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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4633753" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>I don't entirely agree with the first part of your post, but I can get behind this paragraph. As I have mentioned before, one of the greatest weaknesses of the 4E Manual of the Planes is that it does nothing but mine the Great Wheel and Planescape in order to fill in the gaps of the new cosmology, and that just doesn't work. The Abyss is a good example of this, since it is supposed to be a region of the Elemental Chaos, but its actual description presents it as being nothing more than a slightly tweaked version of the Great Wheel Abyss, so it hardly seems like it fits the Elemental Chaos at all. The addition of the old Astral Plane color pool concept into the Astral Sea nearly manages to wreck the fantastic imagery of the plane and reduce it all to blandness again. Meanwhile, the excellent new planes of the Feywild and Shadowfell seem under-developed and lack detailed thought and imagination in the book. If nothing else, there is a surprising lack of discussion of the nature and role of the dead in the Shadowfell, which is bizarre considering its nature as the plane of the dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 4633753, member: 32536"] I don't entirely agree with the first part of your post, but I can get behind this paragraph. As I have mentioned before, one of the greatest weaknesses of the 4E Manual of the Planes is that it does nothing but mine the Great Wheel and Planescape in order to fill in the gaps of the new cosmology, and that just doesn't work. The Abyss is a good example of this, since it is supposed to be a region of the Elemental Chaos, but its actual description presents it as being nothing more than a slightly tweaked version of the Great Wheel Abyss, so it hardly seems like it fits the Elemental Chaos at all. The addition of the old Astral Plane color pool concept into the Astral Sea nearly manages to wreck the fantastic imagery of the plane and reduce it all to blandness again. Meanwhile, the excellent new planes of the Feywild and Shadowfell seem under-developed and lack detailed thought and imagination in the book. If nothing else, there is a surprising lack of discussion of the nature and role of the dead in the Shadowfell, which is bizarre considering its nature as the plane of the dead. [/QUOTE]

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