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

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Still not seeing a problem here. If you don't like the style (and you've said as much), of course you're going to see it with a "glass half-empty" eye. Everybody does that.

They're debunking the argument that the boxed set had more content than the new set will.

It's a factual argument, not a statement of preference.

 

[Micah Sweet]

They're discounting the argument that the boxed set had more content than the new set will.

It's a factual argument, not a statement of preference.

It is a partially factual argument being presented because of preference.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It is a partially factual argument being presented because of preference.

Facts don't care about anyone's preferences.

The old boxed set was not more information dense.

It's a mistake to think so, no matter how fondly one many think of the original boxed set.

 

[Parmandur]

You are 100% wrong with this, at least when it comes to Planescape. The Planescape set had bigger fonts, and the art took up more space than modern books.

Here's a side-by-side comparison from the 2e Planescape set and the 5e Spelljammer set:

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It's not just Planescape: Tales from the Yawning Portal, Curse of Strahd, and Ghosts of Saltmarsh all have more efficient font and layout than the 1E originals that they reprint.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's not just Planescape: Tales from the Yawning Portal, Curse of Strahd, and Ghosts of Saltmarsh all have more efficient font and layout than the 1E originals that they reprint.

If anything, Tales from the Yawning Portal underscores how content-light a lot of classic adventures were. (Now, I would have taken that as an opportunity to flesh them out to modern standards, but I guess I accidentally screened WotC's call when they reached out for my opinion.)

 

[Incenjucar]

I'm as prepared as anyone to get all grumpy about the new books being dim shades of the older books but we should probably wait until the new books are in hand to complain about their contents, aside from using up an absurd page count for the adventure.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I'm as prepared as anyone to get all grumpy about the new books being dim shades of the older books but we should probably wait until the new books are in hand to complain about their contents, aside from using up an absurd page count for the adventure.

I like the adventure is going to be 96 pages. Well to be exact I will like that it is 96 pages if it's a decent quality adventure, but ones with more page space I tend to prefer.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I'm as prepared as anyone to get all grumpy about the new books being dim shades of the older books but we should probably wait until the new books are in hand to complain about their contents, aside from using up an absurd page count for the adventure.

If we didn't judge books by their covers before they're even released, we'd argue about something even less important.

 

[Parmandur]

If anything, Tales from the Yawning Portal underscores how content-light a lot of classic adventures were. (Now, I would have taken that as an opportunity to flesh them out to modern standards, but I guess I accidentally screened WotC's call when they reached out for my opinion.)

Well, to be fair, both Chrse of Strahd and Ghoats of Saltmarsh do that to a large extent. For Yawning Portal, most of their work apparently went into Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury to update the Baroque 3E NPC builds into 5E blocks.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

It is a partially factual argument being presented because of preference.

You don't have to see a problem, it's just a fact that the older book will have had a larger font. And, unless the new book's layout is utterly screwed up, more obtrusive art.