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

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I guess the glitchlings have got ordinary body proportions, and then they can wear standars armours and clothing. And maybe glitchlings are reskinned modrons but reskined mechanus planetouched.

TIME DRAGONS! Really I didn't guess this. Do you know what could it mean? It could be the return of the chronomancers, and these altering the D&D multiverse cosmology. Maybe Rig-Laganth that civilitation appeared in the sourcebook could become a mini-setting. But then if it is unlocked in DMGuild, we could see alternate timelines created by fandom (Jakandor, Mystara, Greyhawk, Dark Sun..). What if chronomancers avoided the creation of the overseers, the evil aliens of Odissey: Tale of the Comet?

How would be a time dragonborn? I guess like if a Timelord and a Silurian married and conceived a baby.

Could planar incarnates work as warlocks' patrons?

Why no new PC species? It seems as saved for a future planar handbook.

 

[humble minion]

It seems as saved for a future planar handbook.

If we've learned anything about WotCs 5e business model after nearly 10 years, it's that all books are standalone and no follow-up products to setting books will be produced.

If planar-specific PC species aren't in here, it's not because they're being saved for any future product, it's because they aren't going to be released at all (outside of fan material on DMsGuild anyway). Rogue modron PCs have gone to the same place as the Shou spelljamming fleets, and the Shaar, and Gully Dwarves have gone.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I can understand "sequel" sourcebooks are harder to be sold, but a planar handbook can be sold perfectly as an independient title or standalone.

My theory is the planning to create new PC species will be different after the rewritten core books in the next year.

Maybe the comingsoon event caused by Vecna could reset the D&D cosmology, with changes to allow planar adventures for low-level PCs. For example astral domains working as "Gate-Demiplanes", like the Gate-Towns from Planescape but so big as complete regions.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I think Book of Many Things is another experimental product. End of editions tend to get experimental.

The lack of new races is pathetic, they could have at least tossed Ardling here. They will likely point to MP: MotM for that. Ironically Spelljammer got more Planescape flavoured races then Planescape, with Astral Elves.

Just once it'd be nice if they didn't drop the ball.

At least the maps look cool.

I suppose the game needed good feats more then anything.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Folks think we will get all 9 or 10 Hierach Modrons, I think we will get the 3 to 5 Hierach Modrons WotC thinks will be most useful. There is just too much redundancies in Hierach Modrons for all 9/10 in a book of only 50 stats.

Eater of Knowledge might be either Aberration or Fiend. Btw caverns of thought on the map contradicts what VGtMs said about the Mindflayer Gods.

I think there might be a domain of one of the demoted to Great Wyrm Dragon Gods as well.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The specie traits of the ardlings could change, and maybe the lore could be reimagined but I suspect Hasbro liked the concept of ardlings like antropomorphic animals with a little celestial touch. They are too perfect to sell toys to be rejected totally.

It is curious but I liked more the spikers as PC specie than tielflings although I don't imagine spikers like people you want a strong hug by them. How saying it softly? Spikers are the type of humanoids a womanizer bard didn't want to date.

* Now I am imagining the plane of mirrors as a D&D version of TV serie "The twighlight zone". Let's imagine "planar shards" were acquired by this plane creating a "kaleidoscope effect" of planar gates.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yep Chronepsis, Dragon God of Fate, Judgement, and Death, has his afterlife shown on the map, suggesting as far as Planescape is concerned, his demotion from God to Great Wyrm in FToD never happened. 5e lore contradicts itself again. This time I'm glad because that was a mess.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Most of the names on the map are either known divine realms of Mindflayer God, Beholder God, Ubtao, Gond, Thoth, Lizardfolk God, Naga Goddess, Norns, Dragon, Annam, Gond, a Halfling Goddess, or Gate Towns, or the Great Pass, but there are two unknowns.

1. Moradin's Anvil. My guess is they decided to move the whole Dwarf Pantheon to the Outlands where Dwarf Mountain used to be (Dwarf Mountain was an Divine Domain of three Dwarf Gods).
2. Dendradis, my guess is they moved Dendar the Night Serpent to the Outlands when they promoted her to God of Nightmares.

All the Gods domains shown are worshipped in FR, except the Norns, although they are acknowledged in FR.

 

[Malmuria]

Color palette's also clearly mirroring the original Planescape Campaign Setting boxset cover. It's a beautiful piece of art.
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Except Sigil is a torus so it should be closed, like the inside of a donut. Unless they are changing that

 

[Ondath]

Except Sigil is a torus so it should be closed, like the inside of a donut. Unless they are changing that

I've seen contradicting depictions of it throughout the years. I guess having it be an open ring makes it easier to map (too many parts wrapping up to each other in the torus), so that's what they went with. But honestly I've seen both official art and fan art that went both ways.