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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6143487" data-attributes="member: 11697">Very often with the 4e World Axis cosmology, I found that it seemed that the designers really wanted to do their own thing and not be bound to prior D&D planar lore, except that they still wanted all of the creatures from past editions to be there in 4e. Thus you have some monsters sticking out like sore thumbs because they don't fit very well taken out of their original context, and in other cases the plane doesn't so much seem like it was designed around a central concept so much as it was there to have monsters who had their 1e/2e/3e plane of origin excised in 4e.The Shadowfell seems to be a weird mashup of the Plane of Shadow, the Negative Energy Plane, and some vague Greek Underworld symbolism thrown in. The Elemental Chaos being the Abyss, the Elemental Planes, and Limbo boiled into one (though possibly only the latter because the slaadi and githzerai had to found a place somewhere with Limbo being removed).I just hope they avoid some of the more IMO awkward admixtures that we saw from having to force-fit classic D&D into a cosmology alien to much of it.</blockquote>