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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9076658" data-attributes="member: 66357">The Elemental Chaos was always just Limbo with the serial numbers filed off, but the real issue is that the Outer/Astral and Inner/Ethereal/Elemental Planes are on opposite "ends" of the cosmology from one another, regardless of whether you're looking at the Great Wheel or the World Axis.In the classic Great Wheel setup, Limbo is one of the Outer Planes. Turning Limbo into the Elemental Chaos in 4e moved it to the Elemental side of the cosmology, which - in spite of my grumblings as a Planescape fan - worked fine since they were throwing out the Great Wheel as the default cosmological framework anyway and replacing it with the World Axis.But bringing the Great Wheel back in 5e meant that Limbo's spot was opened back up on the Astral side of the cosmology again, so they were left with the choice of ditching the Elemental Chaos altogether, replacing Limbo in the Great Wheel with something else, or splitting the difference and keeping both even though they're almost identical. Needless to say, they chose option 3.</blockquote>