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.

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

Unprepared explorers when they arrive at the plane of dust: “I don’t feel so good” (Breaks apart)

You feel a wave of depression sweep over you, and you turn to see that Marvin the robot has stalked miserably into the plane.

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

Plans of salt: 10 out of 10 Topaz dragons recommend it!

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...

"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

Negative Material Planes. Been there, done that... Hello darkness, my old friend...

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.

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

I'm impressed that you read NASAs report on what happens to humans in a void. 5/5

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.

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.

The plane of PURE ITCHYNESS.

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!

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.

When I first heard of the Negative Energy Plane I imagined a world that looked like a planet sized sphere of annihilation in looks.

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.

With my abilities to bottle up my emotions and be consistently filled negativity, I could rulenthis plain

So it's like space's evil twin, basically.

If I were a powerful wizard, my salt shaker would bring salt from that quasi-elemental plane.

From the US thank you for starting Memorial Day weekend off the right way with this excellent video

"And Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes tells you why." *BECAUSE YOU DIE.* (Is this the Negative ENERGY or MATERIAL planes?)

Plane of Elemental Salt is ruled over by a being known as Lotswife :)

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

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

Those nightwalkers probably just want a hug. It gets awful cold and lonely out there in the void, you know.

If nightwalkers are undead, imagine how terrifying whatever died to make them must have been...

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.)

the negative material plane is like a black hole... but its magic and infinitely large

awesome video A.J . if i ever need to get rid of a aboleth i now know to send it to its salty doom .

You know it's good when you first start with a Jeff Easley illustration.

Thanks for the video, AJ!

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

Thank you for this one! I love most everything uploaded but this old gem stands out from a crowd of fine content

Hell: we`re not thaaaaat bad.

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.

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.

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.

The Nightwalker destroy magic item reminds me of what Hela does to Thor's hammer.

Don't forget the ever popular demi-plane of Dread!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love the new plane videos :)

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.

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼

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

5:30 when the beat drops

Thanks for the vid sir.

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.

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".

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

I love the artwork from that mtg card Damnation.

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??

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.

Is “negative energy plane” and “negative material plane” interchangeable or is there a difference?

Maybe not the best thing to watch right before bed. Well done...creepy...but well done.

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.

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 ?

Good video

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. 😆

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.

Gosh, i must finally get to look intoo mtof

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

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?

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.

20:53 how lofty dreams turn to Nothic 😀

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

Can we get a Video on the Doomguard? They sound quite interesting!

love the "fizzics"

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.

Ya know, I work with beings and energies form here so often I should know what I'm working with.

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...

So the different planes= string theory?

Elemental Salt, as a chemist I'm ROTFLMAO.

How hard is it to travel to negative plane ? and ... would teleporting cows into negative plane summon Nightwalkers ?

Is the shadowfell between the prime and negitve meterial planes?

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?

Hay AJ what do you think about a all out evil red dragonborn

Is the ShadowFell directly connected to the negitive QuaziElimental planes?

Wow AJ these last couple of videos have been positively negative 😜

If you kill a night walker fast enough does the person trapped get to come back?

Is it good to use

I didn't catch it but is the natural energy affiliation with the Negative Energy Plane, Necrotic?

Beacons of EVIL attract undead. Beacons of life and GOOOODNESS attract undead. What is not attracting undead then?

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

sounds like the soul cairn from skyrim

plane of ash... is that the world dark souls is set in?

Nightwalker doesnt have to walk... Alone!

I must listen to the Fortress of Regrets theme from the Planescape Torement game before listening to this ;]

Could a time dragon escape the negative material plane?

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?

also, how the frick does the guy at 24:04 turn his head?

any plans on covering the half undead at any point?