Results 1 to 13 of 13
Thread: About the Planes of Existence...
-
2020-08-04, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2019
- Gender
About the Planes of Existence...
So, I've been designing a new homebrew world, and as I began working on the planes and different planets within the crystal sphere, and based on my understanding, I realized something: the entire crystal sphere is the "Prime Material". So this left me with the question, where are the other planes? Are they essentially different dimensions connected to the Prime Material, or are they somethign else entirely? I haven't been able to find this while reading, but I may just be looking in the wrong places. So, if any of you have any insights in to this, please leave it a response below!
If you're ever looking for homebrew for your games, look no further than The Owlbear's Den! Content is (usually) posted every Tuesday and Friday, with one collection published and one more on the way! And the best part? It's all free!
-
2020-08-04, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Aug 2007
- Location
- Imagination Land
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
Yes, the other planes pretty much equate to alternate dimensions.
Not like one of those "everything is the same except for the Federation is evil and Spock has a goatee" alternate dimensions, but like a totally different world.
-
2020-08-04, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2019
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
If you're ever looking for homebrew for your games, look no further than The Owlbear's Den! Content is (usually) posted every Tuesday and Friday, with one collection published and one more on the way! And the best part? It's all free!
-
2020-08-05, 02:12 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2015
- Location
- Paris, France
- Gender
-
2020-08-06, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Aug 2012
- Location
- Vacation in Nyalotha
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
If all rules are suggestions what happens when I pass the save?
-
2020-08-06, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2014
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
Yep. Space: The Final Frontier.
But if you're worried just about the planes for your local sphere then I'd say they pretty much overlap the prime in a sort of fourth-dimensional way. The Astral plane connects everything which means it touches everything at the same time while not containing any of them. Likewise, the Feywild and Shadow dimensions coexist with the prime while mimicking it as a copy. On top of that planar cosmology says clearly that so and so outer plane is to left of another plane while being above the inner planes while also being infinite.
Basically, all of this means it's impossible to visualize the planes. They only make sense in 4-D. Where is the plane of Fire? It could very well be inside that guy's stomach. Don't try too hard to understand where they are, they just exist to the left of reality.Trolls will be blocked. Petrification works far better than fire and acid.
-
2020-08-06, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2019
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
Last edited by Techcaliber; 2020-08-06 at 05:30 PM.
If you're ever looking for homebrew for your games, look no further than The Owlbear's Den! Content is (usually) posted every Tuesday and Friday, with one collection published and one more on the way! And the best part? It's all free!
-
2020-08-06, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2019
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
If you're ever looking for homebrew for your games, look no further than The Owlbear's Den! Content is (usually) posted every Tuesday and Friday, with one collection published and one more on the way! And the best part? It's all free!
-
2020-08-06, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Location
- In my library
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
As has been said, they are pretty much alternate dimensions. In the pre-4e default cosmology this was most clear with the Ethereal and Shadow planes, where the 'near' portions closely resembling the material plane.
-
2020-08-07, 01:16 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2018
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
Usually, the Planes of Existence is a fantasized version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(esotericism), but we cannot discuss real esotericism because that goes too much into religion.
- Physical Plane: Material Planes
- Ethereal Plane - links the astral entity to the material entity
- Astral Plane - links the mental entity to the ethereal entity
- Mental Plane - links the causal entity to the astral entity
- Causal Plane - links the soul to the mental entity
- Soul Plane - links the sprite to the causal entity
- Spiritual Plane
At each levels, there could be multiple planes. The elemental planes are at the Physical Plane level.Last edited by HouseRules; 2020-08-07 at 01:17 AM.
Level Point System 5E
Poker Roll
Tier 1 Master of All
Tier 2 Lightning Bruiser
Tier 3 Lethal Joke Character
Tier 4 Master of None
Tier 5 Crippling Overspecialization
Tier 6 Joke Character
-
2020-08-08, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2019
- Location
- Somewhere over th rainbow
-
2020-08-08, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2019
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses, super helpful!
If you're ever looking for homebrew for your games, look no further than The Owlbear's Den! Content is (usually) posted every Tuesday and Friday, with one collection published and one more on the way! And the best part? It's all free!
-
2020-08-15, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2010
- Gender
Re: About the Planes of Existence...
Note for Eberron:
All the planes there are still alternate dimensions. It's just that said alternate dimensions can have metaphysical proximity to locations on the material and thus create manifest zones. The metaphysical proximity is often tied to the plane's respective moon, but the plane and the moon are different entities—blowing up the moon of Dal Quor did not destroy Dal Quor.