My rogue possesses a robe of stars. I'm really excited about it as its ability to take me to the astral plane might make for a great way to escape a bad scenario.
However, will it allow me to return in similar fashion? I would hate to be trapped in the endless empty expanse of the astral.
Heheheh. Far from empty.
Heheheh. Far from empty.
A silvery void that connects the Material and Inner Planes to the Outer Planes, the astral plane is the medium through which the souls of the departed travel to the afterlife. A traveler in the Astral Plane sees the plane as a vast empty void periodically dotted with tiny motes of physical reality calved off of the countless planes it overlaps. Powerful spellcasters utilize the Astral Plane for a tiny fraction of a second when they teleport, or they can use it to travel between planes with spells like astral projection.
It honestly doesn't sound like I'm going to run into much. Idle spirits, momentary teleporters, and the rare powerful spellcaster perhaps?
Looking in the core Bestiary, there isn't a single monster listed as being native to the plane.
Sounds like it is almost entirely empty.
Oh, Pathfinder doesn't own any of the Gith, or the Mind Flayers. And I doubt they can so quickly nab creatures like the Astral Dreadnought, or ...
Yeah, I guess the plane suddenly got a bit emptier, seeing as how not all of its stars could migrate over.
Blame Todd Stewart for your character's demise.
They are not native either. There isn't even any mention in their entry about them frequenting the astral plane.
Even so, I suppose it is certainly a logical assumption, seeing as they are soul hunters. Nevertheless, the odds of actually encountering one on the astral plane is rather remote, I think.
This does assume that your DM has not thought of that and has converted a few 3.5 Critters to populate his world's cosmetology of the astral Plane
I as a DM have done both just to keep players on their toes;)
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Blame Todd Stewart for your character's demise.They are not native either. There isn't even any mention in their entry about them frequenting the astral plane.
Even so, I suppose it is certainly a logical assumption, seeing as they are soul hunters. Nevertheless, the odds of actually encountering one on the astral plane is rather remote, I think.
Did you miss the Ecology section?
ECOLOGY
Environment any (Abaddon or Astral Plane)
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Powerful spellcasters utilize the Astral Plane for a tiny fraction of a second when they teleport, or they can use it to travel between planes with spells like astral projection.
That bit about teleportation is technically no longer true. It used to be the rule pre-Pathfinder, but Paizo disconnected teleportation effects from reliance on the Astral so that they would function in places that lacked access to the Astral, such as inside a locked pocket dimension.
Of course any given GM can run it either way they want to.
This does assume that your DM has not thought of that and has converted a few 3.5 Critters to populate his world's cosmetology of the astral Plane
I as a DM have done both just to keep players on their toes;)
... That's one of the safer assumptions in life.
Weird, I could have sworn there were at least a couple astral plane-specific creatures... hmm
I guess I must be remembering wrong.
Did you miss the Ecology section?
Huh. I suppose I did.
Weird, I could have sworn there were at least a couple astral plane-specific creatures... hmm
I guess I must be remembering wrong.
Like the Owlbearoghemoth! And Astral T-Rex! And the platypus!