Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

You can now pre-order Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse from D&D Beyond. The set comes out on October 17th.

Scroll down through the comments to see more various peeks at the books!

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

An adventure setting spanning the infinite realities of the world’s greatest roleplaying game

www.dndbeyond.com

• Discover 2 new backgrounds, the Gate Warden & the Planar Philosopher, to build planar characters in the D&D Beyond character builder
• Channel 7 otherworldly feats, new intriguing magic spells & more powered by planar energies
• Explore 12 new ascendant factions, each with distinct cosmic ideologies
• Face over 50 unusual creatures including planar incarnates, hierarch modrons, and time dragons in the Encounter Builder
• Journey across the Outlands in an adventure for characters levels 3-10 and 17
• Adds adventure hooks, encounter tables, maps of Sigil and the Outlands & more to your game

This 3 books set comprises:

• Sigil and the Outlands: a setting book full of planar character options with details on the fantastic City of Doors, descriptions of the Outlands, the gate-towns that lead to the Outer planes, and more
• Turn of the Fortunes Wheel: an adventure set in Sigil and the Outlands designed for character levels 3-10 with a jump to level 17
• Morte’s Planar Parade: Follow Morte as he presents over 50 inhabitants of the Outer Plane, including incarnates, hierarch modrons, time dragons, and more with their stats and descriptions

 

[Parmandur]

They don't expect you to run multiple campaigns in the same setting, they expect you to run Spelljammer for one and when it's done run Dragonlance or Planescape next.

I'd day it's rather that they expect that, or for people to graduate to homebrewing quickly.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They don't expect you to run game-after-game in Dragonlance or Spelljammer, they expect you will run exactly one game in it and move onto the next.

It's a lot better from their standpoint to sell us fish tacos every quarter than to help us fish for ourselves.

 

[MockingBird]

For what it's worth (probably not much, ima right?). I've written a campaign for Chult with only ToA book. There's some nice lore in there, sure it has to be weeded out in some places, but it's there. It's doable, definitely not impossible.

 

[Parmandur]

It's a lot better from their standpoint to sell us fish tacos every quarter than to help us fish for ourselves.

I mean, they also sell the fishing gear (PHB, MM, DMG), even if they don't run full featured river tours.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, they also sell the fishing gear (PHB, MM, DMG), even if they don't run full featured river tours.

Eh, in this metaphor, that's more the tools to make one's own fishing rods and nets. They are explicitly not providing the middle ground of a robust setting for running lots of adventures (not even the Forgotten Realms, which would clearly be their first one if they did it).

We'll see if they change their tune in 2024, but I wouldn't bet on it.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Eh, in this metaphor, that's more the tools to make one's own fishing rods and nets. They are explicitly not providing the middle ground of a robust setting for running lots of adventures (not even the Forgotten Realms, which would clearly be their first one if they did it).

We'll see if they change their tune in 2024, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Even if they're not directly providing all of the "fish" you want, they're still opening up the river for fishing via opening up the setting on DMsGuild, allowing third party creatives to create and sell content for the setting in a centralized location that would have otherwise been dispersed across a hundred fan forums and reddit threads, if it ever made it past the creator's home table at all - a location that just so happens to also host most, if not all, of the original setting material from previous editions.

Say all you want about WotC's products not being up to whatever standard you wish to hold them by, but let's not pretend that opening up older settings on DMsGuild isn't doing anything to breathe new life into them.

 

[Parmandur]

Eh, in this metaphor, that's more the tools to make one's own fishing rods and nets. They are explicitly not providing the middle ground of a robust setting for running lots of adventures (not even the Forgotten Realms, which would clearly be their first one if they did it).

We'll see if they change their tune in 2024, but I wouldn't bet on it.

I mean, the big issue is that approach was disastrous in the past.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, the big issue is that approach was disastrous in the past.

Producing 45,000 settings that were all simultaneously in print was definitely a problem.

Putting out one core setting (let's be honest, it'll be the Forgotten Realms) that they can then set lots of adventures in for years to come, and sell to people who want a fleshed-out setting to run their own games in, likely wouldn't be.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Say all you want about WotC's products not being up to whatever standard you wish to hold them by, but let's not pretend opening older settings up on DMsGuild isn't doing anything to breathe new life into them.

Oh, I am a huge fan of DMs Guild, even if I think WotC is still a little tentative in not opening up settings that they will never, ever do anything with again. (Jakandor isn't getting an official 5E book. Nor is Thunder Rift, for instance.)

 

[Parmandur]

Oh, I am a huge fan of DMs Guild, even if I think WotC is still a little tentative in not opening up settings that they will never, ever do anything with again. (Jakandor isn't getting an official 5E book. Nor is Thunder Rift, for instance.)

I mean, at the rate their going I wouldn't rule out the possibility of anything getting done in modern D&D rules eventually.