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

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• 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

 

[overgeeked]

My players ran into a slaad. They saw it in the distance, on a cliff edge, and it was painting something on an easel.

When they got closer, they could see it was painting them watching it paint them, in greater detail then it could have seen from the distance. And some of the characters had weird or ominous changes, like the void touched wizard had a starry outline. They also did not like the fact that the paladin's head was painted as if it was on fire and half burnt.

They tried to buy the painting. The slaad said "No thanks, I don't care for some, I already have any" and disappeared. They left the painting on the cliff edge as they were scared to touch it.

That's fantastic.

 

[overgeeked]

Adventures are to be used by DMs s and players. That seems obvious to me, not sure your point.

To be read by the referee to run the players through.

If the players are reading the module...that's a big, big problem.

 

[Quickleaf]

I would propose that the Spelljammer campaign is essentially like having taken the sundry adventure locations as seen in previous Setting books (or Fizban's or Bigby, for that matter), and stringing them along in an ostensible story. In 64 pages, that book packs a lot of dungeons thst can be excised from the story and used in different ways.

That's refreshing to here. Everyone I've heard reviewing Spelljammer commented on the linearity of the adventure, so you are the first one I've heard describing it having modular parts.

 

[Remathilis]

Exactly. Good business beats good design every time.

Ideally, WotC wants D&D to be Legos. You buy a Lego set and they give you instructions on how to build the thing on the box, but they don't care if you use the parts to build something else. They're just not giving you extra pieces or instructions on how to do anything but what is on the box. Further, they aren't really in the market to sell you the big tub of blocks anymore; they make a lot more money selling you Avengers HQ or the Millennium Falcon.

 

[Demetrios1453]

That's refreshing to here. Everyone I've heard reviewing Spelljammer commented on the linearity of the adventure, so you are the first one I've heard describing it having modular parts.

Well, it's both. The modular parts would have to be played in that exact order if run as a campaign (unlike, say, SKT, where you can visit the various modular giant locations in any order, or even skip all but one, while playing the adventure), but parts could definitely be taken out and run individually with little or no modification.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Exactly. Good business beats good design every time.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

On the subject of Limbo and Slaad, I always thought it was weird that 5e didn't find a way to combine the Elemental Chaos and Limbo. They seem pretty similar.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

On the subject of Limbo and Slaad, I always thought it was weird that 5e didn't find a way to combine the Elemental Chaos and Limbo. They seem pretty similar.

They were desperate to jettison anything that smelled like 4E stuff, even stuff that worked better.

whispers: "like their version of the multiverse"

 

[MonsterEnvy]

The Elemental Chaos was mostly a renamed Limbo.

 

[overgeeked]

They were desperate to jettison anything that smelled like 4E stuff, even stuff that worked better.

whispers: "like their version of the multiverse"

The cosmology was so, so much better in 4E. One of the many, many instances of throwing the baby out with the bath water.