A plane of existence is a place within the multiverse that exists as its own pocket of reality. These planes are real locations, but they also embody spiritual and elemental concepts.
Thinking of planes as their own distinct pockets of reality can be confusing, especially when we know that you can travel from one to another.
To be more precise, you can’t typically walk from one to another or even travel by any means short of magic, although there are a litany of exceptions to this.
We cover the Planes of Existence in full of course but sometimes a simple list is easier to sift through:
The Planes of Existence in D&D: List
Abyss
Acheron
Arborea
Arcadia
Arvandor
Astral Plane
Banehold
Barrens of Doom and Despair
Beastlands (plane)
Brightwater
Bytopia
Carceri
Mount Celestia
Celestial Nadir
Clangor
Court of Stars
Category:Creatures by plane
Cresting Spires
Cynosure (plane)
Deep Caverns
Deep Wilds
Demiplane
Demiplane of Imprisonment
Demiplane of Nightmares
Category:Demiplanes
Demonweb Pits
Dismal Caverns
Domains of Delight
Domains of Dread
Dragon Eyrie
Dwarfhome
Elemental Plane of Air
Elemental Plane of Earth
Elemental Plane of Fire
Elemental Plane of Water
Elysium
Eternal Sun
Ethereal plane
Far Realm
Fated Depths
Feywild
Fountains of Creation
Fugue Plane
Fundamental plane
Fury’s Heart
Gates of the Moon
Gehenna
Golden Hills
Great Conflagration
Great Wheel cosmology
Category:Great Wheel planes
Green Fields
Hades
Hammergrim
Heliopolis
Hoard (demiplane)
House of Knowledge (plane)
House of Nature
House of the Triad
Limbo
Mechanus
Mindscape
Negative Energy plane
Nine Hells
Nishrek
Outer Planes
Outlands
Pandemonium
Parallel plane
Plane of Mirrors
Positive Energy plane
Prime Material plane
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Ash
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Dust
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Minerals
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Radiance
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Salt
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Steam
Quasi-Elemental Plane of Vacuum
Root Hold
Shadowfell
Sildëyuir
Sky Home
Spirit World
Stardeep
Supreme Throne
Swamp of Oblivion
Theros
Undying Pyre
Warrior’s Rest
Ysgard
Zigguraxus
Rich is an avid D&D player and DM. He has been playing since the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st and 2nd editions. He has run campaigns of various editions with family and friends for over 20 years. Playing DnD 5th Edition in person at local game stores and online with VTT’s over the past 10 years has provided a consistent connection to how the game has grown. He strongly believes in understanding the source material, but catering the games to your individual players. Feel free to ask anything in the comments or drop him an email: [email protected].
