D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

[Henadic Theologian]

Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

 

[aco175]

Great Wheel

World Tree

World Axis

5e Great Wheel
This may be wrong. I was finding it hard to compare the original wheel to the new wheel and it was saying that they added the new planes from Planescape at some point. I thought I would find a better picture.

I do like this one of the inner planes though.

 

[overgeeked]

World Axis. By far.

 

[Scribe]

The Wheel. Without a doubt.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I use the Great Wheel in combination with the World Tree. Two different ways of seeing the same thing - the World Tree being the Faerun-centric viewpoint of the Great Wheel, where interplanar connections between godly realms muddled things up for those on the ground on Toril.

 

[Charlaquin]

Definitely world axis

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Great Wheel

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World Tree

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World Axis

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5e Great Wheel
This may be wrong. I was finding it hard to compare the original wheel to the new wheel and it was saying that they added the new planes from Planescape at some point. I thought I would find a better picture.

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I do like this one of the inner planes though.

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The thing with the 5e Great Wheel is that is absord the world Axis (and the Great Orrey of Eberron contained in its Crystal Sphere), then added new elements.

You can kind even divided its evolution in two, early 5e and late 5e. Early 5e is just the Great Wheel + the Feywild, Shadowfell (with Demiplanes of Dread added), Far Realms, and Elemental Chaos and Elemental Border Region added and the energy planes moved. Then Witchlight and Spelljammer added things, but did **** all to properly explore them. Witchlight added a feywild equivlant of Ravenloft, the Domains of Delight. Spelljammer split the Astral Sea into Material Co-Minglious Wild Space and the Astral Sea and added Divine Dominions to the Astral Sea, without properly exploring the idea or thinking about their implications.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The Wheel. Without a doubt.

Which Great Wheel, OG or 5e modified?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Whichever one we encountered first. Might as well ask "what year did you start playing D&D?"

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I use the Great Wheel in combination with the World Tree. Two different ways of seeing the same thing - the World Tree being the Faerun-centric viewpoint of the Great Wheel, where interplanar connections between godly realms muddled things up for those on the ground on Toril.

Which great wheel, og or 5e modified ?