Morning pet peeve fix: Forgotten Realms is not the default setting.
Eh. It is by any reasonable meaning of the word "default", whatever WotC says!
Morning pet peeve fix: Forgotten Realms is not the default setting.
I don't know. I don't run any published adventures and I am able to use the core "default" rules/game without any influence or knowledge of the Forgotten Realms. It doesn't feel like a default setting to me.Eh. It is by any reasonable meaning of the word "default", whatever WotC says!
You're completely outside the scope of settings then.I don't know. I don't run any published adventures
Positivity and negativity are principles of being and nothingness, respectively, that preexist the ethereal and the astral.
Ethereal (physical) and astral (mental) are partial glimpses of being within nothingness.
The stuff of ether differentiates into earth, wind, fire, and water, and other elemental energies. The stuff of aster differentiates into the diverse collective consciousnesses of various cultures.
The material weaves all of these aspects into living creatures, both physical and mental.
The fey is the lifeforce energies of these fateful living beings moving into to the future.
The shadow is the imprint of these lifeforce energies echoing from the past.
Both the celestial astral and the fey ethereal attune moreso with positivity.
Both the fiendish astral and the shadow ethereal attune moreso with negativity.
You're completely outside the scope of settings then.
Negative and positive energy are inner planes, essentially elemental planes and are the foundations for the quasi-elemental planes. however there are no elementals of positive or negative energy (in-canon that i know of) should there be?
One could argue that undead and living are elementals of positive energy
Negative and positive energy seem more closely represented by the gods than they do by elementals, clerics channel the 2 energies, additionally there are a myriad of gods that represent death and undeath, the powers they bestow and their representation is that of negative energy.
Why are elemental and outsiders effected by positive or negative energy?
Are outsiders and petitioners representatives of the layer of the plane that is home to them and thus they are fueled by their plane?
What is the deal with lower and upper outer planes having positive and negative energy traits if those are energies?
What do beings from the far realm relate to positive or negative energy? Logically all aspects found within the multiverse are found randomly and unimaginably throughout the far realm due to its nature being the greater khaos that the multiverse is a part from.
If negative energy fuels undead, and positive and negative energy cancel each other out, why do some undead gain hit-points from bestowing negative levels? What is actually happening in that exchange?
What is the difference between entropy and negative energy?
Why is shadow so often associated with negative energy despite the plane of shadow not being the negative energy plane
With all of this in mind, where does negative energy come from? Where did it enter into the chronology and why?
Eh. It is by any reasonable meaning of the word "default", whatever WotC says!
Just a point of contention.
In 1e, though the negative and positive planes were part of the inner planes, they were just as separate from the elemental planes as the prime material plane was. They were separate, or on a separate level.
That is kinda the point. The game doesn't require a published setting, and does not have a defaultYou're completely outside the scope of settings then.
Well, now this is just "yes it is! no it isn't!", isn't it?That is kinda the point. The game doesn't require a published setting, and does not have a default
I'm fairly certain that negative energy comes from grognards, gate-keepers, and wang-rods.Negative energy is that energy which fuels undead in a way that positive energy fuels the living.
With all of this in mind, where does negative energy come from? Where did it enter into the chronology and why?