Planescape Check Out The Planescape Character Options

WotC has unveiled some of the character options to be found in the upcoming Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse setting in a D&D Beyond article and a video.

The player options include two backgrounds and a handful of feats. The backgrounds are the Gate Warden and the Planer Philosopher, and the feats include Scion of the Outer planes, which gives you a damage resistance and a cantrip based on the plane you have a connect with. For example, a chaotic Outer Place give you resistance to poison and access to the minor illusion cantrip, which the Outlands give you resistance to psychic damage and the mage hand cantrip. Also included are a couple of new spells and some magic items.

Preview Planescape Character Options for Your Multiversal Adventures

This article is a deep dive into the backgrounds and feats found in the three-book set Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse!

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[Micah Sweet]

Ironically, due to how the subclass system is being abused, 5e is ending up with both content bloat and lack of content simultaneously.

It's kind of impressive.

Can't disagree with that. This is why I favor more classes.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Can't disagree with that. This is why I favor more classes.

Ideally I'd like around 17 classes total. Pathfinder 2e has gone over the edge of too many classes for me now.

(I'd also delete/merge an existing 5e class)

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

But the animal companion of druids and rangers are always the same. And with my idea the planar ally also could work as an exosuit/powered armor, or a simbiont. And if the team needed a different strategy, the planar ally could be changed with other. The subclasses could be about different type of summoned monsters.

I wish more classes, but I would rather better than sooner. I guess after the psionic mystic the next step should be the martial adepts, but simple, but example when the attacks is succesful then the martial adept earns "agro points" and the player chooses how these to be spent. This should be simpler than remember when an effect, bonus or penalty is about to end.

The classes no created by WotC then will be published by 3PPs, for example by Mage Hand Press.

Other idea is the harupex class, working like a necromancer but about living tissues, something like the biohacker of Starfinder, and some prestige class. It would be arcane magic mixed with incarnum soulmelds, and some points of essence "locked" for metamagic effects, for example energy substitution.

* How would you imagine the "Spiritfields"?, an echo plane, as the Feywild and the Shadowfell, but more like Kakuriyo/Reikai from Kamigawa.

 

[Stormonu]

I just really want two extra classes - a dedicated psion class and a full-on martial spellcaster, of which Swordmage would be a subclass. Eldritch Knight just doesn't cut it for me and leans too heavily into the martial side and not enough into the spellcasting (I think it should eventually top out at 7th level spells, like the old 1E-2E cleric).

 

[Epic Meepo]

1. Witch... There are currently living practitioners of Wicca/witchcraft aka witches... how do you maneuver around that with this class and is the RoI worth it for WotC to attempt?

Well, there are also Druids currently living in the real world, so...

 

[Epic Meepo]

(I'd also delete/merge an existing 5e class)

Is it the sorcerer? It's the sorcerer, isn't it? [/me being facetious]

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well, there are also Druids currently living in the real world, so...

Yeah, I don't see that as a valid argument.

 

[Imaro]

More options are better than fewer. Use or don't use what you wish, and leave the preferences of others alone.

Infinite options are an impossibility... so choices have to be made on which are published.

 

[Imaro]

Well, there are also Druids currently living in the real world, so...

Druids are legacy...for good or ill. Witches arent.

 

[Divine2021]

You must be confusing them with GW.

I don’t think there is too much a difference between WoTC/ Hasbro and GW at the point, and going forward the similarities will become more apparent.