The Hidden Secrets Of The Astral Plane - D&D

[@MrRhexx]

Remember to check out Dungeons of Drakkenheim! bit.ly/3vOw2m4

[@ralfskrauze7225]

ok

[@ravinsaber]

Excellent vid! 💜

[@BrotherHood-xh9sg]

Was a good serie. Not sure what the algoritme says or the stats of likes & views. But while I find these plane videos interessting. I prefer the videos about monsters a lot more. They give me inspiration for adventures & quests. (Also I feel like it's less world then findinf info about a whole plane)

[@JB-vq6oe]

Love you and your content, MrRhexx, but I’m not touching anything having to do with Dungeon Dudes unless copious amounts of money are involved.

[@jeremystahly3142]

Is the big bad Dr. Drakken??

[@rugerandres7407]

Casting speak with dead on a dead God must have some interesting effects.

[@theFLCLguy]

You'd probably just lose your mind.

[@stevecooper6578]

Best hope they were a good god and not former of mind breaking or the like

[@LgMONSTAa]

Actually MrRhexx talked about that topic to some extent in another video. Gods apparently don't really die, they go into some sort of divine coma where they rest either for all eternity or until they are somehow ressurected.

[@debreczeniarpad9956]

@@LgMONSTAa cast Legend Lore on its body, then build a small shrine and pay off some dozen of commoners to worship the Sleeping Beauty.... Done. Money required: Like 2.000 GP, Time required: Like a tenday.

[@zyztem8775]

@@debreczeniarpad9956 You need tens of people that are DEVOTED (like paladin level devoted), and years before you can resurrect a dead god. Of course your method is valid, just need to crank it up to 11 before you can succeed

[@kevlarstargate4365]

3:56 "The Astral is a land of thots" That's all you needed to say to get my party to go there

[@jonathanwells223]

Considering the type of shit that he usually shows on his channel I was surprised he didn’t make that joke in the video.

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

Funny, I thought that was Anubis at the end of the video, not Thoth... Oh, wait, nevermind! XD

[@ClockworkGearhead]

En route.

[@darklordthomaspie6293]

What does that mean?

[@ClockworkGearhead]

@@darklordthomaspie6293 It means a lot of TikTok vidoes are going to be in the Astral Plane.

[@simonwesterlund2151]

”It’s where you are when you aren’t anywhere else” could be said about a lot of places.

[@ryanford63]

True

[@NomNom1970]

Cleveland...

[@FishDrinkLightGreen]

Like Cambridge Massachusetts

[@alexblasko8174]

Yeah, like the random McDonald's or gas station you always stumble upon when driving randomly. Their stock never changes no matter how many times you've been there.

[@riccardocalosso5688]

It was supposed to be "it's wherever you are, when you aren't anywhere". I believe "else" was added by mistake, due to habit!

[@AlanoxDrekan]

Now I want to play a campaign working for the Pitiless as if they were the SCP Foundation

[@d3str0i3r]

considering it's just like, two brothers, it's more like Warehouse 13 than SCP but either way that would be amazing

[@Ditidos]

@@d3str0i3r One could expand it. Heck, it could actually be a Foundation site in a diferent multiverse for research, which would explain why just two guys and the idea that stuff decays there.

[@Elessar0wind]

You're giving me Loki series vibes. I like it.

[@jacksonquinn8744]

@@Elessar0wind is the series any good ? Curious

[@Elessar0wind]

@@jacksonquinn8744 I mean, I liked it, brings insight of what's possibly coming the marvel universe... I'd say, if you enjoy stories like Doctor Who, basically a wacky scifi/fantasy, then you'd enjoy Loki, especially if you like Loki.

[@simonwesterlund2151]

2:50 Abyss or Ysgard, Elysium or mechanus, take a bet and jump in.

[@cultofnatethemagnificent5879]

"well this doesn't look right" While the party is surrounded by demons.

[@Domdrok]

Great lore-telling. These never feel like 20+ minute videos.

[@necroarcanistxiii]

I usually throw these on as background noise, and by the time I'm invested, it's already over.

[@douxx1016]

"It is where you are when you aren't anywhere else." It has the same energy than "in Africa, every 60 seconds a minute passes."

[@kinagrill]

except in the astral, every 1000 years is a day's worth of time in the real world.

[@Just_Call_Me_Tim]

​@@kinagrill I like your name. 😂 I think it's more like, "for every 1,000 years there, only a day passes in the Prime. But, when you go back, those 1,000 years catches up to you fast!"

[@polerli18]

That cliffhanger was so steep, i slipped and fallen into the astral plane, thanks ;p

[@ianbuchanan7804]

I've had a surprising amount of evil dwarf barbarians get warped into the Astral Plane.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

I had a CN Human end up there with his pet pixie. He, ehr, "force fed" a bag of holding to an advanced Canoloth. He and the Pixie survived, the Canoloth did not.

[@WaltRBuck]

Last time I found an astral portal, it took me to a prime material plane in 2e where we met a heirophant druid that laughed at the pathetic weak 5e druids but marveled at proficiency level wondering what strange world has no thac0.

[@ChestersonJack]

Woah, that’s wild! Going to a different edition of the game? Cool

[@kinagrill]

So.... timetravel. It's a legit thing that the earlier editions were just earlier periods of the timeline.

[@colinsanders9397]

We had a house rule. If your stealth roll goes over 50 then you accidentally stealth into the astral plane. Our rogue actually did it. She disappeared. The whole party forgot she existed. The player rolled up a new character. Then we had a quest centering around figuring out why we had all this evidence of someone existing that we couldn't remember and ultimately saving the rogue from an eternity of drifting in the ether.

[@Dile0303]

I am now convinced that the astral plane = the blind eternities Planeswalkers Planeshift into the astral plane and, from there, they travel to a plane they know using the color pools, with a chance of going to a random place in the multiverse

[@tarrasquescroll9385]

Mtg astral dreadnought card. Planeswalker hate?

[@Kydrou]

Actually, the Blind Eternities would be the space between the world spheres.

[@Dile0303]

@@Kydrou I did made a comment with this idea in the video "why do gods fear space", but in retrospect, the astral plane seems way closer to how planeswlking would work

[@laszlokaszas1003]

@@Dile0303 The blind ethernities is like a mix between the astral plane, the space between the cristal spheres and a little bit of the far realms IMHO.

[@benikujaku4567]

Definitely. Both multiverses are certainly inspired by each other

[@TaylorHam]

I love the living sea! It sounds like it would be one of the most ethereally beautiful places in the multiverse. Im picturing an underwater resort near the boundary of the water that sees the shifting lights of astral sea through the rippling water of the living sea. It sounds so peaceful

[@mountainmade3694]

the pitiless is literally just the d&d version of the SCP Foundation. lol

[@recursiveslacker7730]

Does the black moon howl?

[@kylesavage4525]

I am so hyped for this next one and i am so happy that u decided to make multiple videos on the astral plane.

[@NoNo-lt9bi]

Hi man your videos keep me sane during these times so keep up the amazing work for me if you will, but if you need a break thats fine too, dont overrxhaust yourself

[@Kojak7752]

Some of these ideas are gonna show up in my streamed homebrew campaign, Lost in the Astral Plane! Next episode is July 3rd, at 10 AM EST!

[@Throom]

And now according to Critical Role lore, you can also find in the astral plane the dead city of flesh, Cognoza

[@astra1627]

You mean a rotting dead city of the flesh cognouza. Hope they also incorporate the astral sea into the exandria unlimited campaign

[@sirgideonofnir6840]

That cliff hanger got me intrigued bro

[@jamesrosengrant8675]

I love that this episode ends with a major cliffhanger then the next thing uploaded is levistus of the nine hells. I loved the levistus video because I had a levistus bloodline tiefling Sorcerer, but I really wanna know more about dead gods

[@jacksonquinn8744]

I would like to know where you got with this character you created...it sounds badass 😎

[@jamesrosengrant8675]

@@jacksonquinn8744 the character had a crazy family tree. So levistus used an avatar to impregnate a woman at the same time an ancient red dragon, a villian from another campaign this one shared the world with, had impregnated one of his concubines. The resulting cambion and halfdragon would meet and together have 4 kids. The first wouldn't gain any of the fathers cambion traits, the second wouldn't gain any if the mothers dragon traits, the third was actually just a normal human getting both half human sides of his parents and the final would be my character. A levistus bloodline tiefling dragonic bloodline Sorcerer. He would learn his birth was planned out by levistus as an attempt to create someone powerful enough to free him from his icy prison. Unfortunately the campaign he was a part of ended before it could finish, so poor Esperion had to have his story wrapped up in a sequel campaign to the other campaign set in this world 500 years later. But I am DM for this campaign so I made one of his decendents a recurring villian in my world

[@dr.butterscotch1163]

You are a godsend for exciting, interesting, and absolutely amazing lore and mechanics for DND. Been playing 20 years and with your videos I've now been able to help my players understand beings and places better. Thank you so much MrRhexx. Keep up the amazing work.

[@zenvariety9383]

Interesting. Is it possible for a mortal to assume the identity of a dead deity? That would be cool to see how that would turn out.

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

I think they call it Manteling, sort of like stepping into the title of the god

[@mikehorne4053]

@@jedediahcoulbourne1791 Mantleing is an Elder Scrolls thing AFAIK, usually when a god dies, either another, such as a demigod, will rise to take over the aspects of the other god (like a leader god of the forests taking over when a greater deity of nature dies) or if another god killed them they'll have first pick on what they take and what may be passed to be distributed among lesser deities. But, there is always a path to Godhood, trick is in finding it, and doing it a way that hasn't been done before, as most gods are going to try and stop you from pulling it off. They don't exactly like competition.

[@edogohan]

Look only to midnight/mystra

[@nightfall89z62]

Well, it depends on how the deity perished. If it was because another deity killed them, then a mortal stepping into that deity's identity would likely turn out poorly as said mortal would immediately gain a deific enemy. Its also possible that a mortal taking the identity of a deity would drive the mortal insane. On the contrary, if a dead deity's consciousness, willingly chooses a mortal to bear its form it turns out well, i.e. the mystra situation mentioned above. Or it turns out well for the deity, said mortal eventually has their consciousness subsumed by the deity and ceases to exist i.e the deities bane or myrkul. So a mortal taking the identity of a deity, turns out very different for different mortals and situations. Essentially, if you find a deity's corpse and commune with its consciousness it is very possible to become that deity, it is equally possible to become insane or be utterly destroyed, depending on the disposition of the deity in question.

[@zenvariety9383]

@@nightfall89z62 Intriguing. Couldn't it also lead to the mortal adopting a blend of their original personality with that of the deity? Yet the personality change could be seen as the mortal going insane as they start claiming to have reincarnated.

[@Baxterbrookies]

One of my favorite! On point art, music and narration.

[@andrewtyrell4795]

This series on the Astral Plane is an absolute godsend for the 5e Spelljammer setting. No more phlogiston but now we have all of this wonderful insanity! Although I do wish more of this was in the books I paid for. 😒 Thank you so much for these videos!

[@YeaItsMeMatt89]

The twin dwarves are awesome!!! Fingers crossed for some dwarf videos!!!

[@korfaxrorin1536]

Dead gods are the most interesting part of Astral plane for high lvl adventure. Can't wait for the next video!

[@denimator05]

This might just be my favorite channel on KZbin. Can't wait for part 3!

[@benikujaku4567]

The Bonecloud being undead that just can't move in the Astral Plane is as terrifying as it is hilarious. And it is very hilarious

[@Auriorium]

Is there an inventory of what The Pitiless holds? Asking for a friend.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Anything you need. The sourcebook never said.

[@mountainmade3694]

look up the SCP Foundation.

[@matarmeyer1302]

I would ryle it in my workd as what ever you want is there but buying enything is with a 30% fee on everything

[@1Kapuchu100]

It's the kind of place you should deposit the Hand and Eye of Vecna.

[@Taygon45]

Craven Edge has to be somewhere in there.

[@JCResDoc94]

*these videos are so gr8 for meditative practice. the distraction like a dancing flame, the soft music in the background.* one can listen to them over and over again for an hr each morning to assist in practice. - JC

[@phillip7731]

BROOOO 3 videos in a week. Find the cleric that cast bless on me, I need more of that!

[@vaughnlewis3443]

Another Great video another request for dwarves and magic runes videos. I can’t wait to see what comes next with the dead gods and there “ Guardian” keep up the good work.

[@JTAKIZZA]

You absolute tease showing Anubis at the end then ending the video. Loved the video thanks for the content.

[@teddyscheepers3560]

Loving all the detail on the astral plane. Thanks so much for making these videos

[@animainega8511]

Nice to see you sponcering Dungeons of Drakkenheim. I have been following Dungeon Dudes for such a long time

[@saqvobase4301]

The art at 16:34 is amazing, the idea of a floating city tangled in wire is so cool

[@razzelmire2008]

Do not let this distract you from the fact that he forgot to cover the Paraelemental and Quasielemental Planes as well as the Positive and Negative Energy Planes

[@recursiveslacker7730]

The quasielemental planes and positive/negative energy planes, at least as of 5e, kinda got busted up and blended into the elemental chaos, which has only just recently started to reform into the separate elemental planes. The positive and negative planes reformed, but in a pretty weird place that isn’t really talked about at all.

[@razzelmire2008]

@@recursiveslacker7730 yeah but he stated he’s looking at older edition stuff anyway, you can’t have lore on the Planes throughout the game by omitting planes from the earlier editions.

[@kinagrill]

@@recursiveslacker7730 The plane of 'exploding from too many temp hitpoints'.

[@redfogwhitefrost2583]

I'm playing catch up right now. Rhexx has been on a roll with these Astral plane videos and im here for it.

[@Thetruepianoman]

Love all the worldbuilding videos! Just personally, I'd love it if every now and then you throw in a creature vid like the snail one

[@PrivateerXTR]

You are knocking it out of the park! Keep it up!

[@jayjonesrgaming]

I love how the astral plane just defaults as the garbage can for all the "we don't want that shit here" phenomena... powerful necromancer turns whole planet into undead minions? Send it to the astral! Death knight scourging your world? Strand em in the astral! Tired of that kraken messing up your trade route? Banish it, and a small portion of the ocean, to the astral! 😂😂

[@kinagrill]

It's like the warp without the insanity.

[@riccardoconti6682]

You're amazing! Every video, a waterfall of inspiration!

[@emargold]

thank you for taking the time to make these videos so elaborate and comprehensive

[@schylerfontenot7358]

Wow this showed me just how cool the Astral is. Was actually unsure and always thought it was a bit lackluster but now I want to run an adventure there

[@derikfrancis771]

Man, your videos are the best! I have a ton of inspiration everytime I watch just one of them. Thank you.

[@declanandrewbell]

can't believe you don't have a video on the mighty Roc yet. I searched and thought for sure there'd be "what they don't tell you" on it by now!

[@daniell1483]

The more I learn about the Astral Sea, the more intrigued I become. The server on which the D&D Matrix runs, an infinite trash-heap, the spine connecting the Outer Planes to the Prime Material, and probably much more besides. The Astral Sea is the workhorse that enables D&D!

[@LDSG_A_Team]

Hot take: the Astral plane is just the real world.

[@HiopX]

Rhexx talking about Drakkenheim me: a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@screamingiraffe]

yay another MrRhexx video, I actually get somewhat excited for these.. don't ask why

[@painappledad1352]

Thank for your hard work mate 🙇🏻‍♂️💛 Send ye good vibes from South America

[@BlackrpgNerd]

I love this! It’s really gunna help when I run a githyanki invasion campaign

[@quillcannon]

Very well put together! Your work is always impressive. One point of contention I have, if you'll permit me, is 0:28 "this is the function of the astral plane." I don't agree that being a transitory part of dimensional travel is its function. It's not the ocean's function to transport ships, nor is it a tree's function to become a table. The astral sea just so happens to be the ocean on our way to new places, as it were. Once again, great work. Keep it up.

[@quillcannon]

Also, if one of your players ever decides that their warlock patron is the Globglogabgalab, the Yeast of Thoughts and Mind, then the Astral Sea is where that beautiful demigod would reside.

[@xaviersanson6604]

As always, very informative. Thanks.

[@tenshiumi9299]

The video about the far realm it's getting closer, I can feel it

[@colbygarcia8766]

Youve done it again, Rhexx! Great vid

[@fal_pal_]

Can’t get enough of this astral stuff!

[@Shazam3k]

Astral investigator sounds like an awesome character story.

[@fracturedraptor7846]

Here's to hoping future D&D video games explore all of the this, the things you cover. Imagine how massive the game would be, not to mention popular, if it was BG3 level of care and content but expanding across all of the known places and planes in the universe. It would be the most popular game ever with insane levels of play time, a virtual never ending pool of new content to explore and discover. Of course the undertaking would be quite massive. Not just from the programming stand point or how much space the game requires to install but the dialogue alone would be mind boggling. There's a shit ton of things to try and account for. Honestly I don't think it's possible to create such a game, at least not in a time frame that won't drop it when we're all long gone and dead.

[@treeross]

I have a deity in my 3.5 setting who took over the plane of shadow and enhanced it to a fully parallel plane and this was very valueable information.

[@nw9353]

Thank you for tour. Can't wait to see the brochure.

[@icesamurai8]

I have to we listen to your videos everytime because you give us so much information. Thank you

[@carlosguardia2852]

oh boy...this is helping prepare my next quest a lot!! thanks

[@Nauriek]

I do actually have a few questions i've been wondering about: Let's set the scene: my D&D character dies. What now? Normally, this means they're out of comission until someone revives them. But what if we, instead of a "fade to black", continue on? From what i know, my soul will enter the astral plane, and drift towards the color pool that corresponds to the outer plane that suits them the most, where they are reincarnated into an appropriate form: a petitioner, lemure, dretch ect... But... if my soul is in the astral, and creatures who plane shift into there are also pretty much just souls, and the astral is a place where you can move with only your mind, what's stopping me from acting? What if i just, as a soul, intentionally move towards a silver color pool, returning myself to the material plane? Is there anything stopping me from doing so? Is my soul unconscious during the transit? Will it wake up after 1d4 hours and gain the ability to act again? Do i, as a soul, keep my game statistics plus some extra benefits such as immortality and no need for food and water, like an Astral Projectin without the silver cord? Will i become a ghost when i go through a color pool to the material plane? Or will i become some kind of outsider creature with identical statistics to my former self, plus a few bonuses such as immortality ect... ? Will i transform into a Lemure if i were to enter the Nine Hells? What's stopping me from just cheating death? Furthermore, imagine this: A Lawful Good Paladin died, and his soul is on the astral, drifting towards the nearest color pool to Mt. Celestia. But a psychic wind sweeps his soul away before it could arrive there, sending it straight into the lower planes. Will he reincarnate as a lemure/dretch? Psychic Winds should by all means be able to affect drifting souls, and since they can throw unlucky travellers into color pools, there should, by all means, be situations where the souls of evil creatures arrive in the upper planes and vice versa. What happens in these situations? Will the good ones suffer the fate of heinous evildoers, while the evil ones get obliterated from existence? I'd really like to hear your and the comment sections thoughts on that matter. Was this topic ever considered in D&D lore? Are we threading on uncharted territory here?

[@bobjohnson7963]

12:21-15:57 the dnd scp foundation

[@edwarddavis7858]

What you see: Pitiless What I see: Fantasy SCP

[@juanpablopaolillo2049]

Awesome video!!! Can't wait to watch part 3.

[@qazixgames7920]

Running a campaign right now where a god seeking vengeance on an ancient populous was banished to the the astral plane, the banishment ritual left a scar on the world leaving a vast desert. the campaign takes place a 1000 years later and the party is just now learning about what truly happened all that time ago. Loving all the deep lore to spice up the early encounters for the party as they stumble into rifts between the material and astral plane

[@acehendrix3791]

@MrRhexx What's up Rhexx!! Its been a long time and you've come a long way! We used to play Minecraft way back on Xbox360.

[@Ashtonlee1]

You would be THE #1 consultant on set if they ever make a d&d shared universe (like MCU).

[@FeralVentas]

Looking forward to the next one; heard of the deific corpses in the Astral Plane, but the Guardian is a new one to me aside from maybe a particular spider that, I think, was mentioned in the old Tome of Magic.

[@giffgiffvangiff]

Really like all your videos. The Dragon series was one of my favorites. Love to see some vids on the arch devils of baator in the 9 hells. More deep dives on each realm Mammon or Dispater.

[@ivellos]

If you are going to do a video about dead gods in the astral plane, I hope to see some mentions or screenshots of Myrkul in Neverwinter Nights 2, Mask of the Betrayer. Best example ever and a really great dialogue

[@captainthorrek262]

Nice plug for Drakkenheim!

[@BoogalooBear810]

Love the videos Definitely help with my campaign building

[@ole-anderassagmo9532]

Hello, have you done a video on Bahamut? I love your content, it helps a lot for my own worldbuilding as a DM and I was wondering if you have a video on Bahamut as I would love to learn more about the diety (still reading up on it from dnd sorce books). Keep up the great content :D

[@crimsonphait]

This is great content, you really up my game world.

[@knvo]

I love it, now i want to play a character from the Astral.

[@Kojimon]

Great work, MrRhexx.

[@levishackelton4437]

I really enjoy the stuff you put out.

[@nijimbagao7090]

I find this one particulary educational... wish I could knew all this for the session in the astral plan as a DM

[@snausagemakereatimup1360]

Keep up the good work man, love the videos

[@shellknight1323]

Imagine a place where your Nasty Noxious Horrid Egg Fart lives FOREVER

[@bigles025]

First of all, Great video today....Depends on your schedule, I wanted to suggest a video about Sigil, Im really interrested to learn more about the place

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Agreed. I expect he'll cover it and the Outlands before getting into the Outer Planes.

[@warhorseman8680]

Now that I rewatched this video, is there any official Astral Plane Adventure?

[@Gildorify]

Thank you for the D&D content.

[@MurasakiOkami]

Thanks for the video, this is going to be intresting, i'm defenetly sending my players over there.

[@Cruuvo]

Super good video as usual, I love your content man!

[@devincheeseman3867]

love all your vids, definitely gonna use some of this info in my current campaign.

[@TheRealChemlock]

what are some sources that feature Planar Detectives? that bit got my mind racing! excellent lore dive as always.

[@ericstambaugh7012]

I love your videos. They are so well put together and informative!

[@ghostfaceknuts]

Really enjoy your lore videos

[@bigharrymonster1]

Awesome lore thanks for help us improv our knowledge.

[@archam777]

Pike off berk!!! Quit rattlin yur bone box! I thought the dusties had you for a deader?!?!? I love that you use planer speech, also........ The "wizard" at 9:10......lol, is that Orco from He-man?? Videos are great >.

[@billberndtson]

Great video, Rhrexx

[@Ergand]

Now I don't play dnd, but it sounds like using magic to somehow give all Undead an intelligence of at least 1 would have some interesting, chaotic results.

[@MatthewSmith-pv6gd]

My problem now is all the places and things I want to build campaigns around, because of your videos. There is no way I will even get to a fraction of them.

[@Nauriek]

9:22 You're telling me that there's a HUGE cloud of immobilized undead creatures just floating there in the Astral, ripe for my Paladin or Cleric to SMITE (okay, the Dawn spell would be much faster and safer) them all for ginormous amounts of EXP?! Now i really want to write that story about a DM getting Isekai'd into D&D and abusing his game knowledge to become ludicrously overpowered.

[@icydeath0000]

I will comment on being subscribed, love the vids/lore and your presentation. Keep up the great work MrRhexx!

[@gergosoos4652]

The undead cloud at 9:56. Human being is like 40x30x200. For 2 cubic meter: 6 dodies. A cube of 10m: 3000 bodies. A cube of 100m: 3M bodies. A 1km of undead: 3 billion bodies. A cube of 10km: 3 trillion bodies (if it is tightly fit). Summary: You can pile up all bodies of a medieval planet and still won't get a mountain (less than 1km in height). If that cloud is of that size, it might be from multiple planets or a hundred.