Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Arcadia 

Feeling an affinity for Arcadia. Unfortunate how Mechanus is ruining it. If traveling on foot, would adventurers need to go through another upper plane, as an in-between, on their way to the Feywild?

Personally, I think I'd find Arcadia a bit eerie. Between the angular rivers, perfectly evenly spaced plants, and lack of dusk/dawn it's like the whole plane has this uncanny valley sort of effect.

Some things I noted while running a session in Arcadia: 1. The Einheriar often use their alignment detection in their policing. I accidentally rolled a Ring of Mind Shielding for sale in one of the law-abiding markets (which is all of them), then had to take it back because it wouldn't make sense for such an item to be sold there since it would foil the local police (who are respected). 2. It's likely the cities and markets would charge nominal fees for entry, license to sell, license to buy, possibly everything, and everyone willingly pays these and won't deal with those who don't have these licenses, but unlike Mechanus the fees would probably be very small and the processing time quick, so it's barely an inconvenience. 3. I can't remember where I read this, but some of the magical trees could produce fruit that permanently boost stats, and these tend to be heavily protected (and everyone who owns them likely has 20+ in all stats), but also could attract nefarious visitors whom the owners might need help dealing with. 4. The squads or platoons of Einheriar would probably work together very well. Since petitioners only have 2 hit dice usually, they aren't much of a threat to a high-level planar-traveling party, but in large groups that use tactics like shoving, grappling and the Help action they can still be annoying, and obviously when 20-50 armored soldiers marching in formation address the party they're going to be intimidated either way. The Einheriar have to be good at their jobs because unlike Mechanus, Bytopia or Elysium, the plane itself doesn't try to force anyone to change alignment, so it has to be patrolled and protected by the relatively normal inhabitants. 5. Poison and Disease don't exist here, and there's an infinite amount of space and resources, so things like the cost of food and water are either reduced or ignored completely (depending on the quality and if it had to be cooked/prepared), and most natives are willing to shelter visitors for cheap since they aren't afraid of having their limitless food stolen. It's a good plane for ignoring the upkeep costs of adventuring (if you feel you need justification to do so).

Every time someone mentions Arcadia I think of King Leonidas saying "ARCADIAN! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION!"

One should not forget that Harmonium enlists not only humans and dwarves from their world, but also races and creatures commonly regarded as evil, for example, hobgoblins, and even some beholders. So, while not welcome, evil on Arcadia may be way more common than one would think.

D&D, where even the Upper Planes are horrifying!

Arcadia: Paradise for people with OCD everywhere.

I always enjoy hearing about the good aligned planes. It’s calming and inspiring in an odd way.

Can u please do all the planes?!

Just once, I would like AJ to open with "What's up guys, it's ya boy AJ coming at ya again with a DnD commentary."

Sounds like a perfect place for an aspiring god to just go and snatch the missing layer of arcadia. Clearly, NG just isn't willing to save its territory and LN is just too uninspired to see the perfect opportunity it presents for a theiving god. To steal a layer already stolen.

Qiest idea: abunch of celestrials and good alligned patitioners meet with the modrons in Sigil, to negotiate the rescue the stranded Chaotic creatues and Archadians from Mechinus. I immagine the modrons don't want them there any more than they want to be there.

Id love a campaign where you fight against the Harmonium, but at the end of the campaign, your efforts to destroy the Harmonium fully merge your plane with Mechanus.

Seems easy enough to retrieve that lost layer. It's jammed up in Absolute Law, and only a purely Good-motivated mission could ever retrieve it. So stop sending Lawful Good to do Chaotic Good's job, and make priority number one rescuing the trapped petitioners.

For some reason that ending section reminds me of the Clockwork Virus SCP horror story. Absolute law isn’t as good as one may first think it would be.

Oh my! This is actually super interesting.

ARCADIA STANDS!!!

Ok, hear me out: Evil campaign where you're contracted by Devils to push Arcadia into the lawful evil alignment. You're players could even be good or neutral characters with devilish debts to repay

What brought me here was a lvl 20 campaign where two lichs were plane shifted into a random plane. They landed in Arcadia and I wondered how long they would survive or thrive. Executed immediately, good to know. Also, absolutely love the videos you make, I have been binge watching all your plane and dragons videos and just adore them.

Only 21k views . . . 95% DMs I really appreciate this channel

Actually, the mountain of Orb of Day and Night and Mount Clanggedin are separate landmarks on Abellio. But, if someone has created the Orb, it may as well be dwarves.

Dworfiest of dworfs - I clicked like

Cool. Im making a dungeon, with one floor being a book, carved on walls, with rooms presenting different planes, its great to have Your vids

Am I the only one seeing our avatars just laying down in the open fields of Arcadia just chilling with gentle sunlight kissing their cheeks as the crisp winds flow through their hair with the grass gently caressing their bodies? Sure adventuring is fun and hilarious at times, but sometimes... relaxation is always welcome even if it's temporary. Perhaps a well earned nap after a long haul in the darkest of dungeons. Fresh scents of the produce being carried through the wind as we just take in the beauty. Sure the adventure awaits us, but for now let's just enjoy the moment. Enjoy the moment of rest before we gather our gear and march on to our destinations. The purest essence of the journey contains not only hardships, but also kinships among adventurers. Sorry for getting lost in the moment. Who's ready to go down a layer closer to potential danger?!

Wait, only a Dollar a month i get your scripts? Fuck yeah I might do that in the future.

Man lawful plains are creepy

Winter turned into spring. Spring turned into summer. Summer turned back into winter. Then winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn

I had a lovecraftian horror flashback at 16:55 because I thought you said "tekeli-li"

Just throwing that out there - being the duplicitous though lawful fiends that rakshasas are, do you think that maybe, just maybe they are secretly running the Harmonium? Also, yes, this IS a tinfoil helmet :D

I have the EinHerJar spawn in a lot of the abilities for the Viking gods on my channel, I thought about using arcadia and now I know a lot more about the plane. Great Video AJ!!!!

0:50 jajaja that's how i picture your garden to be

I want to go to the Basilica of St Cuthbert.

Skip to around 7:30 for the murder hobo reference. Sounds like the next time the all rogue campaign upsets me they are going to get involved in a heist on Arcadia as punishment.

I love your vids on the multiverse! please do more!

An infinite flat plane with a rotating sphere of day and night? Are you sure this isn't flat earth theory?

LOOOVE that intro theme isnt as loud. GG AJ

See the whole thing I loved about that was that a shop keeper when trying to rip me off and even when I know that they're trying to rip me off in the lower planes if I call them out on it I still go to jail but here it seems like it just wouldn't happen

Thank you AJ

Great video. I liked your pacing when you showed us the setting and ongoing history of this decaying plane.

Thank you very much. This will help so much with fleshing out the parties adventures here.

good video AJ

Love your work! Keep it up

I'm Running the Great Modron March, and they are currently in Arcadia.. but like just found a portal to leave.... i wish you did this video a few weeks/months ago! Hurry up with the others now!! :P Keep up the good work!

Wow, I got a lot of good wallpapers for my phone from this... PS: LOVE the exploration videos, AJ!

You've lived a good life. Followed your god's teachings. Now you have passed away, and get to spend eternity working as a joyous slave to your god, toiling at the forge or tending the farms of the land.

Animals just giving up their life for you? That's crazy. I feel like this realm is so orderly its almost a bit unsettling, despite being a good realm

Awesome post! 👍 Do you think you'll ever cover Psionics?

Love your videos! Didn't you do a vid, or two, on the elemental planes? I can't seem to find them anywhere and they are very relevant to a campaign I'm currently planning....

How would a party's campaign starting in a bar in a town in the material plane ever wind up fighting one of these

.... This is like if The Stepford Wives were applied to a plane of existence O_O

You should do a video on the avariel!

Jamming to this into

hey there my dude. I have a question. how do the core races reproduce? ( gnomes, halfings, dwarves) ive been looking and cant find it anywhere. looking for similar info to that given in mordenkainens tomb of foes of that of the elves which explains why there aren't as many elves as humans. mostly interested in the halfings and gnomes

So this is where the cows at Milliways comes from?

Great

so many campaign ideas...

I DONT LIKE THIS PLAN, I T FEELS SO OPEN AND TOO PERFECT, but i like the trees thou there cool ( inner GOLD Dwarf showing)

Can you do the Kraken?

I'm from the northwestern region of Cascadia... But that's in the American plane of existence lol 😂

I saw a formian ant queen mini on gallant goblin channel I think it was pathfinder

Ugh, I can just imagine living here and constantly being fined or punished for opening my vegetable shop a FEW minutes after daylight. And I'd be saying, "It's not my fault! Daylight comes in a split second." They'd definitely nudge me out to a more chaotic plane.

Are you teasing us? 13:20 & 15:36 you bring up Asmodeus in this realm? Now you will need to elaborate in a future episode

Please do Pandemonium.

I wonder if Mechanus is a version of Phyrexia?

Player's Prohibited! Dm's Only. ;)

I get the feeling they won't like my chaos good approach to life. Never except that greater good crap. It leads to stupid.

*saxes third layer* =DDD

So if you can cross over from Forgotten Realms into Dragonlance/Greyhawk settings are there any stories written where this has happened canonically?

So basically... Minecraft.

Wait so the Modrons and Mechanus are canon again?

I'm 3 minutes in and already had an advertisement. I hope you were monetized for this.

Chalk it up to my ingrained Christianity, but I find the idea of dying in the Outer Planes (at least permanent death) to be a horrifying concept. This extends even to the animals, because why would petitioners need to eat? Not even the damned have this need (though desires would certainly abound). One would think the plane would temper the animals' instincts to avoid overpopulation preemptively. Also, do the animals have souls, or is it similar to how fey are recycled?

Et in Arcadia ego.

I created a unique race of halflings found in Arcadia with hair the color of corn silk and psionics,lawful in alignment and quite wise! Neat 🙄

Are you gonna talk about other Devils

Never like that the writers of this book removed a level of this plane. dnd is about some degree of balance so do you then remove two hundred from the abyss, two levels from the nine hells etc...

Why would the writers of this lore - in this case the infinitely abundant and perfectly planned utopia of Arcadia - still have the need to use markets? Markets are literally the product of scarcity??!