What They Don't Tell You About The Twin Paradises of Bytopia - D&D
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Please do Pandemonium, I've always seen that layer as a lamer Abyss, is there anything that helps it stand out?
Don't appreciate all the shade you just threw on like 10 of the outer planes man :-p. Especially Elysium & hades, as the pure expressions and sources of good and evil in the multiverse, they're just as important as the hells and Mt. Celestia, just because WOTC neglects all but 3 of the outer planes in 5e, if you're using the great wheel then those places are important. And Acheron has the highest concentration of evil God's in the multiverse. Other then Asmodeus himself none of the Demon princes or Archdukes can hold a candle to the pantheons at war there. If the Goblinoids or the orcs ever declare a winner, that's gonna be a problem comparable to the blood war ending. I'll take demigorgon over Mangubliet/ Gruumsh anyday
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So this video kinda turned into a Gnome video. So now we definitely need a Halfling video
Rhexx, I am loving these outer planes videos. Can you please do Gehenna soon? Literally nobody has done anything on it, and I just know you'd make an amazing video. Thank you.
Let’s have a 30 minute video by MrRhexx for every plane and every monster. I’ll stay tuned for it all! I just really love this guy’s content.
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He's kind of been doing that. It's just several videos for each plane....
Yes
I think of Bytopia as the Shire, the way Frodo thinks of it. The wilder half is maybe Bilbo's adventurous yearnings.
When you're a nuetral good kobold and turn into a freaking gnome after you die
The kobold god takes them instead because of that reason xD.
@@archmagemc3561 Not necessarily. They'd have to worship that god and keep to the tenants of that faith. Otherwise they'll go to the realm of the god they *do* worship, or the plane that most closely matches their alignment.
@@daviddaugherty2816 yes, but kobolds are all for the community, so they will pray the same god or gods (probably all kobolds pray for the kobold god)
Gnomes and Adamantine Dragons sound so interesting, I found your videos on D&D lore a year ago and though I have never played before I enjoy watching your channel a lot. Kudos!
You had me at "no taxes". There is no better description of heaven.
Can we get a video on gnomes next? If this is their heaven, I misjudged the little illusionists.
Dam right I watched tell the very end. Your content has entertained me for years and you are still my go too for lore.
In keeping with the theme of your last few videos I think you should continue to cover more lawful planes, in specific Mechanus. My Battlesmith would love to hear more of this realm of law and Constructs, continental size gears. The coup that happened there. The occasional marches that come from this plane would be cool to touch on but I almost wonder if that topic deserves a video in its own right
I'd love that too. He could cover the 9 hierarch modrons that didn't make it into 5e, leading everyone to think that modrons are all super weak. Like no, we just only have stats for the weakest kind and even those got nerfed coming into 5e. I'd love to see him give some stats for Primus the way he did Moradin & Lolth
An interesting overview of the plane! I only knew about the weird geography of it, it's nice to hear more details! Hopefully you'll eventually get to one of my favourite planes, Acheron. Such a weird, awful place.
Literally about a week and a half ago my players laid to rest a fallen player (Kask, a warforged created by an old rock gnome in a very Pinoccio/Geppetto relationship) at his home village in the Tinker'in Grove. Segojan Earthcaller told them that he couldn't take Kask directly to the Golden Hills because of his unnatural spirit, but he could guide Kask on his journey from afar if they purged the force in the cemetery that destroyed the gnomish spirits before they could finish their journey to the Golden Hills, and his soul could become that of a gnome once his journey is complete. In my campaign, it hasn't come up much other than this, but in order to reach your afterlife you must make a short journey; part of it is to prove your worth (similarly to how Mt. Celestia works); part of it is to reflect on your life and the people you touched; and in practice it represents a grace period during which creatures can be revived or communed with as an undead as opposed to a celestial/fiend/etc..
Thank you for detailing the Good planes too! The adventure of the Higher Planes is our ultimate destiny.
Thanks Rhexx for this new video !
I was searching for information about the good planes, but weirdly, this is harder than for the bad planes (the Abyss, the 9 Hells...).
As usual, that's a very good job, thank you !
See you in an other video :)
So the other half is for people that prefer the wild and untamed nature? For example a barbarian that prefers to live of the land, fend of mighty beast etc? Also, do petitioners that go into the not-gnome heaven part still turn into gnomes? Or other folk can spend their afterlife in the wild part for example, as themselves? Are there any consequencs of this gnomification resurection wise?
Wild and untamed nature is the Beastlands or Arborea. The first layer of Arborea is an infinitely large forest which surrounds Arvandor (elf heaven) and Mount Olympus, the second layer is an infinitely large ocean, and the third layer is an infinitely large desert. The Beastlands are basically "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. By contrast, the other half of Bytopia is basically nature that the inhabitants get to tame. Bytopia is a lot like "Minecraft: the plane".
I just read Planescape's Planes of Conflict guide on the subject (where most of the information in this video comes from) and found nothing on gnomification. Most petitioners *are* gnomes, but it seems like you're golden.
Resurrected characters always return as they were before death.
@@daviddaugherty2816 Splendid, thanks for digging this up
@@stanisawdrewienkowski2843 No problem!
Thus is really helpful. Thank you. A buddy and I are designing our own DnD world setting, and this helps with Gnomes and Titan lore. Not to mention adamantine Dragons!!!!!!
The one kid with Brain damage: "Let's invade pandemonium y'all!"
after seeing a lot of dwarves... gnomes are one the best follow up posible :P
I imagine that the Kobold heaven would attack Bytopia.
Almost reminds of my Minecraft world Brytopia
Yay, back to the multiverse again!!!! It's good to make people realize that there are more in the great wheel than the Mt. Celestia/Nine Hells/Abyss trio.
Amazing! Even gnome heaven is awful.
Great video
Finally some gnome lore!
Hi MrRhexx great video by the way, I hope the next video you talk about Elysium my favorite plane and their inhabitants.
I once misunderstood the lines "any animal exist in dothion is stronger and bigger in shurrock" And the mention of dire animals being native in bytopia, and from that i thought dothion has normal animal and shurrock is dire version of it.
turns out every animal in bytopia are dire varians including in dothion, this mean animals in shurrock r uncategorized "super-dire" version bcs they r way more wild and bigger 😂, also despite being a dire, animal in dothion r tame, in fact it being a dire r a good blessing for them bcs it yield more products
random Demon: I think I want to invade Bytopia.
Adamantite Dragon: -_-
random Demon: ....suddenly I don't want to invade Bytopia anymore.
Wait, someone mentioned New York not being just a city, a miracle only found in the heavens indeed.
Golden hills- dwarf fortress
Dothion- stardew valley
Shurrock- Minecraft
Since those admantium dragons are so rare maybe they do not reproduce at all. Maybe just like how non gnome residents are turned into gnomes maybe the odd dragon showing up are turned into an adamantium dragon.
The plane makes you a gnome? it is worse than hell then
Are we am seeing the beginning of mount celestia?
Bytopia sounds like harmoneous Existence rather than enforced altruism.
Bytopia: Where Down is Up, Up is Down and the Chief Deity is the manifestation of Capitalism!
no taxes but i have to become a gnome? man, im not sure its worth it
Where is the Greek patrons?
I'm playing a cleric of Demeter
I never knew gnomes were so based
Why does the video cut off mid sentence at 29:38?
I love Bytopia. The whole concept combines the "heavenly" aspect with this fantastically impossible geography. I love the idea of looking up, and instead of seeing the sky, you see a completely different land, just out of reach! Such an amazing design.
Awww I got all excited when I saw what I thought was a new plane to me. They just renamed it... Wah wah wahnnn
@@bayoubilly5176 What was it called before?
Really inspires that adventurous spirit.
I would love to know more about the Egyptians gods in D&D because they seem to be all over the place in the planes.
So this heaven is Stardew Valley but as an afterlife?
Mr.Rhex: Non gnomes who go to bytopia as their afterlife turn into gnomes:
My LG/NG human wizard character: Wait, what? That's weird, but I guess being a gnome in the giant cavern heaven will give me more head-room and brainpower, so why not?
Think about a LG kobold merchant that would be send there... Priceless
@@MangaSt I mean, only a feind can put a price on a person's soul.
@@MangaSt The gnomish deities would absolutely do that. The prank of a lifetime.
@@agsilverradio2225 The local Lich will disagree.
Bytopia sounds like a wonderful place to live. Just wish there wasn't the gnome requirement lol
I suppose that if you worship that Egyptian goddess you might get a pass on the Gnome transformation.
To be honest, I have no idea where he's getting that. I'm pretty sure the Planescape Planes of Conflict guides mention that's only for the Golden Hills.
I think he's doing the New York fallacy, himself.
This was a fun video! I appreciated you slipping into the Planar Cant, from time to time; it's been a long time since Planescape has been significant enough for me to heat "cutter, jink, berk", and other stuff. Back in the 90s, I loved Planescape, especially some of the Guilds of Sigil; I'll always love incantifers, and prolongers, merkants, dustmen, and others are also fun. Before 3e, I thought mortai (big living clouds) were one of the mightiest creatures in D&D! Anyway, Bytopia seems like a fun place; i can imagine some druids, or other adventurers retiring there, and just relaxing around some comfortable bouts of work.
I’d love to get a video going more in depth on the god of death and judgement and what happens to creatures souls when they die
Yes please
The Soul Wall is horrible, I know that. And I think Khelimvor hates it as well, but all the other gods tell him to keep it for 'reasons' so he has to relent.
@@archmagemc3561 Kelemvor hated it originally but when he did his whole "Death isn't supposed to be good. It's just death, separate from the plains of morality and my realm will simply be one of judgement." He changed his viewpoint.
Question: Will this become a series exploring the several heavens/upper planes of DND cosmology?
Yes it will, he mentions that after he lists the patrons at the end.
Please please, Hasbro, replace Mr. Monopoly with Garl Glittergold.
Fantastic video! I'd love to learn more about petitioners. Like, can two gnomish petitioners reproduce and make more gnome petitioners? Are they immortal, do they need to eat/drink/sleep? What is the process by which a petitioner ascends? Are they raptured, vanishing and leaving their clothes behind in a heap?
They are immortal and cannot reproduce. They are made from mortals who die. Ascension is complicated and varies from edition to edition, with some petitioners not "becoming one with the plane" and instead turning into angels or other outsiders (for example when a petitioner on Mount Celestia climbs the mountain to the next layer they are permanently transformed into the next kind of archon).
Can't wait for Arborea. Bitopia is wonderfully cool for the dual nature.
Bytopia is one of my favorite planes due to how underdeveloped it is. I placed My Sun Goddess in Bytopia, Naludia, aka The Ever Maiden, The Smiling Death (to demons and devils) The First Goddess, Goddess of Mary Sues, Goddess of the Nas Potami and Celestials (Nas potami is Proto-Celestial = Our Descendants; the original mortal species that turn into celestials at death and a major antagonist of my homebrew campaign "Paths of Light") ect. She is the semi-secret sun Goddess of Bytopia and the plane formed to hide her from too many prying eyes. There she awaits her true love (the over god, Khut, who created the mortal condition) to return to her at the end of time and the triumph of goodness. Of course, she isn't sedentary, but shared the secrets of mortality and raised many of the original greater gods to godhood. Her marble and golden palace is located on shurrock, stretching over an entire mountain range. It's populated by celestials and asuras who account their good deeds and hard work and sing her praise before roaming the upper planes once more. It's one of the few places that the celestials and asura truly behave themselves as most of their existences started as a Nas Potami.
She is also the close friend of Araushnee (indeed all mother goddeses heed the Ever-maiden) and helped her craft the elves for Correllon. She now seeks to save the goddess from the corruption of lolth with the help of Eilistraee and Vhaeraun and the player characters, in my current campaign "Return of the Blade-Dancers". I feel this campaign is far better in allowing drow a path of redemption than simply saying there are more good drow than evil drow.
11:46 "Devils that want to create chaos"
Excuse me, lol?
Another great and nuanced introduction to another outer plane!
I must admit, I'm surprised you didn't use any screenshots or clips from Godzilla VS Kong. Seeing how the Hollow Earth was depicted I immediately thought of Bytopia.
I'd be excited for a Beastlands video. After all, it's basically the Jumanji heaven :)
Its an interesting idea for a world space. The mountain/pillars remind me a bit of The Elder Scrolls with its 8 towers. Towers that if destroyed or deactivated would turn the world back into what it was before creation.
Okay.
I’m going to be ignoring the whole “merging with the plane/god” shit.
Because quite literally EVERY character I’ve ever played, and will ever play, would rather seek out fucking lichdom or something than do that bullshit
Yeah one of my character ideas is a Redemption Paladin who finds the afterlife system of the Forgotten Realms intolerably unethical because even the good align gods are essentially coercing every living being and is bent on taking the Khelemvor’s godhood to alter the afterlife so nonbelievers stay in an afterlife in the Fugeplane or just reincarnate on the Material Plane.
@@InquisitorThomas
That is a delightfully fun concept!
I have a character that’s….SOMEWHAT similar in outlook.
He’s a necromancer that practises his trade because he thinks the afterlife-system fucking SUCKS, and he wants to free both himself and others from it
Not all petitioners do that. Some turn into celestials (Angels or Guardinals for example). Petitioners on Mount Celestia turn into lantern archons before beginning the climb up the mountain. They only merge with the plane if the climb all the way to the top (it is assumed, not even the Archons know what really happens when you climb all the way).
@@InquisitorThomas The death god of my homebrew setting feels the exact same way. He works with the other death gods as partners. Except Kelemvor, who he feels violates the natural order of the multiverse with his Wall of the Faithless nonsense.
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Yeah, cause the wall of the faithless basically implies
“Oh, you spent your entire life in the service of Good, helping others in ANY way you could, and eventually sacrificed yourself to save thousands upon thousands of lives? Well, you are still faithless, cause ya didn’t particularly like the gods. Of to the wall ya go
Best perspective I've ever heard concerning law / chaos and goodness.......... Order is a great tool to bring about goodness, but when the order / law becomes more important than the reason it was made in the first place (goodness), it should no longer be a law.
Good > order.
I agree.
Maybe new members of congress should be required to study the D&D alignment chart before taking office. Since apparently law school doesn't cover these details
@@agentchaos9332 Don't you know they are all aligned with Asmodeus?
@@SangoProductions213 Not really all of them. Some of them are aligned with other devil lords (particularly Mammon and Dispater) while others are aligned even with some less lawful fiends (e.g. Graz'zt of Cegilune).
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Is 't Bahamut an silver dragon?
@@mandurain7823 Nope. As a god he isn't really any of the normal metallic dragons.
Seconded
@@mandurain7823 Bahamut is the one and only Platinum Dragon. He is the first Metallic Dragon, and the father of they who have descended into us Metallic Dragons today. He is the rightful king of all dragon kind.
Bahamut is definitely one of my favorite gods in DnD.
One day I will wake up with the sun shining on my face. The birds singing in the sky and a warm breeze blowing through the air. Kids will be playing in the streets, neighbors will being laughing in conversation, and as I look at my phone it says "What they don't tell you about Bahamut" I will smile and say, "it is a beautiful day today"
Soo if Asmodous eats the souls of atheists and Dragonborn don't believe in gods....does that mean Asmodous have a mostly Dragonborn diet?
Technically they get thrown to the Wall of the Faithless where they kind of just... fade into oblivion. Still, that's just in the Forgotten Realms setting.
Anywhere else in the multiverse, souls go to the plane that most closely matches their alignment.
my favorite plane is Pandemonium. Id love to hear more about that and the howlers/howling dragons! Also this is a great video and I like how you went into detail about what a petitioner is
THANK YOU! Finally! I've been waiting for a video on my second favorite planar realm. Can't wait until you cover Elysium.
Me the first time I researched some of the D&D afterlife locations: Man, none of these places sound particularly great.
MrRhexx: describes Dothion
Me: Finally, one that sounds like a decent place to just spend an afterlife. It sounds like it would basically just be a second life.
MrRhexx: If you're not a gnome, you'll be turned into a gnome.
Me: Gosh darn it! Are there no heavens in D&D that just let you be yourself! I mean it's still not as bad as Mt. Celestia's arguably toxic view of self improvement through mandatory repeated self-sacrifice, but why the transformation into a gnome?!
What if your true self is a gnome? 😆
But seriously, yeah, as much as you hear, "33 different planes, most with multiple layers and infinite space within the plane" and you think, "This is a great afterlife system! Surely there will be something that fits everyone!" And yet somehow it's still too particular...
Elysium would probably be the best, I know there's the whole trap of " you never want to leave" but as long as you're going there as a dead soul instead of a living person with unfinished business, I don't see why you'd ever want to. Personally I like the idea of Ysgard too but that's not for anyone who has a low pain tolerance or problems with gore
Bytopia is actually one of my favorites... And gnomes are one of my favorite humanoid types too, so it works for me pretty close. But there are still differences where I'm like, "But what about this?"
What about the Blessed Fields of Elysium's pure bliss, without responsibility to worry your mind, along with everything you need always being within arm's reach?
Elysium sounds great for a relaxing vacation! But ultimately possibly boring... I might want something a bit more chaotic perhaps?
Yah what is good and evil may be diffrent to various people...... but it's not to the creator gods..... and thats what matters lol They created things, they say they are the good guys, so what they say goes.
Gonna be rough for any kobold petitioners to Bytopia.
i've been waiting for this for 10 thousand years!! thank you sooo much!!
now im excited for the eventual elysium video.. and all the other heavens... thank you...
I had no idea gnomes were such a cool race.
Well shit, when I die I want to go there. Sounds like my kinda place, legit perfect
Are adamantite dragons the same as time dragons? I thought time dragons were the strongest dragons around.
Not stat wise no..despite having adamantine in their name they don't have a crazy high AC or anything, and they're not designed to be wacky Epic level threats like the force, prismatic or time dragons. The only "Adamantine" thing about them is their attacks can target and destroy your gear. The channel "Nic the DM" converted them to 5e if you wanna see how strong they are. He's done a bunch of the Planar dragons
Also technically Stellar dragons are the strongest Eva. Arguably they approach overgod level since a group of them together can create a crystal sphere
@@agentchaos9332 Oh? Damn, that's sick.
Will there be a beast lands episode?
Every "upstate" New Yorker when telling out of state people we live in New York. "Not the city"
11:46 “devils that want to create chaos” hmm…
lol
Pretty sure "Yeoman" is actually spelled "Yeomama" on that map. As in "Yo Mama", a pronunciation I'd consider canon since it keeps with the tounge-in-cheek nature of gnomes
I agree. The biggest city in the land is Yeomama. All roads lead to Yeomama. Yeomama has a huge population of gnomes.
Taxes don’t exist here? I’m down, let’s go
So who's heaven is Shurrok? I might have missed it in the video, but it sounds like the gnomes all want to live in Dothion.
It's for souls who prefer challenging work. Basically it's the place where the raw materials come from so you can picture it as Shurrok is for the woodcutter, Dothion is for the carpenter. Shurrok is for the miner, Dothion is for the smith. Shurrok is for the hunter, Dothion is for the furrier and so on...
@@ifjNagyMiklos see that's what I thought originally, but isn't the largest mine in the multiverse in Dothion not Shurrok?
@@--Cat-- For rare metals like mithril, not for simple iron. Also it's the domain of a deity which can complicate things.
This sounds like my perfect heaven.... up till becoming a gnome
Why the heck can specifically Clangeddin resurrect petitioners that die outside of his heaven? Thats so insanely specific
So they can invade the Lower Planes, specifically Acheron since that's where most orcs and goblinoids go.
Also, it's only *his* petitioners. Still doesn't answer why other crusading war gods can't do the same thing.
Just because you said that now everybody's going to make a campaign about invading them
U can also find Ukko, the chief god of the Finnish. And the fire breath from Ada Dragons are white and they bypass immunities and burn non flammable objects
Like brick and already burnt stuff?
I have a question and I won’t be surprised if you don’t plan on doing this, but for this series are you planning on talking about the Far Realm?
There's not much lore in D&D on the actual far realm, other then the effects it has on our reality and the creatures that came here from there. There's the living gate, a brief summary of the popular aberrations that are from there, the difference between Far Realm Elder evils and Oberyths, and the mechanics from several editions ago, when there were rules for PCs going there. Otherwise there's no notable.locations or geography within the Far realm and very little about the elder evils themselves, since the Elder evils we have lore on are the ones that are already in our reality( Like Atropus, who may not have even come from the far realm originally)
@@agentchaos9332 Ahhh ok. I still think a video on it could be interesting, even if it’s a shorter one compared to the others.
What happens if your favorite God isn't in your favorite outer plane?
I.e. if my wizard were to join with any God, it would be Mystra, but he would prefer to spend his afterlife in Bytopia, not Elesium.
I don't know if you take requests, but if you do, could you do a video on hades. I'm writing a campaign that's going to pass through there, and i don't know what it's like, so i'm kinda stuck.
2nd this even if Hades most dangerous feature is that
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you can literally bore yourself to death.
The main thing to mention is that naturally there are no colors there. Everything is just some shade of grey. If anyone does bring color there, it's basically blinding.
The whole plane drains emotion and color until until nothing is left but grey and despair. Nasty place, hands-down the plane I'd want to avoid at all costs.
When I was a kid I remember reading about it and doing some art, love how crazy the gnome heaven is🌟9/10
24:10 "taxes don't exist here" ..sign me up
So... what about Carceri, for our next outer plane?
What a great heaven. No liberal free loaders who want their gibmes
A fate worse than death - being transformed into gnome
My god! Imagine the varieties of Gian Space Hamster there could be in the Golden Hills.
Pls keep talking about the less focused on Planes
Always been curious, what happened when you "die" in one of the heavens in dnd?
Edit: alright, the question was answered later.
Another excellent video! Please please please please make a video on the other outer planes! Especially Ysgard, because that plane does not get enough attention! And it’s literally the home of the Norse gods, the Seelie court, and the tree of life! Yet, when I talk about it no one knows what I’m talking about and think I’m speaking of something from like marvel comics.
Dude I can see a campaign setting in Bytopia where you can make the main villain's plan to destroy the pillars to see just what would happen. Like not even caring about the end result, or what happens to the people and animals. Pure chaotic neutral/evil.
To me I see good and evil like this:
Evil: can be either greed or the purposeful hurting of others
good: can be either a drive to help people or an internal push towards equal treatment.
More complex motives always relay back to these factors.
On one side of the spectrum wanting to indulge your lust for blood is a form of greed (in a broader sense of the word greed), so if a creature has a heavy tendency for slaughter it makes a character evil even if it chooses not to act on these urges.
On the other side, killing goblins to prevent them from harming innocent civilians is a community serving idea, so even though the act of killing could be seen as 'evil' in less strict definitions, the fact that harming was never the intent but rather the means to protect the community, makes it a good act.
If you can imagine what drives your character, you can deduce their allignment without being like "omg I never know which one to fill in". You just add all the goods and the bads, and depending on the severity of all their goods and evils you end up in good, bad or somewhere in the middle.
I once played a character that was good to almost anyone, but whenever he was in a bad situation he would suddenly become a selfish prick. Imagine a guy buying rounds in the pub, being liked by almost everyone and helping people out with whatever they need. But as soon as there's a chance of him getting arrested or whatever he would literally throw people under the bus to save his skin.
This character was 90% "a bit good" (he also wanted a good reputation so not thát purehearted) but in that 10% he was so bad that people wondered why I didn't have good allignment on his sheet until they witnessed it.
"It's easy to be a saint in paradice"
- Cap. Benjamen Sisko.
Greed is not inherently evil. Excessive greed is. As is excessive anything. Even excessive charity is self-destructive and self-defeating. It leads to unneeded suffering, and minimizes your Good impact.
Similarly, push towards equal treatment... is not inherently good. It is most certainly lawful, though. You have rules for treatment of others (even if unwritten), and everyone is processed and treated in accordance with those rules.
Now, for my one-sentence explanations:
Evil ranges from the callous disregard to the active harming of others.
Good, on the other hand, ranges from those actively trying to help others.... and nowhere else.
Being Good is hard. Simply being a distant well-wisher is at best an innocent neutral character. And not taking into account the Good that you would be doing.... means you aren't doing it for the Good of it. Meanwhile, a character that's just casually salting the earth and burning the fields because "eh. I'm bored," has a clear disregard for the harm they cause, even if not doing it to actively hurt anyone.
Great video. Loving the Planes, individually and in depth.
You might be the only TH-camr that I look forward to hearing the Patreons for.
My God Thank You. I live in NY. Not "The City," but Central New York. I have to explain that to so many people while talking online. Hahaha.
Good Versus Evil, I did a Video on that one, Basically the thing I have come down to is a combination of Intent and modus operandi, So as far as intent natural creatures are neutral, and taking an action without intending the good of other or the good of yourself simply surviving in in that category, Neutral, but what was that I just brought up Good of others versus Good of self, well that goes into the Modus Operandi, the mode of operation, See actions taken purely for the good of others, with no thought to the consiquense lean good, where as actions taken with the intent SOULY of good for yourself lean evil, but into that then is layered the method of reaching the goal, because it doesn't matter how much good your intent if you out way your actions with the sacrifice of Countless others, and it is this third pillar that good and evil rest, what is Sacrificed, to sacrifice yourself to help others is truely good act, to sacrifice yourself to benefit yourself is neutral, to sacrifice others to benefit others is neutral and to sacrifice others for the betterment of yourself is raw evil, now there are of course degrees, as Sacrifcing others for the benefit of others is likely to fall evil because of how quickly evil can pile on especially if one of those "others" Benefiting is you at which point to some degree it is sacrificing others for benefit to yourself... but I ramble.
So in conclusion, The argument of good versus evil can best be proken down into 3 layers,
first intent, to act on instinct and without intent can not be deemed either evil or good and it is part of being humanoid that we act almost entirely on intent
Second Beneficiary, who will reap the rewards of the actions taken
and Finally payment, of whom are sacrifices made to achieve the end result.
It is not necesarrily evil to strive for personal power, until others have to be sacrificed for your personal gains
and it is not necessarily good to stop a disaster if it costs everyone that which they are unwilling to give up.
Remember if a crowd is allowed to willingly sacrifice for the benefit of others channeling through your action of sacrificing other for the betterment of others than each willing sacrifice is one good action instead of adding to the evil on the one selfish action.
If beings from a heavenly plane die for real in other planes why do summons go back to where they came from?
They only die for real if they're killed on their home plane (which is not the material plane).
@@johnathanmartin1504 does that mean if player characters are summoned to other planes the same rule applies?
@@millgiass No, because outer planar creatures are basically made of the fabric of the planes they come from. It makes them basically immortal.
PC's are mortal beings with souls. If they're summoned and die, they're dead. Fun fact: if you're on another plane and someone summons something from that plane, that something can be you, a mortal adventurer.
Im writing a book right now that is fantasy based. The world its in sounds alot like this one. Officially recognized forms of currency dont really exist and the most valuable assets are information and books. Everything is done by trade. Pelts, materials, meat, herbs. Things that can be used, rather than valued as currency just cuz. Interesting concept.
Well. I never wanted to be a gnome before... truly does sound like a paradise. lol.
I don't understand why people think DND alignment is so confusing. It's a matter of intent. If your intentions are benevolent, then your alignment shifts towards good. If your intent is malevolent your alignment shifts towards evil. Full stop. Nothing more need be considered.
Rhexx thank you dude I got crazy inspiration from this about my own campaign. Any cool crazy wizard trying to protect his dungeon might try to get an adamantine dragon at some point so would be cool to have them stumble on a portal to bitopia(:
Do you have any other videos about the afterlife in D&D? I'm really curious about what happens to non religious folk
MrRhexx, you are talking like a Clueless... haven't you heard about the Center of All rule?
What do you think it would happen to every Material World if the ideological manifestation of rural society were to be destroyed?... congratulations, now you are thinking like a Yugoloth, fortunately, we have really good rates for hiring mercenaries...