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Originally posted by sorbius:
because I love fueling fires.....
D&D does in fact have planes of Law and Chaos. They have a whole bunch, in fact each alignment combination in D&D has it's own plane. There is also a lesser plane of water which is the, wait for it, ice plane.... pretty much if it involves planes and elements, D&D has done it. not to say the original idea behind this post was ripping off D&D, but the person who said D&D does not have the these planes is dead wrong.
There is no Plane of Law or Plane of Chaos. There are planes that are aligned with law or chaos, but there is no plane that is pure chaos or pure law. Even in Limbo (the most strongly chaos-aligned plane), there exist bastions of order. Likewise there are chaotic elements in Mechanus (the most strongly law-aligned plane). Again, the original proposal were for planes like the D&D elemental plane of Fire, where it's all fire all the time. Mechanus isn't all Law all the time, and Limbo isn't all Chaos all the time (that'd be too orderly!). As a specific example, there's an entire adventure made to figure out why the Modrons (polygonal inhabitants of Mechanus, utterly Lawful in nature) have suddenly and inexplicably started to do chaotic things.
The Paraelemental Plane of Ice isn't part of the generally accepted D&D cosmology. It's a mixture of the plane of water and the plane of air, but it wasn't carried forward into 3rd edition. At best, the paraelemental planes (magma, ooze, ice, and, umm, lightning I think?) are demiplanes/minor planes. You won't find them in any official discussion of the D&D cosmology.
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EDIT: forgot to mention there are also the positive and negative material planes, which are basically the planes of life and death/creation and destruction.
No. The positive energy plane and negative energy plane are both lethal and destructive to unprepared entities. If you enter the positive energy plane at full health unprotected, you'll explode into your composite atoms within 30 seconds (5 rounds). You might actually last longer in the negative energy plane, depending on how much health you had. Things can be created out of negative energy in D&D just as easily as positive energy, and there are life forms that are composed entirely or primarily of both. Negative energy isn't pure destructive energy because it has no effect on unliving objects/creatures, and positive energy isn't pure creation energy because it can very easily destroy something.
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