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FREE THE PLANE BELOW: SECRETS OF THE ELEMENTAL CHAOS PDF Wizards of the Coast RPG Team | 159 pages | 15 Dec 2009 | Wizards of the Coast | 9780786952496 | English | United States » The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos (D&D 4E) Review Available at Amazon. To be sure, this supplement is primarily intended for Dungeon Masters and is best suited for paragon and epic tier games. There is no doubt that the Elemental Chaos is aptly named, for although there are some relatively stable places to visit, much of the plane is filled with a roiling chaos of raw elements from which the rest of creation is derived. It is a hostile and alien place — just the sort of place to drop your players into unexpectedly to watch them squirm. The first section of the book, Chaos Incarnatetries to tackle the very difficult task of describing an ever changing and completely alien terrain. This approach of focusing on using these elements in building encounters works well in beginning to paint a mental picture of just how insane a place like the Elemental Chaos really is. By the time I read through the first couple dozen pages, I found myself scratching my head and wondering how I could possibly create a campaign that centered around the Elemental Chaos. The authors most have foreseen my apprehension, as they immediately continued on The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos provide a framework for building campaign arcs featuring organizations and adventures set in the Plane Below. Indeed, the Elemental Chaos is more than just a mix of a hostile environment and even more hostile inhabitants — although it is that in spades. The adventure hooks and potential adversaries given in this chapter are a good way to prime the storytelling pump as it were, although they came across a The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos stilted. Plowing on, the Races of Chaos chapter gives us an overview of some of the inhabitants of the Elemental Chaos, including detailed sections on the archons, djinns, efreets, genasi, giants, githzerai, and slaads. Many of these creatures have been presented in past editions, but here we find out more about their life and civilization in the Plane Below. The archons in particular are fairly new in concept in 4th editionso the section on their life and society was particularly enlightening. The real gold to be mined from this supplement is in the Elemental Locales and Into the Abyss chapters. Both of these are a treasure trove of fascinating locations for your players to explore. Some of these places are more unique features of the Plane Below and others are permanent locations — pockets of stability in an otherwise completely chaotic plane. Places like Gloamnulla genasi city with a dark secret, and the Mountain Builders Barrow The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos come alive and could themselves be the focal point of an entire campaign. Other locations such as The Brazen Bazaar, a travelling marketplace originating from the City of Brass, could be exciting diversions to spice up your campaign. Here you will also find a number of ready-to-go encounters that you can plop directly into your game or quickly tweak them to suit your needs. Closing this book out is the Creatures of Chaos chapter, which stats out nearly fifty new creatures to challenge your planes-hopping adventurers. There are a fair number of interesting solos and elites to pick from, and plenty of others spread out between 8th and 34th level. My only real complaint for this chapter is that not all of the creatures are illustrated. The most conspicuously missing art was for creatures that were particularly difficult to conceptualize based solely on the descriptions. My Thoughts Rather than igniting a fire within me that would rival that of even the most severe CinderstormThe Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos left me lukewarm. There is no doubt that this book is a valuable resource for anyone who is running a campaign set in the planes. The The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos chapter offers an impressive list of fantastic terrain and obstacles for setting up memorable encounters, and the Elemental Locales and Into the Abyss sections gave me some great ideas for locations that my players could visit or even originate from. Does it succeed in making the Elemental Chaos a must-visit destination in any planar campaign? Probably not. Then again, it is a far more intriguing place to visit than the fundamental planes The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos, earth, air, water of previous editions. Review by Robert A. Print This Post. Click here to cancel reply. Name required. Mail will not be published required. The new Review Guidelines have been posted on the Flames Rising website. We are currently seeking a few good reviewers to help us expand our collection of horror and dark fantasy reviews. RPGs, fiction, movies, video games and more are all welcome on the site What do you get out of it? Beyond helping out fellow Flames Rising readers by letting them know what you think of these products, we're giving away some pretty cool stuff. Regular Reviewers can earn free products to review, which is their to keep after the review is submitted to the site. We have lots of great titles in digital format and even get advance copies sometimes. Use the Contact Page to submit reviews or let us know if you have any questions. Flames Rising. Howard Available at Amazon. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. You will receive horror and dark fantasy updates, news, and more once a week! Reviews Wanted! The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemtnal Chaos | Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG News Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Bruce R. Cordell Goodreads Author. Luke Johnson. Fiendish dungeons and The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos battlefields await A hotbed of adventure opportunities await you in the roiling maelstrom of the Elemental Chaos—a plane of titans, elementals, genies, slaads, and demons. From the City of Brass to the githzerai monastery of Zerthadlun to the spiraling depths of the Abyss, adventure lurks behind every lava waterfall, across every icy battlefield, and beyond every raging lightning storm. This game supplement describes the Elemental Chaos in detail, featuring key locations throughout the plane. It also presents a multitude of new monsters, mighty primordials, and powerful demons, as The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos as adventure hooks, encounters, hazards, and everything Dungeon Masters need to make the Elemental Chaos a featured setting in their campaigns. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Plane Belowplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 25, Michael Burnam-Fink rated it liked it Shelves:fantasyrpg. Welcome to the Elemental Plane of Fire The Plane Below improves the cosmology through mixing all the elements in one sprawling Elemental Chaos, but lacks the focused ideas of The Plane Above. First off, the Elemental Chaos is a profoundly bad place to travel, with lakes of The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos, rivers of lightning, tornadoes of stone, and vast bubbles of air and water. Assuming that a party has enough enchantments not to die, they can visit locations like the City of Brass, possibly the greatest city in the universe, and ruled by Efreet Slavers, and the Abyss, home to horrible demons. There are a few more neutralist groups to meet and quest for. Githzerai live in monasteries practicing esoteric martial arts and using meditation to literally hold together fragile life-supporting domains. Djinn fought against the gods, and for their sins were scattered to the winds and entrapped in fine objects. A few free Djinn hire adventurers to help restore their lost empire. Slaads are dada-esque forces of pure chaos, and cultists of the defeated Primordials conduct dark rites. Overall, while there are some cool vistas and ideas, this book never real came together as a good thematic guide to adventures, or an explanation of the 4e cosmology. Nov 19, Jean- francois rated it really liked it Shelves: rpg. The Plane Below explores the Elemental Chaos and the Abyss with the creatures that populate these realms. Pretty interesting book for those with an interest in the cosmology of the 4th edition. I enjoyed ready this book because it completed what i had read in some of the other books. It gave me plenty of ideas for my campaign and its going to be a great The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos to my game. 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