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

www.dndbeyond.com

• 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

 

[mamba]

Yeah, that smacks of laziness to me. It's basically, "We don't want to be held accountable if something is released that contradicts something we released before so we are getting rid of canon. That way we don't have to worry about it."

it smacks of not wanting one defined canon and giving the DMs options to me.

People on our one world have all kinds of ideas about the origin of things, why would that be any different on the multitude of D&D worlds

Sure, you can argue that some dragon being a god in Planescape but no longer in Fizban’s is an oversight and lazy, and you may be right, it just is not of the least interest to me, regardless of whether it is a ‘bug’ or not, so it is not something I care about

 

[Maxperson]

When you could deviate from canon then, you can choose your canon now

Canon doesn't work that way. You can deviate from canon(what is official), but players cannot create canon(that which is official). They can only establish authorative( but still not canon) home brew for their campaigns.

 

[Parmandur]

My gut tells me that this is WotC's way of trying to get people to switch to D&D Beyond. With a $35 difference it just might work. I understand that the cost of just about everything has gone up in the last 3 years, but I can't see any way to justify that much of a price increase. If that's the cost for 200 pages I can only imagine what the 300+ pages for the D&D2024 core books are going to cost.

$60 for the hardcovers: the page count is less important than three book covers and a slipcase driving the price up. Three small books cost more than one big book.

 

[Maxperson]

People on our one world have all kinds of ideas about the origin of things, why would that be any different on the multitude of D&D worlds

Because it can actually be known in D&D. Or maybe not. As I said, the existence of canon doesn't mean that they cannot establish that some things are vague and unknown as part of canon.

 

[Parmandur]

Guess we'll see come 2024. As for SJ I paid ~$45, its now listed on Amazon for ~$38 a far cry from the $70 MSRP. Whether its a book or a boxed set thats still a pretty steep price for PS

Three hardcover books with full color illustrations, plus a slipcase and full poster map? Less than $30 per book isn't all that odd for industry pricing.

 

[mamba]

Guess we'll see come 2024. As for SJ I paid ~$45, its now listed on Amazon for ~$38 a far cry from the $70 MSRP. Whether its a book or a boxed set thats still a pretty steep price for PS

oh, sure, the $60 is MSRP, it will cost less on Amazon

 

[mamba]

Canon doesn't work that way. You can deviate from canon(what is official), but players cannot create canon(that which is official). They can only establish authorative( but still not canon) home brew for their campaigns.

fine, so the canon is that dragons believe X about something and giants believe Y. No one knows what really happened back then.

I have no problem with that, not sure why everything needs an answer for you

 

[mamba]

Because it can actually be known in D&D. Or maybe not.

it could, but I am not sure it should…

As I said, the existence of canon doesn't mean that they cannot establish that some things are vague and unknown as part of canon.

sounds like that is what they are doing with the ‘dragons believe X, but giants believe Y’

 

[MockingBird]

In my experience, players could care less about Canon. I keep up with it because I enjoy the lore but I've never been hard and fast on strictly sticking to it.

 

[R_J_K75]

$60 for the hardcovers: the page count is less important than three book covers and a slipcase driving the price up. Three book. books cost more than one big book.

Commissioning the art makes sense, something I hadn't considered. But still IMO not every book needs alternate covers, or even be a hardback. When I saw the MSRP I definitely got sticker shock for a minute.