D&D 5E Check Out Planescape's Table of Contents & More!

Brandes Stoddard has received a copy of Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse (which come out in two weeks!) and is posting loads of photos over on Blue Sky. You can check out his feed for the whole treasure trove--here's a look at the table of contents.

 

[Parmandur]

The only part of this approach that truly bums me out is the art direction: Dark Sun and Planescape felt truly different than a Forgotten Realms game, in no small part because of DiTerlizzi and Brom's visions for those worlds. Van Richtens and Rising from the Last War are both very solid books, but they feel expressly like D&D books rather than a Ravenloft book and an Eberron book. I get why that's a good move for the brand, but I do pine for the old approach.

I started with 3E, so my own experience is that the art has improved since then

 

[ersatzphil]

I started with 3E, so my own experience is that the art has improved since then

I'll admit that I found 3e's "dungeon punk" aesthetic very cool at the time, but it hasn't aged well - I certainly don't have the nostalgia for it that I have for a fair amount of 2e art.

I don't care what WAR says, not everything needs to be covered in belts and angst.

 

[Parmandur]

I'll admit that I found 3e's "dungeon punk" aesthetic very cool at the time, but it hasn't aged well - I certainly don't have the nostalgia for it that I have for a fair amount of 2e art.

I don't care what WAR says, not everything needs to be covered in belts and angst.

It didn't feel dated at the time!

 

[dave2008]

Information about areas of the setting not covered or insufficiently covered by the old material.

Ok, that might help you, but that helps no one who his new to the setting. And from what they have shown they are covering the gate towns in more detail than they ever have!

New realms, new setting details, an example would be setting information on planes that didn't exist in 2e (at least not in the same form), like the Feywild, the Shadowfell, or the Far Realm.

A lot of that sounds more like a manual of the planes book than a sigil and the outlands book. that may yet be a thing, though I am think around 2025 for that

A decent amount of player-facing material, both new and updated from the old work.

That is not something I don't care about, but I will admit that is something people seem to want. So I agree that could have been added to the product.

 

[Parmandur]

Ok, that might help you, but that helps no one who his new to the setting. And from what they have shown they are covering the gate towns in more detail than they ever have!

A lot of that sounds more like a manual of the planes book than a sigil and the outlands book. that may yet be a thing, though I am think around 2025 for that

That is not something I don't care about, but I will admit that is something people seem to want. So I agree that could have been added to the product.

For my money, a book like Bigby’s covering Outsiders and the Planes as places to Adventure so as to interact with the inhabitants seems the way to go: they did a bit of that in Tome of Foes, but like the Giant stuff in Volo's that been depreciated.

 

[Kurotowa]

It didn't feel dated at the time!

As I believe we've gone over before, some people are happy to move with the changing times, and some people's tastes ossify in their teens or early twenties. It can be art, it can be music, it can be which version of Batman is best... but they decide "This is what I like" and stick with it for the rest of their lives.

You can't really blame them for liking what they like. That's their choice, and entirely up to them. But it does lead to a lot of the "Things were better back in the old days, the stuff kids these days like are bad and wrong" complaints, and those do get tiresome.

(For the record, I'm fine with the art changes in D&D, but I fully admit my music tastes are more for 80s throwback rock and metal. I just try to put more effort into finding where that music still exists than complaining about how mainstream American music doesn't give me what I want.)

 

[dave2008]

There is a lot of planar information sprinkled throughout the SRD. I would not be surprised to see a 3PP "manual of the planes" hit KS soon after PS' release.

I don't think you could do that in Kickstarter, wouldn't have to be on DMsGuild.

FYI, there are already such products on DMsGuild

 

[Reynard]

For my money, a book like Bigby’s covering Outsiders and the Planes as places to Adventure so as to interact with the inhabitants seems the way to go: they did a bit of that in Tome of Foes, but like the Giant stuff in Volo's that been depreciated.

For WotC's money, too. They can sell that book to lots of people that didn't buy Planescape. Otherwise they can be almost certain that however many they might sell of a Planescape: More Planes book, it will be fewer than the number that bought PS.

 

[darjr]

New update in the OP.

 

[Reynard]

I don't think you could do that in Kickstarter, wouldn't have to be on DMsGuild.

FYI, there are already such products on DMsGuild

I am not talking about a DMs Guild product. I am talking about a Planar 3PP product. WotC put the SRD into Creative Commons. Everything in it is fair game. There is a lot of Great Wheel cosmology that is in it. Someone could do a 3PP Great Wheel book and it would be perfectly legal.