcatcher78]

They were able to come up with a site for each of the other Elemental Planes so they felt like they had to put something to visit on the Elemental Plane of Water...doesn't seem like a good reason but it's only my opinion after all

The Isle of Dread can be anywhere you want it to be.

 

[GameOgre]

or...........someone really loved their in house Isle of Dread 5E game and they know stuff we don't!

 

[Henry]

The entry speaks of storm-gates that transfer people from the Prime to here - maybe they plan on making it a more iconic place, available to all planes? Or as suggested, maybe they plan on some type of mega-adventure retelling of X1 in the future?

 

[HobbitFan]

It's a head-scratcher. Rather than go, "oh cool!" as intended (I guess anyway) I was more like "Wait....what?!".

 

[the Jester]

I suspect because it has been placed in multiple planes- Mystara, Greyhawk and the 4e setting (Nerath?)- at various points.

 

[Erik42]

Put it where you want it. Personally, in more than three decades of playing D&D, I've never been inclined to set anything in any of the Elemental Planes.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I suspect because it has been placed in multiple planes- Mystara, Greyhawk and the 4e setting (Nerath?)- at various points.

I think the implication, and in my campaigns at any rate, the Isle of Dread shifts from plane to plane and world to world. Don't stay too long or you might end up somewhere else without leaving the island.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I think the implication, and in my campaigns at any rate, the Isle of Dread shifts from plane to plane and world to world. Don't stay too long or you might end up somewhere else without leaving the island.

The Isle awaits! Will you be able to find the lost plateau and discover the secrets of - the Isle of Infinite Improbability? For character levels 3-undefined.