Sorry for the soft thumping sound you may hear in this video, my chair was knocking on a USB cable and the microphone was picking up the vibration. I tried to edit it out, but it just made the audio worse, so, I hope it doesn't bother anyone too much.
Somebody will, I was just hoping to explain why in one post instead of 10 different replies. Thanks for the feedback The one and only Dr Nasty Flaps. :)
I was going to post that there was a thumping sound just so it was noted before your next video. The quality of content out weighs any negative from a minor sound issue in my book.
As an electical engineer who works in signal processing and wireless comms i like your radio explaination.... the planes are orthogonal to each other and infinite in their vector subspace
Have a lich use a voidstone throne in an obsidian throne room as a final "up yours" - turns out that the "magical" throne, which was the "seat of power" is a final act of petty revenge upon any who would dare to usurp his throne ;-P
@@kingmasterlord Nah - I prefer incendiary runes. That way the silly adventurers reading my mail are more likely to believe the information in the letter was accurate. P.S. Proud owner of Grimtooth's traps Won through Ate😲
My main character, who was an evil necromancer, eventually came to reside there, and our DMs ran a year long solo campaign with us all before the epilogue to do a x many years later, and this way we got to shape it. Eventually, my character, who was a lich at this point became the Dead Crown, a verifiable Boogeyman for mortals thereafter, the ruler of the Negative Energy Plane, in a kingdom of graves, the man who laid siege to death and ruled it ever more. So that was fun. Twas a good campaign, and this was a fun video, as always.
Interesting to see that there are some places so hostile that even the most powerful undead must be very wary or risk being destroyed or worse. And that giant glass orb is nothing short of ominous. It makes me wonder what an adventure involving undead players would be like. Great video on a really interesting subject!
"It doesn't care for good or evil. Law or chaos. It only seeks to devour all that is. Reducing the multiverse to cold lifeless ruins." ::Rodney Dangerfield voice:: Sounds like my wife! o_O
I read that a cleric or a wizard can teleport to the positive energy plane for a second or two to get fully healed so can a Lich teleport to the negative energy plane to heal? Larloch had a hidden room with negative energy traps which he used to heal himself too...
I kinda like the 2ed edition take on the planes; the negitive material plane is only accessible by traversing the quasi negitive planes(ash, salt, vaccumm, & dust). Its a barren wasteland of pure darkness. Without strong protect, you would be quickly be drained of life, heat, light, and soon your remains would disintegrate. There is only one native "lifeform", a dark spherelike being with tenecles, truely alien. Demi elementals from the adjacent negitive planes can act as guide, but they are highly untrustworthy. There is not much to see deep in, as most matter breaks down fast. Undead can be found here in there. The voidstone idea is new and cool.
One way a plane can be infinite and have borders is for each plane to infinite in three dimensions and to assume one or more additional dimensions in which the planes are finite and thus have borders.
There was one man who was exposed to a vaccum for around 1 minute before they could pressurize the chamber he was in. He was alive and survived with few problems. He did not pass out in 15 seconds. His comment on the whole thing was that it was extremely quiet.
In the last session of a recent campaign, my character killed a Tarrasque by sending it to the elemental plane of vaccum. I would have sent it to the negative energy plane, but I didn't want to deal with a nightwalker.
I had a quaint cottage with a single tree and a simple pool enclosed in a one way obsidan bubble. One could see out but not inside. It was tranquil not quite my own demiplane in the negative energy plane. The bubble was powered by negative energy and was self sustaining. I let my character be trapped there rather than charge into a suicidal final battle. Hahaha. Somewhere in the negative energy plane he is safe and trying to make roses bloom in that mere mile and a half bubble.
I have this cool idea in my world were undead can touch voidstone and it's harvested by them and used to make guns that negative energy lasers beams like a trace rifle in Destiny 2
the negative material plane: you shouldn't be able to bring anything out of it and you probably wouldn't want to because everything inside is absolutely insane
Wow, the "ejecting a Nightwalker" thing is a cool concept! And utterly terrifying! I mean, forget about convincing or tricking, trying to physically (magically) FORCE one to go back would be an absolutely massive undertaking! I think if it was my world, I would have it be SOMETIMES that happens. When you enter, the barrier between the Negative Material Plane and the rest of the universe momentarily weakens enough for occupants from the INSIDE to escape! But only the very strong. So, IF a Nightwalker was at/ near the barrier at that precise moment, they can act quickly and push through. And the barrier "attunes"/ links those two beings requiring them BOTH to pass through at the same time IF they ever want to pass through again. THAT way, SOME Planewalkers, ambitious necromancers, etc. DO successfully enter and LEAVE the plane and live to tell the tale! Thus (foolishly) encouraging others to TRY. Not realizing that it is potentially a nigh inescapable Death Trap! (that a "mere" Gate or Wish spell can NOT save your from) And those who don't return, are simply assumed killed by the "normal" dangers of the plane.
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?! No! No~!! Don't slander my "Precious"...! There's a quest right there... gotta use a corrupted ring to travel thru a corrupted realm, fight evil as you fight for your sanity!
I like to think that somewhere in the plane of salt there is a graveyard of ancient yellow dragon bones; that as they get into their final days there is an urge to go back to their element.
Michael Scotts Interesting. I personally interpreted the negative energy plane in a more “everything is just wrong” way. Before I learned that it basically is the shadowfell on steroids I imagined a party of adventurers entering and everything simply “decaying” into a lesser state. For example if you have a steel sword then it’ll start to slowly petrify or maybe get all bendy. A very charismatic individual would slowly become more introverted and xenophobic. Frost spells would burn, fire spells would freeze, rapid aging would occure etc. I thought of the negative energy plane as a realm where everything was just “wrong”.
I wish they could of had videos back in the 80's and not just music videos. Thank you AJ as always you are a wealth of information. Have a great day AJ.
I swear, AJ, you're gonna get me fired! Almost time to go to work, but you got this and I'm like 'what the hay'. Your channel is the nerd equivalent of when your girl is insisting on one last round before you gotta catch a plane. You may be late, but doesn't matter, awesome time.
Hey King of Lore can you do a video on the elemental plane of water??? My group just got sucked up in a vortex and landed on the plain and as a DM I like to know more about it and I thought this channel would be the best to explain it
Great video, AJ. Having all of this info compressed inside a half hour is very useful. You've helped me with my lore many times in the past, so as a GM you have my gratitude.
I have Void-stone in my world as it's used by darkness, but it is made, it's a wet stone as it has lots of mana not good for much as in building, but through processing basically over a pit of lava and can be pressed and rolled sweating the mana from it, naturally, it will shrink, and cause the stone to be void, nonseeable past it. As it was used in panels, darkness had a tunnel system through it to get around being detected and was also used by darkness in portals to travel through.
I was thinking about a lich who is trying to conquer a country by having his cultists travel to the negative energy plane. He would then use the night walkers to slaughter cities until they gave into his rule. After that he would have the now useless night walkers go back to the negative plane by sacrificing a large pile of people to each
damn it A.J. ya got my gears turning again before I could get threw the video. lol so thank you sir. so thoughts. You were saying undead were full of rage at the living in/on the prime materal plane. So I had a idea of giving undead based on their challance rating or hit die, levels of frenzy from 3.5 since undead have no constition. raise their str, dex, and movement speed for so many rounds. lol just something with a twist. lol
Yeah, you could get really gnarly with an undead fight, even have it so a lich or necromancer is shifting the undead spirits around, so, sends in some zombies, a few get cut to shreds by the party, one of the NPC's gets slammed to death, the lich points and commands the entities to possess the dead NPC, it raises up as a new zombie, the players are doing well, cutting into the zombies and then, another command and the zombies charge the player characters and their skeletons literally rip themselves out of their own flesh in an effort to stun the characters with how horrific this is, meanwhile, the lich has summoned a wraith, right, behind, them.
Ok , im not sure where i found that info , so it might be some homebrew or not canon , but if i remember correctly , there is a self proclaimed Archomental living in the quazi-elemental plane of ash , Gazra the shifting emperor , a great lord of ash elementals with a vendetta against the plane of fire , his goal is to snuff it out and expand his kingdom of ash, and i find him very interesting for that, he sounds like your typical shadowy BBEG reaching for world domination , but taken from the perspective of the elemental planes . Imagine a campaign set entirely in all of the elemental planes with the players taking role of their inhabitants , going on a great adventure to stop the hateful ash lord from destroying the very primal concept of flame and heat in the multiverse.
came to sneak a minuet, stayed for more than ten. "death is no escape" has to be one of my favourate tropes, also shared by DC's phantom zone, the great universal "humbler".
After hearing about the dangers of the positive energy plane and the dangers about this one, I have an incredibly stupid/dangerous idea... mostly it is to create crystals that contain a little of the essence of the positive and energy planes, find a way with said crystals to convert positive energy to negative and vice versa, then use those crystals as well as a few other odds and ends to become a Demilitch. After all that I will go on a rampage between the realms just blasting fools.
If you somehow survive that experience (including if your undead), I wouldn't be suprised if your DM uses an inevitable or some other planar balancing being.
It would explode quite violently, possibly dealing no actual damage from the energy's canceling out, but I make no promises about the blast they would create on the prime material plane or the resulting attention of the residents of said plains. But then again I had the thought of a neat trick for a high lvl Drow would be a bag of handy sacks. A bag of holding woven out of spider silk where it's a bunch of bags of holding inside of a bag of holding where they all loop back into the bottom internal bag that was a handy haversack would be cool.... It was, the explosion was not. Lol
The Negative Quasi-Elemental Plane of Dust is such a gloomy and yet pretty dead and stagnant place, where my high level party ended up in forgotten crypt, fighting off a Demi-Lich who basically was in slumber and was taking his time in dying etc. Lets say they were around 17-19th level and they had to evacuate.
So, I take it that if you had to get there, it would be better to hope to turn yourself into an undead rather protective matters about that at best could be like slapping on sunscreen and hoping that would protect you from lava? Like some sort of super astral projection.
While "negative energy" does occur in real world physics, the Negative Energy described in D&D seems to have more in common with Entropy. Entropy is what causes matter and energy to dissipate which is what happens in the NEP. Entropy tends to be harder to explain than energy.
A soul trapped in the nine hells can eventually become a devil, maybe even a greater one, with good work and motivation. A soul trapped in the negative energy plane becomes a tortured shell of its living self with absolutely no means of escape.
You did a great job covering the negative material planes and did justice for the Sphere of Annihilation. One thing my players often were confused by and FAR later discovered, the difference between Quasi-Elemental Ash and Elemental Ice. One was anti-heat and the other was cold, a great way to challenge all players of any experience. Seriously, they all read the DMG, only recruits did not read it all. A Cube the Sphere all the time. My last group of veterans who went against the Ice Queen (Ash linked) were shocked by her great defense against them and nearly forgot about the quasi-elemental ash. Her minions were all about ice and cold, she did the major magics that bypassed their scrying and other things. I did give them hints with Ash Quasi-Elemental based beings as part of their encounters in the primarily Ice based kingdom. So silly of me, making my intellectual players think in a role-playing (intellectual) game.
AJ Pickett Does this void stone have any kind of super-efficient fuel like properties like anti-matter does? Seems like it should. Its super powerful and super volatile, the stuff should have some uses besides just making spheres of annihilation...
Unfortunataly, Voidstone doesn't explode violently on contact with ordinary matter, however, it is probably a component of Spelljammer ship Helms that run on draining the life out of creatures.
@@BlaineCraner explain the bodies in the astral plane then Upon reveiw, my comment sounds bad aloud. Dont mean to be egregious, dont have the language and brainpower to formulate it another way, sleepy, overworked, 2am, etc
@@ParadoX505 No worries! ^^ Also, the Astral Plane bodies are Gods. And these guys can re-animate when faith in them returns. Their essence doesn't go anywhere. They are beings of thought belonging to the outer planes, while the negative energy plane is a material plane belonging in the inner planar group.
Whoa. Elemental rock salt filled shotgun shells. 🤔 Not an original idea but they didn't have an elemental plane of salt in Supernatural... That makes that ammunition 10 times worse. 😆
My theory is that the positive and negative energy planes were once a single plane that was rip apart by the gods as punishment for some horrible crime
Might use this on a player one day. You're stranded in the Plane of Negative Energy, you see a skeleton. Just as you start to raise your weapons in defence, it hugs you... then another... and another. Pretty soon you can’t see anything but the bodies clinging to you.
Taking your ethereal plane video's view on Ectoplasm into account, how would Voidstone affect the boundary between Ethereal Stuff and Material Real Stuff? I am trying to imagine hos two powerful pseudodivine negative energy monsters clashing could cause a flash-nuke explosion or tear- only its not radioactive material left behind but insyead life-draining (anauroch-style) Voidstone.
@@AJPickett but is Realstuff matter or is Pseudostuff matter? How do voidantimatter, ectoplasm pseudostuff, and material realstuff relate? PLEASE dearest AJ
Ectoplasm _mechanically_ has no relation to Voidstone. I'd imagine that ectoplasm is the semi-materialized gooey threads of the negative and prime border. Meaning incorporeal undead may still be in the negative even while they attack the prime, however this would implicate far stronger uses of ectoplasm that I'd rather avoid allowing piss-ants with ethereal jaunt to discover. Portable holes are a powerful enough [common] product of the ethereal, I'm not going to fill it with [oil of instant epic undead].
The C'tan and Necrons/Nulls of Warhammer come to mind as to why they displace warp/"positive energy", they are physical embodiments of the Negative Material Plane...
Every time I hear the word "primordial" my mind pictures "elementals". Should they be thought of like that??? Or should primordials be thought of more like a "great old ones" kind of thing??
I like to think of them like some of the greek titans like nyx , hypnos or tartarus , elemental in nature but not bound by conventional elements , winter , fear , volcanoes , the sky itself , concept of insects , its all on the table.
Hey AJ? Have you made a video on the grimalkin yet? A fairly fascinating creature that would make for an excellent animal companion or wizard's familiar. Another suggestion I don't think you have up that's one of my favorite creatures is the gray render. Having one of those things all of a sudden show up tearing apart a village then suddenly seeing one of the player characters and following them around like a lost puppy is absolutely hilarious.
Crap that's depressingly scary. A void stone placed on earth could slowly travel the world slowly exterminating all life to the last man/thing in a non magic world. Basically have to lure it into a dense rocket and launch it deep into space hoping it cant jerk itself or destroy the rocket before it can get it far enough away to just keep going.
There's a stat block for them as well. Umbral blot. They're only..oh CR32. So a void stone the size of a basketball is just a bit more destructive then a tarrasque :)
Since everything has energy maybe the negative energy plane only has matter that can exist in low energy environments. Like how ice can only exist at 0 degrees but that still has enough energy to exist. Dose that make sense?
AJ: What is the connection (if any) between the Shadowfell and the Negative Material Plane, as well as between the Fey Wild and the Positive Material Plane?
As far as I know, the Feywild is not directly connected to the positive material plane, any more than usual. They shadowfell is, however, connected in particularly dark and nasty parts, to the negative material (or Negative energy) plane. This is more to do with the gods (and book writers) messing around with the plane of shadows, more than any cosmic physics sort of thing. But, I could be wrong.
I mean, when it comes down to it, it's all made up physics anyway, isn't it? If you're wrong, but it still works, you aren't wrong. And all you have to do is say it works, and it does. Dungeon Mastering, everybody! It's all magic.
so, i got an idea from one of your vidoes, but your skeleton reminded me of this, would that soul that is put into the skeleton have memories of its past? or does it not have a past from the material plane at all?
I'd be inclined to say No, however... in the lore of Spelljammer, it has been noted that skeletons in wildspace tend to display rudimentary tactics and such... why would they?
have a few things i don't understand : when you say that when you go to the negative energy plane you can't go back as long as the nightshade is not sent back, do you mean you can traverse a portal to there but not immediatly come back by said portal ? or is it impossible to plane shift/open a portal from within the negative energy plane ? Can you plane shift here and exit it by the portal toward sigil (without dealing with the nightshade) ? And can you open a portal/plane shift in the plane's boundaries to go the the paraelemental planes around it (again without dealing with the nightshade) ? Can you prevent the nightshade from appearing ? And where do the undead sould come from ? Do every one of them were people lost in the negative energy plane ?
How can an infinite space have a boundary? It's a projective space. Loosely put, a projective space includes points at infinity where parallel lines intersect.
@@SkyTheBlessed Not all finite objects have a boundary. Here are four: a circle, a sphere, a torus, and a Klein bottle. A correction: hyperbolic space is a much better illustration of the image I was trying to get across, not projective space. (My focus is analysis, not geometry.) A wonderful example is Escher's Circle Limit IV, aka Heaven and Hell. The circular boundary is infinitely far away from the interior. (This can also be used to "explain" how one can see the top of the infinitely tall Spire; in hyperbolic space, an infinitely tall object only subtends an acute angle, unless you're literally right next to it.)
@@DemonDragonGD Actually, this was geometry. I have a bad habit of only putting down half my thoughts. (I have another bad habit wherein I over-explain to compensate.) I was excusing myself for referencing projective space when hyperbolic space was much more appropriate, as my mathematical focus (in college) was more on analysis (calculus etc.) than geometry. Again, look at Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell) by M. C. Escher for a better picture. (It's actually on the cover of the geometry text used in my undergraduate class on geometry it's so good.)
Not very hard, usually one has to travel via the Ethereal plane to get there, and yes, if you throw a cow through the portal, somewhere or other, a Nightwalker is released.
very cool video Aj ... question 1 in the positive plane there was a border plane ... the quasielemental plane of radiance, this negative plane seems to lack a border plane, question 2: so ¿who are these doomguard? they seem interesting a future video of them maybe ? i mean they apparently have built some citadels in some of the most inhospitalbe places in the multiverse so they sound cool at least P.D the far realm and the positive and negative elemental planes are certainly my favorite planes
The Border plane is basically the Shadowfell, there is some mention of the danger of portals (curtains) to the negative plane within the deep ethereal plane, that they can be subject to the same storms of intense negative energy and actually swallow up travellers who had no intention of crossing over, like an unstable wormhole that snatches a starship and deposits it in a desolate void. The Doomguard is a faction in the Planescape setting, so, they concern themselves with a particular philosophy about how the cosmos works, what it is for, what the point of it all is, in their case they (nicknamed the Sinkers) believe that entropy will always win, it is for the best, and the only natural fate of the universe. A future video on the Planescape factions is a great idea! I love the more exotic planes as well, the weirdest creatures are the ones adapted to the most extreme conditions.
It used to border the quasielemental plans of shadow? Radiance borders the Positive ENERGY plans though. Positive energy plane borders: the quasi-elemental planes or lightning, steam, minerals, and radiance. Negative borders: Salt, vacuum, ash, and dust.
I have this idea of a society that has advanced technology that uses Negative Energy. How did they discover it and learn how to use it without destroying their civilization? I have no idea yet 😅
@@MisterTutor2010 Hawking radiation is theoretical at this time; it has yet to be observed. It is due to quantum foam particle annihilation being disrupted by an event horizon and would be VERY slow to influence the incredible mass of a singularity, we are talking trillions of years here. It's very sexy for science fiction writers, but probably not that interesting in reality.
Sorry for the soft thumping sound you may hear in this video, my chair was knocking on a USB cable and the microphone was picking up the vibration. I tried to edit it out, but it just made the audio worse, so, I hope it doesn't bother anyone too much.
AJ Pickett didn't hear anything like that.
Somebody will, I was just hoping to explain why in one post instead of 10 different replies. Thanks for the feedback The one and only Dr Nasty Flaps. :)
Meh, I hadn't noticed before reading this, and now I cannot stop focusing on it.
I was going to post that there was a thumping sound just so it was noted before your next video. The quality of content out weighs any negative from a minor sound issue in my book.
Apologies.
As an electical engineer who works in signal processing and wireless comms i like your radio explaination.... the planes are orthogonal to each other and infinite in their vector subspace
Excuse me while I write that down...
Linear Algebra, unreal as any sorcery :)
Have a lich use a voidstone throne in an obsidian throne room as a final "up yours" - turns out that the "magical" throne, which was the "seat of power" is a final act of petty revenge upon any who would dare to usurp his throne ;-P
Very nasty, and totally appropriate. :)
you're the type of mfr that writes 'do not read this sign' in explosive runes, ain't you?
@@kingmasterlord Nah - I prefer incendiary runes. That way the silly adventurers reading my mail are more likely to believe the information in the letter was accurate.
P.S. Proud owner of Grimtooth's traps Won through Ate😲
Plans of salt:
10 out of 10 Topaz dragons recommend it!
My main character, who was an evil necromancer, eventually came to reside there, and our DMs ran a year long solo campaign with us all before the epilogue to do a x many years later, and this way we got to shape it.
Eventually, my character, who was a lich at this point became the Dead Crown, a verifiable Boogeyman for mortals thereafter, the ruler of the Negative Energy Plane, in a kingdom of graves, the man who laid siege to death and ruled it ever more.
So that was fun. Twas a good campaign, and this was a fun video, as always.
You feel a wave of depression sweep over you, and you turn to see that Marvin the robot has stalked miserably into the plane.
An Infocom fan, I see.
Interesting to see that there are some places so hostile that even the most powerful undead must be very wary or risk being destroyed or worse. And that giant glass orb is nothing short of ominous. It makes me wonder what an adventure involving undead players would be like. Great video on a really interesting subject!
"It doesn't care for good or evil. Law or chaos. It only seeks to devour all that is. Reducing the multiverse to cold lifeless ruins."
::Rodney Dangerfield voice::
Sounds like my wife! o_O
Also evil.
I read that a cleric or a wizard can teleport to the positive energy plane for a second or two to get fully healed so can a Lich teleport to the negative energy plane to heal? Larloch had a hidden room with negative energy traps which he used to heal himself too...
Yeah, I would say that is a legit evil bad ex-person tactic.
Unprepared explorers when they arrive at the plane of dust:
“I don’t feel so good”
(Breaks apart)
It's kind like being stuck at the end of Infinity War :)
I'm impressed that you read NASAs report on what happens to humans in a void. 5/5
I kinda like the 2ed edition take on the planes; the negitive material plane is only accessible by traversing the quasi negitive planes(ash, salt, vaccumm, & dust). Its a barren wasteland of pure darkness. Without strong protect, you would be quickly be drained of life, heat, light, and soon your remains would disintegrate. There is only one native "lifeform", a dark spherelike being with tenecles, truely alien. Demi elementals from the adjacent negitive planes can act as guide, but they are highly untrustworthy. There is not much to see deep in, as most matter breaks down fast. Undead can be found here in there. The voidstone idea is new and cool.
One way a plane can be infinite and have borders is for each plane to infinite in three dimensions and to assume one or more additional dimensions in which the planes are finite and thus have borders.
*mind blown* I had not considered that
Well put.
There was one man who was exposed to a vaccum for around 1 minute before they could pressurize the chamber he was in. He was alive and survived with few problems. He did not pass out in 15 seconds. His comment on the whole thing was that it was extremely quiet.
Well of course he's in a vacuum there is no air to carry sound waves.
From the US thank you for starting Memorial Day weekend off the right way with this excellent video
Negative Material Planes. Been there, done that... Hello darkness, my old friend...
Today i learned how a radio works xD
In the last session of a recent campaign, my character killed a Tarrasque by sending it to the elemental plane of vaccum. I would have sent it to the negative energy plane, but I didn't want to deal with a nightwalker.
Tarrasque: WOOOORRRGGG!!! WOOOORRRGGG!!! OwÓ *pOOF!* (Inside the vaccum) Worgg? Worrggg? Litchs and Beholders: FRESH MEAT!! Tarrasque: NOORRRGGGGGG!!! óWo
The plane of PURE ITCHYNESS.
It's funny and realy acurate how easy a powerfull necromancer can enter and leave the plane since it can domimate the nightwalker easy xD
awesome video A.J . if i ever need to get rid of a aboleth i now know to send it to its salty doom .
Oooooo... yeah, they would be most upset about that, lol!
I had a quaint cottage with a single tree and a simple pool enclosed in a one way obsidan bubble. One could see out but not inside. It was tranquil not quite my own demiplane in the negative energy plane. The bubble was powered by negative energy and was self sustaining. I let my character be trapped there rather than charge into a suicidal final battle. Hahaha. Somewhere in the negative energy plane he is safe and trying to make roses bloom in that mere mile and a half bubble.
I have this cool idea in my world were undead can touch voidstone and it's harvested by them and used to make guns that negative energy lasers beams like a trace rifle in Destiny 2
the negative material plane: you shouldn't be able to bring anything out of it and you probably wouldn't want to because everything inside is absolutely insane
Wow, the "ejecting a Nightwalker" thing is a cool concept! And utterly terrifying!
I mean, forget about convincing or tricking, trying to physically (magically) FORCE one to go back would be an absolutely massive undertaking!
I think if it was my world, I would have it be SOMETIMES that happens. When you enter, the barrier between the Negative Material Plane and the rest of the universe momentarily weakens enough for occupants from the INSIDE to escape! But only the very strong. So, IF a Nightwalker was at/ near the barrier at that precise moment, they can act quickly and push through. And the barrier "attunes"/ links those two beings requiring them BOTH to pass through at the same time IF they ever want to pass through again.
THAT way, SOME Planewalkers, ambitious necromancers, etc. DO successfully enter and LEAVE the plane and live to tell the tale!
Thus (foolishly) encouraging others to TRY. Not realizing that it is potentially a nigh inescapable Death Trap! (that a "mere" Gate or Wish spell can NOT save your from) And those who don't return, are simply assumed killed by the "normal" dangers of the plane.
With my abilities to bottle up my emotions and be consistently filled negativity, I could rulenthis plain
Plane of Elemental Salt is ruled over by a being known as Lotswife :)
Sounds legit.
I was expecting morton
@@glennhouston5686 That's a sea captain there.
Do you need to eat or drink? Frustrated with the need to sleep? Having trouble with the vacuum of space? Sounds like you need a Ring of Sustinance! Order now! (Ring Manufacturers NOT responsible for injury/harm brought about from travel destinations accessable through the use of this ring.)
Whenever my players use one of those things, I warn them it is a gateway item that may lead to Lichdom.
?! No! No~!! Don't slander my "Precious"...!
There's a quest right there... gotta use a corrupted ring to travel thru a corrupted realm, fight evil as you fight for your sanity!
*puts on ring* great, I don't feel hungry or thirsty.. whats that ring? Why yes, I do crave human flesh!
I like to think that somewhere in the plane of salt there is a graveyard of ancient yellow dragon bones; that as they get into their final days there is an urge to go back to their element.
When I first heard of the Negative Energy Plane I imagined a world that looked like a planet sized sphere of annihilation in looks.
Not to far off in execution
Michael Scotts Interesting. I personally interpreted the negative energy plane in a more “everything is just wrong” way. Before I learned that it basically is the shadowfell on steroids I imagined a party of adventurers entering and everything simply “decaying” into a lesser state.
For example if you have a steel sword then it’ll start to slowly petrify or maybe get all bendy. A very charismatic individual would slowly become more introverted and xenophobic. Frost spells would burn, fire spells would freeze, rapid aging would occure etc. I thought of the negative energy plane as a realm where everything was just “wrong”.
I wish they could of had videos back in the 80's and not just music videos. Thank you AJ as always you are a wealth of information. Have a great day AJ.
I swear, AJ, you're gonna get me fired! Almost time to go to work, but you got this and I'm like 'what the hay'. Your channel is the nerd equivalent of when your girl is insisting on one last round before you gotta catch a plane. You may be late, but doesn't matter, awesome time.
XD #WorthIt lol!
"And Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes tells you why."
*BECAUSE YOU DIE.*
(Is this the Negative ENERGY or MATERIAL planes?)
Both.
Well, matter *is* energy so....
Thank you for this one! I love most everything uploaded but this old gem stands out from a crowd of fine content
Hey King of Lore can you do a video on the elemental plane of water??? My group just got sucked up in a vortex and landed on the plain and as a DM I like to know more about it and I thought this channel would be the best to explain it
Great video, AJ. Having all of this info compressed inside a half hour is very useful. You've helped me with my lore many times in the past, so as a GM you have my gratitude.
I have Void-stone in my world as it's used by darkness, but it is made, it's a wet stone as it has lots of mana not good for much as in building, but through processing basically over a pit of lava and can be pressed and rolled sweating the mana from it, naturally, it will shrink, and cause the stone to be void, nonseeable past it. As it was used in panels, darkness had a tunnel system through it to get around being detected and was also used by darkness in portals to travel through.
I was thinking about a lich who is trying to conquer a country by having his cultists travel to the negative energy plane. He would then use the night walkers to slaughter cities until they gave into his rule. After that he would have the now useless night walkers go back to the negative plane by sacrificing a large pile of people to each
damn it A.J. ya got my gears turning again before I could get threw the video. lol so thank you sir. so thoughts. You were saying undead were full of rage at the living in/on the prime materal plane. So I had a idea of giving undead based on their challance rating or hit die, levels of frenzy from 3.5 since undead have no constition. raise their str, dex, and movement speed for so many rounds. lol just something with a twist. lol
Yeah, you could get really gnarly with an undead fight, even have it so a lich or necromancer is shifting the undead spirits around, so, sends in some zombies, a few get cut to shreds by the party, one of the NPC's gets slammed to death, the lich points and commands the entities to possess the dead NPC, it raises up as a new zombie, the players are doing well, cutting into the zombies and then, another command and the zombies charge the player characters and their skeletons literally rip themselves out of their own flesh in an effort to stun the characters with how horrific this is, meanwhile, the lich has summoned a wraith, right, behind, them.
Ok , im not sure where i found that info , so it might be some homebrew or not canon , but if i remember correctly , there is a self proclaimed Archomental living in the quazi-elemental plane of ash , Gazra the shifting emperor , a great lord of ash elementals with a vendetta against the plane of fire , his goal is to snuff it out and expand his kingdom of ash, and i find him very interesting for that, he sounds like your typical shadowy BBEG reaching for world domination , but taken from the perspective of the elemental planes .
Imagine a campaign set entirely in all of the elemental planes with the players taking role of their inhabitants , going on a great adventure to stop the hateful ash lord from destroying the very primal concept of flame and heat in the multiverse.
came to sneak a minuet, stayed for more than ten. "death is no escape" has to be one of my favourate tropes, also shared by DC's phantom zone, the great universal "humbler".
the negative material plane is like a black hole... but its magic and infinitely large
Don't forget the ever popular demi-plane of Dread!
After hearing about the dangers of the positive energy plane and the dangers about this one, I have an incredibly stupid/dangerous idea... mostly it is to create crystals that contain a little of the essence of the positive and energy planes, find a way with said crystals to convert positive energy to negative and vice versa, then use those crystals as well as a few other odds and ends to become a Demilitch. After all that I will go on a rampage between the realms just blasting fools.
If you somehow survive that experience (including if your undead), I wouldn't be suprised if your DM uses an inevitable or some other planar balancing being.
It would explode quite violently, possibly dealing no actual damage from the energy's canceling out, but I make no promises about the blast they would create on the prime material plane or the resulting attention of the residents of said plains. But then again I had the thought of a neat trick for a high lvl Drow would be a bag of handy sacks. A bag of holding woven out of spider silk where it's a bunch of bags of holding inside of a bag of holding where they all loop back into the bottom internal bag that was a handy haversack would be cool.... It was, the explosion was not. Lol
The Negative Quasi-Elemental Plane of Dust is such a gloomy and yet pretty dead and stagnant place, where my high level party ended up in forgotten crypt, fighting off a Demi-Lich who basically was in slumber and was taking his time in dying etc. Lets say they were around 17-19th level and they had to evacuate.
So, I take it that if you had to get there, it would be better to hope to turn yourself into an undead rather protective matters about that at best could be like slapping on sunscreen and hoping that would protect you from lava? Like some sort of super astral projection.
While "negative energy" does occur in real world physics, the Negative Energy described in D&D seems to have more in common with Entropy.
Entropy is what causes matter and energy to dissipate which is what happens in the NEP. Entropy tends to be harder to explain than energy.
Hell: we`re not thaaaaat bad.
lol, on the tourist brochure?
A soul trapped in the nine hells can eventually become a devil, maybe even a greater one, with good work and motivation. A soul trapped in the negative energy plane becomes a tortured shell of its living self with absolutely no means of escape.
You know it's good when you first start with a Jeff Easley illustration.
You did a great job covering the negative material planes and did justice for the Sphere of Annihilation. One thing my players often were confused by and FAR later discovered, the difference between Quasi-Elemental Ash and Elemental Ice. One was anti-heat and the other was cold, a great way to challenge all players of any experience. Seriously, they all read the DMG, only recruits did not read it all. A Cube the Sphere all the time. My last group of veterans who went against the Ice Queen (Ash linked) were shocked by her great defense against them and nearly forgot about the quasi-elemental ash. Her minions were all about ice and cold, she did the major magics that bypassed their scrying and other things. I did give them hints with Ash Quasi-Elemental based beings as part of their encounters in the primarily Ice based kingdom. So silly of me, making my intellectual players think in a role-playing (intellectual) game.
Heh, I can hear the sarcasm dripping from your comments, love it :)
Yes, yes... welcome to the Snark Side. Mastery of sarcasm, we all love. ;)
So it's like space's evil twin, basically.
Yeah. It's like space that makes it's own anti-matter.
AJ Pickett Does this void stone have any kind of super-efficient fuel like properties like anti-matter does? Seems like it should. Its super powerful and super volatile, the stuff should have some uses besides just making spheres of annihilation...
Unfortunataly, Voidstone doesn't explode violently on contact with ordinary matter, however, it is probably a component of Spelljammer ship Helms that run on draining the life out of creatures.
If nightwalkers are undead, imagine how terrifying whatever died to make them must have been...
Gods.
I thought these things were never alive in the first place?
@@BlaineCraner explain the bodies in the astral plane then
Upon reveiw, my comment sounds bad aloud. Dont mean to be egregious, dont have the language and brainpower to formulate it another way, sleepy, overworked, 2am, etc
@@ParadoX505 No worries! ^^
Also, the Astral Plane bodies are Gods. And these guys can re-animate when faith in them returns. Their essence doesn't go anywhere. They are beings of thought belonging to the outer planes, while the negative energy plane is a material plane belonging in the inner planar group.
Nightwalkers look like undead spirits of demons so thats probably what they are
The Nightwalker destroy magic item reminds me of what Hela does to Thor's hammer.
Exactly.
Thanks for the video, AJ!
ohhh just realized the king of shadows from Neverwinter nights 2 is a nightwalker of some kind. Negative energy, the horns same height. Funny that
Iove the image that the material planes are the far realms to the negative energy planes
Maybe not the best thing to watch right before bed. Well done...creepy...but well done.
Ohhh, I got an idea for how to screw over a Balor thats bothering the party i'm in. Big old portal too the plane of salt :D
Cameron Pearce It’s a Balor...Ash would be better.
That could work to
DM : Put down a night walker
every thing in the game : nope nope nope .
High level necros: "ooooo possible shiny new toy...."
I love the new plane videos :)
Whoa. Elemental rock salt filled shotgun shells. 🤔 Not an original idea but they didn't have an elemental plane of salt in Supernatural... That makes that ammunition 10 times worse. 😆
My theory is that the positive and negative energy planes were once a single plane that was rip apart by the gods as punishment for some horrible crime
That's pretty interesting!
Those nightwalkers probably just want a hug. It gets awful cold and lonely out there in the void, you know.
Might use this on a player one day. You're stranded in the Plane of Negative Energy, you see a skeleton. Just as you start to raise your weapons in defence, it hugs you... then another... and another. Pretty soon you can’t see anything but the bodies clinging to you.
I love the artwork from that mtg card Damnation.
20:53 how lofty dreams turn to Nothic 😀
Taking your ethereal plane video's view on Ectoplasm into account, how would Voidstone affect the boundary between Ethereal Stuff and Material Real Stuff? I am trying to imagine hos two powerful pseudodivine negative energy monsters clashing could cause a flash-nuke explosion or tear- only its not radioactive material left behind but insyead life-draining (anauroch-style) Voidstone.
Sounds about right... this stuff is tremendously dangerous.
@@AJPickett but is Realstuff matter or is Pseudostuff matter? How do voidantimatter, ectoplasm pseudostuff, and material realstuff relate? PLEASE dearest AJ
Ectoplasm _mechanically_ has no relation to Voidstone.
I'd imagine that ectoplasm is the semi-materialized gooey threads of the negative and prime border. Meaning incorporeal undead may still be in the negative even while they attack the prime, however this would implicate far stronger uses of ectoplasm that I'd rather avoid allowing piss-ants with ethereal jaunt to discover.
Portable holes are a powerful enough [common] product of the ethereal, I'm not going to fill it with [oil of instant epic undead].
The C'tan and Necrons/Nulls of Warhammer come to mind as to why they displace warp/"positive energy", they are physical embodiments of the Negative Material Plane...
Ya know, I work with beings and energies form here so often I should know what I'm working with.
I must listen to the Fortress of Regrets theme from the Planescape Torement game before listening to this ;]
Every time I hear the word "primordial" my mind pictures "elementals".
Should they be thought of like that???
Or should primordials be thought of more like a "great old ones" kind of thing??
A bit of both, quite often the primordial beings are elemental in nature, but certainly not always. Giant tentacle monsters are another common theme.
I like to think of them like some of the greek titans like nyx , hypnos or tartarus , elemental in nature but not bound by conventional elements , winter , fear , volcanoes , the sky itself , concept of insects , its all on the table.
Is “negative energy plane” and “negative material plane” interchangeable or is there a difference?
Interchangeable.
love the "fizzics"
🤘🏻 - Hail, Yaldabaoth ! ! !
Reality is frequency, and what one perceives as 'real " is so.
5:30 when the beat drops
Can we get a Video on the Doomguard? They sound quite interesting!
The are a faction from Planescape. I'd like to talk more about the factions.
Hey AJ? Have you made a video on the grimalkin yet? A fairly fascinating creature that would make for an excellent animal companion or wizard's familiar. Another suggestion I don't think you have up that's one of my favorite creatures is the gray render. Having one of those things all of a sudden show up tearing apart a village then suddenly seeing one of the player characters and following them around like a lost puppy is absolutely hilarious.
Not yet!
sounds like the soul cairn from skyrim
Nightwalker doesnt have to walk... Alone!
Sounds like FFXIV took a lot of inspiration from this plane when making The Void aka The Thirteenth Reflection.
Crap that's depressingly scary. A void stone placed on earth could slowly travel the world slowly exterminating all life to the last man/thing in a non magic world.
Basically have to lure it into a dense rocket and launch it deep into space hoping it cant jerk itself or destroy the rocket before it can get it far enough away to just keep going.
I'd rather interpret it more like antimatter. Void stone and normal stone cancel out. After consuming its weight in normal matter, it just vanishes.
There's a stat block for them as well. Umbral blot. They're only..oh CR32. So a void stone the size of a basketball is just a bit more destructive then a tarrasque :)
Good video
Wow AJ these last couple of videos have been positively negative 😜
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
Since everything has energy maybe the negative energy plane only has matter that can exist in low energy environments. Like how ice can only exist at 0 degrees but that still has enough energy to exist. Dose that make sense?
So cold, it's hot.
AJ: What is the connection (if any) between the Shadowfell and the Negative Material Plane, as well as between the Fey Wild and the Positive Material Plane?
As far as I know, the Feywild is not directly connected to the positive material plane, any more than usual. They shadowfell is, however, connected in particularly dark and nasty parts, to the negative material (or Negative energy) plane. This is more to do with the gods (and book writers) messing around with the plane of shadows, more than any cosmic physics sort of thing. But, I could be wrong.
I mean, when it comes down to it, it's all made up physics anyway, isn't it? If you're wrong, but it still works, you aren't wrong. And all you have to do is say it works, and it does.
Dungeon Mastering, everybody! It's all magic.
Plane of Vacuum would be a great staging place for a group of undead or Warforged.....hmmmmm.
so, i got an idea from one of your vidoes, but your skeleton reminded me of this, would that soul that is put into the skeleton have memories of its past? or does it not have a past from the material plane at all?
I'd be inclined to say No, however... in the lore of Spelljammer, it has been noted that skeletons in wildspace tend to display rudimentary tactics and such... why would they?
Thanks for the vid sir.
have a few things i don't understand : when you say that when you go to the negative energy plane you can't go back as long as the nightshade is not sent back, do you mean you can traverse a portal to there but not immediatly come back by said portal ? or is it impossible to plane shift/open a portal from within the negative energy plane ? Can you plane shift here and exit it by the portal toward sigil (without dealing with the nightshade) ? And can you open a portal/plane shift in the plane's boundaries to go the the paraelemental planes around it (again without dealing with the nightshade) ? Can you prevent the nightshade from appearing ? And where do the undead sould come from ? Do every one of them were people lost in the negative energy plane ?
Is the shadowfell between the prime and negitve meterial planes?
Yes.
Beacons of EVIL attract undead. Beacons of life and GOOOODNESS attract undead. What is not attracting undead then?
Beacons of undead attract bards
Undead are attracted to any extreme.
Moths
Planes=Dimensions=String theory
How can an infinite space have a boundary? It's a projective space. Loosely put, a projective space includes points at infinity where parallel lines intersect.
Having a boundary is the definition of being finite.
@@SkyTheBlessed Not all finite objects have a boundary. Here are four: a circle, a sphere, a torus, and a Klein bottle.
A correction: hyperbolic space is a much better illustration of the image I was trying to get across, not projective space. (My focus is analysis, not geometry.) A wonderful example is Escher's Circle Limit IV, aka Heaven and Hell. The circular boundary is infinitely far away from the interior. (This can also be used to "explain" how one can see the top of the infinitely tall Spire; in hyperbolic space, an infinitely tall object only subtends an acute angle, unless you're literally right next to it.)
Tom Kerruish never thought i will learn something about... analysis?
@@DemonDragonGD Actually, this was geometry. I have a bad habit of only putting down half my thoughts. (I have another bad habit wherein I over-explain to compensate.) I was excusing myself for referencing projective space when hyperbolic space was much more appropriate, as my mathematical focus (in college) was more on analysis (calculus etc.) than geometry. Again, look at Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell) by M. C. Escher for a better picture. (It's actually on the cover of the geometry text used in my undergraduate class on geometry it's so good.)
Tom Kerruish circles and spheres have boundaries.
How hard is it to travel to negative plane ? and ... would teleporting cows into negative plane summon Nightwalkers ?
Not very hard, usually one has to travel via the Ethereal plane to get there, and yes, if you throw a cow through the portal, somewhere or other, a Nightwalker is released.
very cool video Aj ... question 1 in the positive plane there was a border plane ... the quasielemental plane of radiance, this negative plane seems to lack a border plane, question 2: so ¿who are these doomguard? they seem interesting a future video of them maybe ? i mean they apparently have built some citadels in some of the most inhospitalbe places in the multiverse so they sound cool at least P.D the far realm and the positive and negative elemental planes are certainly my favorite planes
The Border plane is basically the Shadowfell, there is some mention of the danger of portals (curtains) to the negative plane within the deep ethereal plane, that they can be subject to the same storms of intense negative energy and actually swallow up travellers who had no intention of crossing over, like an unstable wormhole that snatches a starship and deposits it in a desolate void. The Doomguard is a faction in the Planescape setting, so, they concern themselves with a particular philosophy about how the cosmos works, what it is for, what the point of it all is, in their case they (nicknamed the Sinkers) believe that entropy will always win, it is for the best, and the only natural fate of the universe. A future video on the Planescape factions is a great idea! I love the more exotic planes as well, the weirdest creatures are the ones adapted to the most extreme conditions.
It used to border the quasielemental plans of shadow?
Radiance borders the Positive ENERGY plans though.
Positive energy plane borders: the quasi-elemental planes or lightning, steam, minerals, and radiance.
Negative borders: Salt, vacuum, ash, and dust.
yeah, the plane of shadow got a bit of an upgrade.
Gosh, i must finally get to look intoo mtof
Do one on the Doom guard
Planescape/cosmic factions, be happy to!
On the plane of Vacuum, light can be seen from veeeeeeeeery far away. Think deeply before you light 1.
I have this idea of a society that has advanced technology that uses Negative Energy. How did they discover it and learn how to use it without destroying their civilization? I have no idea yet 😅
Like a black hole, you use them to generate power from the pull of energy being drawn in and consumed. A pump, essentially.
@@AJPickett Exactly! You can feed it basically anything and get energy out of it.
Yeah, totally not plagiarizing “Doom,” are you 🧐
@@AJPickettNegative energy is why black holes can emit Hawking Radiation while at the same time losing mass.
@@MisterTutor2010 Hawking radiation is theoretical at this time; it has yet to be observed. It is due to quantum foam particle annihilation being disrupted by an event horizon and would be VERY slow to influence the incredible mass of a singularity, we are talking trillions of years here. It's very sexy for science fiction writers, but probably not that interesting in reality.