" Where you are when you aren't anywhere else." I love this quote since it can be said about every single location ever.

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

or nowhere at all ;)

@gabeheartz13saravia97

3 жыл бұрын

Does Anyone else think that the ethereal/astral plane is made of quasiphysical cosmic energy

@gabeheartz13saravia97

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan so the ethereal/astral plane is the space between universes? Would that make ectoplasm extra dimensional cosmic energy?!

How did you manage to do a summary of the astral plane without once mentioning what is (to me) its most interesting (if rare) feature: the gigantic corpses of long-dead and forgotten deities. (See Dead Gods; 2e Planescape)

@agsilverradio2225

4 жыл бұрын

But if your not in the astral plane, and your not anywhere else, you may be in the far realm.

@danielearnshaw8392

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah its literally in the dm manual and he didnt mention it

@FromAgonyToLight

4 жыл бұрын

I made a necromancer character who eventually made it to level 20 whose eventual grand master plan was to reanimate the corpse of a dead god and swap spirits with it.

@kalamity273

4 жыл бұрын

@@FromAgonyToLight I know what I'm playing next! :-P BRILLIANT!

@AllWillBeRevealed957

3 жыл бұрын

Or how the githyanki built an entire city on top of one of them.

Hey Great video! On Stranger Things, when the kids search for information about the Upside Down on the D&D books they find an entry about the Vale of Shadows. Now apparently they're not officially playing D&D because of trademark issues etc, but I would guess the upside down is something like the Shadowfell indeed.

The Astral Plane sounds like that place beyond time in Chrono Trigger!

i wish they made an isometric RPG based on crazy outer realms. Torment 2 or something.

So if I have this right, the etheral plane is the "in between" for the material plane and places like the feywild or the shadowfell, and the astral plane is the "in between" for everything else? such as nine hells? 5e is back on the wheel cosmology yeah?

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

You are correct, 5e is a wheel cosmology! The Ethereal plane connects to the inner planes which include the Elemental Planes, the Feywild/Shadowfell and the elemental Chaos. That's what is officially stated in the 5e DMG.

Maybe a detour into how Spelljammer intersects with Forgotten Realms. There are several points where it does.

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

I do love some spelljammer

@JeremiahMcCoy

7 жыл бұрын

As all right thinking gamers do.

So I'm a little confused: The Ethereal is a "ghost dimension" where someone can walk around in the Material world, but as a ghost. The Astral Plane is the "ocean" of travel between the planes, and acts as a physical way to do this traveling (unless you're doing that astral projection thing, where instead of physically traveling you're kinda using a spiritual version of "Google Earth.") Am I understanding this correctly?

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

I think you've got it :)

@vjm3

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! The Ethereal was tripping me up.

So good! Thanks for setting all this up and spreading the lore :) I'm currently writing on a campaign that has a powerful lich draining power from the barriers between the planes, eventually causing things to shift from one realm to another and vice versa, and all the lore about the different planes of existence is just fueling the entire narration machine! Thanks so so much!

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

+Bastian Wilk that sounds awesome!

@bahaakpinar6643

6 жыл бұрын

My campaign has the same gimic

Best ph-video yet! :)

Yay! Another video I'm so happy :)

WOAH!?!?!?!? 2 videos in the same week!?!?!?!? What is this madness!!!!!

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

I know right!?! Lore videos will be every Wed, not sure where I'll squeeze in the vlog yet :)

I was thinking about the Upside Down while I watched your Shadowfell video. Great DM's think alike. I'll like to hear more of your take on 1st and 2nd Editions lore (I'm old school 70's and 80's).

In a campain I played in my character got a hold of the Robe of Stars which allowed me to travel to the Astral Plane. This came in handy when we were fighting an adult white dragon in a small cave. My character was a Chosen Soul Sorcerer and was quite useful for healing the cleric when he went down. But eventually I got reduced to less than 5 hp so I just poped into the Astral Plane where I was safe since the dragon had its sights set on me for healing the cleric.

There's another way to get to the Astral Plane: Put a Bag of Holding inside another Bag of Holding. Rips open a portal to the Astral Plane, which sucks in anything within 10 feet. No saving throw, and no way to avoid it, it just HAPPENS. It destroys the bags, but it's an instant portal, and only takes an action to do. It's a perfect "Panic Button," for when the only alternative is Death.

@irok1

3 жыл бұрын

This is why I'm at this video

Love the videos. I think rolling to see what portal shows up is a little silly. I don't feel guilty about making up those things at will.

Jorphdan, just letting you know you're my go-to for Meta Lore and Knowledge

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

The pressure!! XD

@TAGAnimus

5 жыл бұрын

Jorphdan you beautiful man, you've already succeeded

Thanks much for the vid sir.

The Veil of Death in Harry Potter is a rare plane portal confirmed, probably an Ethereal one tho since no one comes back.

I really like your content, looking forward for more! I'm currently running a weekly campaign for some friends and it's taking place in the country of Sembia. I'd love it if you made a video about the contemporary era, like the latest stuff that happened which led up to the present age. (Spellplague and the Second Sundering were the latest major events right?) I really enjoy learning more about the world and the history of how things came to be, but I also really want to know how things currently are! Great job on the vids dude, keep on keeping on! :D

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm going to stay on this D&D Cosmology track until I finish, then I plan on going back to Faerun and explore specific areas much like you suggested! Glad you enjoy the videos and good luck with your campaign :D

@nicolollenado9641

7 жыл бұрын

Jorphdan Bless u dear sir, your content is a hidden gem ;_;

I love the planes my favorite part of dnd thumbs up

Lead usually blocks magic adapting the radiation blocking property it has in the real world.

i always love your vids

I ran an encounter in the Shadowfell and as soon as the party saw the shadow crossing, they asked: "Oh my god - is that the Upside Down?!" So that's what we call the Shadowfell in my campaign :P

Is Gloomwrought meant to be the Shadowfell equivalent of Baldur's Gate? They seem to share a lot of similarities (ex: located on the water, surrounded by a wall, huge hub for merchants, etc.)

@Jorphdan

2 жыл бұрын

Not to the equivalent that Evernight is an echo of Neverwinter. Gloomhaven and the shadowfell weren't built for the realms, but the realms incorporated it during 4e. I see what you mean though, and in my game why not!

Just found your channel and I'm loving it! Are you or have you done a video on specifically Ravenloft?

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't yet but it's a good idea!!

Reminded me of the astral dragon video

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

That was a good video!

Working the astral sea into a campaign I'm working on so the info here has been helpful. Since the astral sea exists outside time and space, and if you know how to navigate it, you can go anywhere, could you also go anywhen? Long story short, I'm thinking of trying to get my players to team up with a crew of Gith to travel back in time to stop an llithid invasion before it has even begun.

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

nice!

no mention of the asteral dragons? those things are kickass! although rare. or did they die off during one of the massive changes like the time of troubles or the second sundering?

Something is bugging me; how do the astral plane and elemental planes overlap, since astral connects only the material plane to the outer planes? Is there no way to gor from the inner planes to the astral plane except by passing by the material plain? Also, starting on the material plane, can you get to any of the outer planes through the astral plane? if so, then why can't you go from an outer plane to any other non-adjacent one by the same means? Can the material plane be used just as the outland, as a shortcut? also, how do the astral plane and ethereal plane overlap? How can you go from one to the other? And how does the astral plane and the outer planes connect? (whats the astral planes' version of border etherial?)

Could you pass through undead in the ethereal since they technically aren't living matter?

@TerrariaGolem

5 жыл бұрын

Tyler M don't know why this was funny. Probably because it's clever.

@sofialaya596

5 жыл бұрын

there are different kinds of undead, some do have souls, or are just souls like ghosts. Other undead are vessels with "magical simulations of souls", I read somewhere. If you can pass trough magic you can pass trough the last one I guess

So if the cosmic wheel represents all the alignments, would that make the astral and ethereal planes be the planes of True Neutrality?

i'm totally gonna do a githyanki fighter PC on a quest to kill a mind flayer and earn their place in the astral plane

@Jorphdan

4 жыл бұрын

Nice!

If you are on the Astral plane, can you still travel to the inner planes via portals? Or do you only find portals to the outer planes in the Astral plane?

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

I believe you can travel anywhere from the Astral Sea via portals. The DMG has colored portals for all the outer planes, the material, and the ethereal. However nothing to stop YOU from connecting the inner planes too, or your players can take a quick jaunt to the ethereal plane before making their way to an inner plane.

@MrAelual

6 жыл бұрын

Astral plane has rifts into the ethereal plane where you can find curtains into the inner planes.

In Xanathar's you can be born in the astral plane

A young githyanki kill a mindflayer??!! HA wouldnt see many Githyanki in the Astral plane then LOL

@shanem8145

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe what the dm should try is build the lowest tier of githyanki that could actually kill an entry level mind-flayer and use that. Make them much more dangerous. No level 2 githyanki lol

killing a mind flayer is easy for them though cause they are immune to most of their BS

Hey Jorphdan, great video! I wonder: Can you Long Rest in the Border Ethereal?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Probably, but some ethereal monsters might find you

So would a good analogue for the Ethereal Plane be the Wraith world from LOTR? It seems like, minus the lack of gravity, all the rules kinda of seems to apply.

@1:11 where is that picture from?! It'd amazing!

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

Here ya go! Found it on this wiki elrion.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cosmos?file=Ethereal_plane.jpg

i need some help here to understand. is the astral plane the same as the astral sea? can you travel from the Ethereal plane to the Astral and how? and how does the elemental chaos fit in between this.

so my players managed to create a rift portal thing by having the bard knowingly put a magical item the isn't supposed to go into the bag of holding, it created a portal and it sucked them in, they're relatively low level and no one knows any "astral plane door spells" what's a way I can get them back to their original plane. new to dming

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

There are always portals. could be a fun adventure for them to find a portal that leads to the feywild and from the feywild another portal that leads them home. Meeting interesting quest givers along the way :)

"If you liked this video, give it a Lich"

Where can I learn about Astral Diamonds that isn't a video about Neverwinter?

Anyone know if a Githyanki silver sword could sever a creature's silver cord while on the material plane? -like if the wielder were at the physical body of an enemy who was astral projecting?

Best YT soundtrack for ethereal plane: " 9 Hours Fantasy Ambient Beautiful Music "Potion n.4"

@MrVulcanator

4 жыл бұрын

Francesco Rizzo I cant find it

@ONDANOTA

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrVulcanator in my channel

To simplify. “The Astral Plane is fully separated. The Ethereal plane is filled with shadows of things that are, the Astral Sea is filled with things that could have been.”-Reddit. Not me.

wait, if the astral sea negates hunger thirst and age, could you theoretically spend down time there without paying for living expenses? also, can you use a wish spell (lesser or greater) to get like, 10,000 years of down time to spend freely in the astral sea?

@properlydicedonyon3624

5 жыл бұрын

...You could just plane shift there

You could break anything by placing another object inside it

so if the "border" of the ethereal plane is basically a mirror of the closest plain (material or elemental), how exactly can you describe the deep ethereal?

@Jorphdan

4 жыл бұрын

good question, I know I'd come up with something smokey and mysterious as a DM. But officially I'm not sure if there is a set way the Deep Ethereal is supposed to be. Perhaps this will warrant a Deep Ethereal video. I'll see what I can dig up.

@thiagocorreia3483

4 жыл бұрын

Jorphdan So it depends on the DM's interpretation, tricky. Thank you and keep up with the great work

Is there a passage of time in the these plans? Or is there no time at all

@alamaywhite2360

4 жыл бұрын

I was curious because if I casted a spell that took time, would it just go on forever?

1:97 DOOM!!!!!!!!!!

really good stuff. you should eventually get into the outlands/Planescape with Sigil as it shares the same outer planes with Forgotten Realms

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's the plan!

Did the Githzerai are on this edition ? The other. Gith race. Who is at war with the Githyanki

You spoke of the Gith Yanki but nothing on the Gith Zeri?

@Killishness1337

6 жыл бұрын

They inhabit Limbo, not the Astral plane, however they are a related species.

So the ethereal plane is where wraiths exist in the Lord of the Rings.

wait, the natives of the Astral Sea fight Illithids? i thought the Illithids were either from the Far Realm, or from like, actual space in the material plane, but not on Toril. was the Astral Plane / Sea originally an analog for outer space and that got retconned? d&d is confusing

@sofialaya596

5 жыл бұрын

it is almost as confusing as greek mythology, yap

@monohybridstudios

2 жыл бұрын

The illithid traveled across the multiverse enslaving the many races they came across. It is thought that the gith were once human but corrupted and twisted (this is unknown to be true or false). Anyways, the gith eventually rebelled led by a female named Gith (where they took their name).

@makingnoises2327

2 жыл бұрын

@@monohybridstudios that isn't relevant to my question at all. the question is about how the illithids got into the astral when originally they traveled through the phlogiston between the celestial spheres in spelljammer, which is all on the prime material plane. the astral is an entirely different plane, and illithids rarely leave the prime in spelljammer, let alone fight wars on other planes.

@monohybridstudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@makingnoises2327 I can't say I know much about the mythos of spelljammer. But in the original Forgotten Realms they are thought to be from the Far Realm originally and it's possible that even the Gith aren't native to the Astral but brought there by (or escaped there from) the Illithid.

Love this channel! I've played AD&D since the 80s and have always pronounced Githyanki as YANK like the Yankees instead of like YONK like Yonkers. Ugh😬

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

tomato... tomato? 😀 Thanks for watching!

The ethereal plain seems a bit boring to me. It certainly needs a makeover but doing so would probably cause another spell plague or something similar unless you arrange something among the deities.

They thing is,people actually do astral projection in real life,its real look it up

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

well this is a game, so... I'm focusing on the game :)

@catolicoapostolicoromano64

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan hahahahaha yeah gg :)

Failbaddon

The KZread suggested videos on this one are gonna be whack.

@Jorphdan

7 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Maxwell get ready for psychic help centers