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Poll #490 - Next Month's Theme (Minor Pivot)

  • Para-Elemental Plane of Ice 16
  • Para-Elemental Plane of Magma 5
  • Para-Elemental Plane of Ooze 21
  • Para-Elemental Plane of Smoke 9
  • Positive Energy Plane 11
  • Negative Energy Plane 38
  • Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning 24
  • Quasi-Elemental Plane of Mineral 8
  • Quasi-Elemental Plane of Radiance 7
  • Quasi-Elemental Plane of Steam 8
  • 2025-01-24
  • —2025-01-31
  • 147 votes
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Content

Hey friends,

I've got a big itch to make a Broadsword Guide detailing one of the lesser-known inner planes, something that's never really been done too heavily in the history of Dungeons & Dragons. These are the hell obscure ones, the quasi- and para- elemental planes. I often bring them up in my writing, but now that Omeria is officially "shattered" and spread across the Deep Ethereal, I figured now would be an interesting time to start detailing them. Expect this to be a bit more surreal/sci-fi than the usual fair.

Don't worry. It'll still have some shit-your-pants horror, of course.

Pick the realm you think sounds coolest! I'll be pulling from the old Inner Planes Planescape Book (2e) and adding my own stuff.

Comments

Bacour

I see Negative Energy is winning pretty handlily, but it feels like just more Necromancy on the pile. Every year I see Tome of Dread/Death/UNdeath/Shadows and so forth... where are the Tomes of Transformation? The Towers of Insight? Where are the living canyons that sing to those with a musical ear, and lure them into it's depths? Negative Energy concepts flood our creative spaces. While I voted for Ooze, I'd be interested to see what a creative writer could come up with for any of the border realities of the elemental planes.

Adahy Bullet

I know Negative is winning, but I still wouldn't mind seeing Ooze get some love at some point if you ever do another thing like this. It is a forgotten realm in the Forgotten Realms.

June Soler

Dave, add a little about strange permutations of the NMP, called the Gray on some worlds...