[RPG] Are the positive and negative planes inner or outer planes in the Great Wheel cosmology model

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Are the positive and negative planes inner or outer planes in the Great Wheel cosmology model?

I'm unsure of which they are in the 5th edition Great Wheel cosmology model. I know they are inner planes in other models.

Best Answer

They are neither.

As specified in the DMG on 43, 5e has several "categories" of planes:

  • The Material Plane and Its Echoes. The Feywild and the Shadowfell are reflections of the Material Plane.
  • The Transitive Planes. The Ethereal Plane and the Astral Plane are mostly featureless planes that serve primarily as pathways to travel from one plane to another.
  • The Inner Planes. The four Elemental Planes (Air, Earth, Fire, and Water), plus the Elemental Chaos that surrounds them, are the Inner Planes.
  • The Outer Planes. Sixteen Outer Planes correspond to the eight non-neutral alignments and shades of philosophical difference between them.
  • The Positive and Negative Planes. These two planes enfold the rest of the cosmology, providing the raw forces of life and death that underlie the rest of existence in the multiverse.
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