Planescape 5e Planescape- What would you like to see in the upcoming setting?

[cbwjm]

Maybe they'll have a number of the NPCs in Sigil show up in the monster book.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe they'll have a number of the NPCs in Sigil show up in the monster book.

With Spelljammer, they designed their named NPCs around New generic NPC statblocks.

 

[Quickleaf]

My predictions for the 64-page monster book...

• A few reprints, particularly Cranium Rats, maybe a few fiends, maybe even mercanes/arcanes.
• The Cat Lord!
• Dabus
• Hierarch Modrons
• Some callback to Planescape: Torment, either in the form of a specific NPC or one of the oddball monsters
• Some callback to Uncaged: Faces of Sigil with unique stats, possibly Sly Nye?
• Hordelings, who've been in every edition since 1e and have yet to make a 5e appearance, with or without the artifact box that unleashes hundreds of them
• Maelephants as big bad gate guardians, hopefully also funny
• Hollyphants! We got a tease with Lulu in BGiA, but now we'll see the terror of the hollyphants for real
• Some kind of "Monster of Legend" that may be set up as a social encounter
• A modest smattering of celestials selected from archons, light angels or agathinon angels, guardinals, celestial eladrin, lillend, asura, etc.
• Some kind of intangible "bonding" creature like Incarnates
• Some kind of "magical double" creature like the Aleax
• Spellhaunts
• Chaos Beasts or Chaos Imps from Limbo
• Gear Spirits, Moignos, or Mediators from Mechanus
• Viper Trees
• Abyssal Bats (Varrangoin), the one Planescape demon that hasn't been converted yet
• New devils like the Kokrachon and Hellcat (Bezekira)
• The Baernoloth
• Achaierai, for another throwback to the Fiend Folio

 

[Faolyn]

Achaierai, for another throwback to the Fiend Folio

The achaierai were updated in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy (they're CR 5). I could see WotC reprinting them.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Demodands and Hierarch Morton’s I expect.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

With Spelljammer, they designed their named NPCs around New generic NPC statblocks.

Literally the first genuinely good thing I've heard about Spelljammer. Certainly a good direction.

 

[Parmandur]

Literally the first genuinely good thing I've heard about Spelljammer. Certainly a good direction.

Honestly, what's there is pretty good, it would have just been better as 320 pages instead of 192.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Honestly, what's there is pretty good, it would have just been better as 320 pages instead of 192.

Even if it got the 256 that Planescape is getting, actually...

 

[Parmandur]

Even if it got the 256 that Planescape is getting, actually...

For sure! My main comparison is Eberron, which got 320 pages. If they had edited down Rising from the Last War to 192 pages, that would be pretty frustrating.

 

[Stormonu]

Yeah, I have to agree. I love delving into the big name planar powers like the Lords of Nine, but in Mord's Tome of Foes and Monsters of the Multiverse, they didn't just stat out a Lord of Nine in Zariel, but also former Lords of Nine like Geryon and Moloch and even lesser Infernal Nobles like Bael, Hutijin, and Titivilus.

I've been mapping out the political structure of Baator the Nine Hells for a personal project for some time, and if they go by the metric used in MToF, they're looking at dozens of statblocks to draw from. The Rabble of Devilkin, a collection lesser archdevils living in exile in the hinterlands of Avernus, is a good 15+ names just by itself, and that's before getting into the consorts and courts of the various Lords of Nine. Then, if I were to indulge in some wishful thinking, you'd also need to consider the Dark Eight, the generals of the Three Commands, and the various deities that set up shop on Baator in the Nine Hells like Tiamat and Set and their respective entourages.

That's basically a full-sized sourcebook on Baator the Nine Hells in and of itself, well before getting into talking about Demon Lords they have yet to touch on (of which there are a similar, if not greater, number), hierarch modrons, gehreleths demodands, guardinals, eladrin whatever the CG celestials are now, rilmani, ratatosk, dabus, and other planar creatures.

In a 64 page book ostensibly covering an array of creatures from across the multiverse, that'd be basically impossible.

Going in-depth on the Lords of Hell and the Abyss would be fodder for a book along the lines of 3E's Fiendish Codex or the Planes of Law (Baator)/Chaos (Abyss). I'd rather not more than an overview of the power structure/court clutter up a Planescape campaign book that supposedly covering ALL the planes (I'm not fond of the fascination with demons & devils in the game - especially rulers who are unlikely to ever be directly faced, and the less of them, the happier I am).