D&D 5E Positive & Negative Energy

[Joshy]

I miss positive and negative energy. The damage name changes still bother me as well.

I'm planning a campaign and I think bringing them back for it will be really fitting.

Does anyone on here have any experience doing something simular?

 

[Casimir Liber]

WRT damage - necrotic and radiant

WRT planes - shadowfell and feywild - I promote the negative/positive energy aspects of them

 

[Joshy]

WRT damage - necrotic and radiant

WRT planes - shadowfell and feywild - I promote the negative/positive energy aspects of them

WRT?

 

[jasper]

WRT damage - necrotic and radiant

WRT planes - shadowfell and feywild - I promote the negative/positive energy aspects of them

You are correct on Necrotic and Radiant but you have to explain the second sentence.

 

[Maxperson]

WRT?

Google says With Regard To

 

[NotAYakk]

WRT = "With regards to".

Feywilde was designed to be an adventurable positive material plane, shadowfel was designed to be an adventurable negative material plane. In 4e, a D&D cosmology was put together that focused on "how does this make for adventuring stories".

They did this with the Abyss, Astral and Elemental Planes as well.

 

[Joshy]

Lol I thought it was a fantasy term.

Damage type name changes:
Sonic - Thunder
Electricity - Lightning

Positive use to heal the living and negative use to heal the undead.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The most comparable experience I've had in 5e was the party having a pet baby shambling mound (shambling lump?) and my wizard healing it with shocking grasp.

I see no particular barriers in 5e to saying that healing is positive energy that damages the undead, and adding in negative energy. I would not try to correlate them to radiant and/or necrotic damage as those are already used extensively, and you don't want to have to rewrite how they operate in the system.

I would also refrain from creating a negative energy cantrip as the designers strongly discourage healing cantrips for homebrew, and it's one of their few suggestions for homebrew that I'm really inclined to take to heart.

 

[Joshy]

Yeah I wouldn't have any healing cantrip.
I have played around with one that allowed the target to use a Hit Die to heal but they had to be conscious.

I thought of just changing the healing and harm spells. But i didn't know if there was something I was missing that could break the game.

 

[Casimir Liber]

With respect to-