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

Snapped from the Barbarian video.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Are you seeing a higher resolution version? It should at least be bright and green.

I meant other pictures of Bytopia, not this very sketchy example.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I wonder if there is space for the return or update of the para and quasielementals (ice, magma, ooze, smoke, ash, dusk, lighting, minerals, radiance, salt, steam, vacuum... rain, sun, silt.. grave, blood, mist, pyre..).

Sorry, but now I am unfocused because my mind is thinking about how to recycle the mythology of the backrooms and the places of creepypaste for D&D adventures. Maybe a zone of the infinite staircase has been tainted and then it worked like the D&D backroom.

Now the planes are too "known", like a theme park visited by too many tourists. We need new elements that could cause surprise to the players.

 

[Marandahir]

I wonder if there is space for the return or update of the para and quasielementals (ice, magma, ooze, smoke, ash, dusk, lighting, minerals, radiance, salt, steam, vacuum... rain, sun, silt.. grave, blood, mist, pyre..).

Sorry, but now I am unfocused because my mind is thinking about how to recycle the mythology of the backrooms and the places of creepypaste for D&D adventures. Maybe a zone of the infinite staircase has been tainted and then it worked like the D&D backroom.

Now the planes are too "known", like a theme park visited by too many tourists. We need new elements that could cause surprise to the players.

I used the Backrooms as the part of the Outlands that touches the Far Realm.

 

[AstroCat]

This is not working for me... everything I see from "6e" is pretty much been a miss. There is just really no way I can get into this version. Sigh, oh well we bailed on 4e as well, although we at least did a sincere trial campaign before we stopped using it. 6E I think we know it's not even worth the trial campaign at this point. Maybe when 7e comes out... who knows.

 

[Marandahir]

This is not working for me... everything I see from "6e" is pretty much been a miss. There is just really no way I can get into this version. Sigh, oh well we bailed on 4e as well, although we at least did a sincere trial campaign before we stopped using it. 6E I think we know it's not even worth the trial campaign at this point. Maybe when 7e comes out... who knows.

Did you skip out on 2014-2024's 5e? because this is literally the same system, just tweaked a bit.

 

[Milieu]

I'd appreciate if someone with access to Gods, Demi-gods, and Heroes could corroborate or debunk one of my theories based on this evolution--namely, that the Wheel is partially the result of having to shoehorn deific residences from that supplement into Gygax's earlier structure.

Gods, Demi-gods, and Heroes contains nothing of particular relevance to your theory. The gods therein are not assigned alignments, except sometimes by implication: a few are noted to e.g., favor lawful characters, or, in the case of Mictantecuhtli, "Any person that worships this God is definitely worshipping Chaos itself, since Mictantecuhtli craves death." There is also a note at the start of the "Eastern Mythos" section that says

The mythology of the Far East is varied and colorful. In dealing with it. the concepts of Yin and Yang must be defined. These are the Chinese equivalents of bad and good. These opposites are almost beings in themselves and move all Gods and creatures in a war for supremacy. In using eastern Gods one should always think of them as not lawful or chaotic, but having good Yang or bad Yin.

However, it does not assign any of those gods an alignment of Yin or Yang either.

Where alignment is mentioned, it is only the 3-alignment law/neutral/chaos system, though in some places it equates "evil" with "chaos" and "good" with "lawful". For example, in the section on eastern dragons:

Evil dragons always live in mountains and hills, whereas good dragons live in water areas. Green dragons are lawful and unaffected by anything with wood in it. Blue dragons are made of the sky and neutral and not affected by anything launched in the air at them. Red dragons are very evil and breathe fire. Gold dragons are found in all 3 alignments.

Alignments are only assigned to non-deities, like mortal heroes and eastern dragons. (For example, Conan is listed as having a neutral alignment while Elric is chaotic.)

It also says nothing in general of the gods' dwelling places, except for the Norse gods, but even then, nothing apparently related to the Great Wheel, e.g.,

Lastly, Odin's halls and lodgings are numerous, among them Valhalla; Odin's council hall — (as it is all of the other God's hall) is Gladsheim and finally Odin's palace Valaskialf where is located Hlidskialf, his magical "All Seeing" throne.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Gods, Demi-gods, and Heroes contains nothing of particular relevance to your theory. The gods therein are not assigned alignments, except sometimes by implication: a few are noted to e.g., favor lawful characters, or, in the case of Mictantecuhtli, "Any person that worships this God is definitely worshipping Chaos itself, since Mictantecuhtli craves death." There is also a note at the start of the "Eastern Mythos" section that says

However, it does not assign any of those gods an alignment of Yin or Yang either.

Where alignment is mentioned, it is only the 3-alignment law/neutral/chaos system, though in some places it equates "evil" with "chaos" and "good" with "lawful". For example, in the section on eastern dragons:

Alignments are only assigned to non-deities, like mortal heroes and eastern dragons. (For example, Conan is listed as having a neutral alignment while Elric is chaotic.)

It also says nothing in general of the gods' dwelling places, except for the Norse gods, but even then, nothing apparently related to the Great Wheel, e.g.,

Thanks for the update. I guess I was wrong, so apparently Gygax was already planning to include 'fine shading' as he moved from D&D to AD&D. It's of note that he says in the main text of the article that the entire game would need to be rewritten to fit with this planar structure, which is probably one of the things that brought us to AD&D and his contention that it's a different game than D&D.

 

[mike@campaignmastery]

I wish they had made one in four blank spaces that the GM could use for original creations.

 

[Marandahir]

I wish they had made one in four blank spaces that the GM could use for original creations.

Why? You can still do that! While people who want more guidance have that.

 

[MNblockhead]

I wish they had made one in four blank spaces that the GM could use for original creations.

I can't imagine the epic art-debate threads this would generate.

It would be pretty funny to have a PHB release where all of the "artwork" would be blank spaces with caption instructions to, e.g., "draw an illusionist how you envision an illusionist character to look like", "create an illustration that provides an abstract diagram of the cosmology as you envision it".