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

 

[Micah Sweet]

Then you are not the audience.

Clearly not. Too bad that's what they're offering; I like Planescape. No need to yell.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Grafted onto an already existing monster (they first appeared in the Fiend Folio, years before Planescape was even an idea). It's the equivalent of the poor bastards making new Star Wars content and required to make Rise of Skywalker retroactively seem like it makes sense.

At the very least, the primary representatives of Limbo shouldn't be creatures with a rigid hierarchy. Either there needs to be another, more prominent group of inhabitants, or they should just have a random appearance generator for slaadi, even if the DM uses the conventional stats.

I don't really care  when they provide the explanation, as long as they do. Consistency matters to me.

 

[TheSword]

I still can't get over no new races, subraces, or even racial variants.
They could have done Glitchlings, Mephitlings, Bladelings, Babiurs, Celestial Eladarin, Ardlings, Aasimar using the Ardlings version 1.0 mechanics, Genasi/Aasimar/Tieflings with something similar to the SCAG Tiefling variant, Limbo race, Plumach Rilmani, etc..., instead we get none. Bugs me, just feels so low effort.

I strongly suspect the reason they haven’t is that they haven’t locked in the details of new races and therefore don’t want to release something 9 months before the new core books. We won’t see something major like a race before 2024 is done. Whereas subclasses are already confirmed as compatible.

 

[TheSword]

None of that sounds like a positive to me (I liked the Cant quite a bit, and feel the essence of the setting is harmed without it).

It was fun to read, but to be honest I don’t want to have to learn a new language to DM a setting.

 

[I'm A Banana]

For those who don't use adventures, it's a waste of space, BUT that doesn't mean we know its quality yet.

One minor disappointment here is that it is One Adventure, and not like a dozen smaller ones. But I guess that means it's off to DM's Guild I go...

 

[I'm A Banana]

Yeah, if I were in charge of Planescape, I would have a random appearance system for slaadi. No one should have any idea which color of slaadi they're dealing with. (In fact, I'd probably change their colors to descriptors for quarks -- up, charm, top, down, strange and bottom -- just to drive that home.)

This is a cool idea, if only that the reaction on my players' faces when I tell them "This slaad is a bottom" would be priceless.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Nah. None of them affect the ENTIRE plane like you just described Primus doing. Nor do they affect a plane other than the one they dwell on, like you just described Primus doing.

I dunno, making a monster species doesn't seem to be equivalent to affecting an entire plane to me. Wizard makes an owlbear to impose a sense of owlbeariness on the Material Plane, doesn't really change the Material Plane, just means it's full of a bunch of owlbears now. If you go with the Primus theory, it's not much different from any powerful entity creating a living species on any plane. Slaad are from limbo. They aren't defining of Limbo (any more than Githyanki define the Astral Plane, anyway)

 

[I'm A Banana]

I am grumpy about there being only 12 factions! The big map includes the HQs of the 12 factions that have HQ's (leaving out the Hive for the Xaositects and, of course, the Anarchists, who just have safehouses), and I know we have to live with a post-Faction War world, but I am still disappoint. I also don't know how they're going to weave in the faction powers (if at all) - the feats the list are broad. They could adopt the piety system from Theros, I suppose, and get away with it.

Going with Morte for the bestiary instead of Xanxost is a disappointing choice, if only because a bestiary written by Xanxost would be the best thing. Another thing I will have to put on DM's guild! (I do have a book of archon conversions up there, if WotC doesn't do it...)

...I only hope I'll have enough time to write some stuff this autumn. Sounds like the setting isn't quite complete.

 

[Demetrios1453]

They are. It's a matter of degree though. 1/3rd of a campaign setting slipcase devoted to monsters is A LOT, at least for me.

The issue is compounded by the size of the adventure as well. For example, if it was 2/3 campaign setting, 1/3 monsters, and a few pages of adventure? Yeah, that amount of monsters would be more palatable to me.

Of course YMMV.

Actually, it's well under 1/3, as the bestiary is 64 pages, while the other two books are 96.

 

[Maxperson]

I dunno, making a monster species doesn't seem to be equivalent to affecting an entire plane to me. Wizard makes an owlbear to impose a sense of owlbeariness on the Material Plane, doesn't really change the Material Plane, just means it's full of a bunch of owlbears now. If you go with the Primus theory, it's not much different from any powerful entity creating a living species on any plane. Slaad are from limbo. They aren't defining of Limbo (any more than Githyanki define the Astral Plane, anyway)

This is what was said,

"And I like the Primus dropped the spawning stone in limbo to force a sense of order on the creatures there."

Limbo is the plane of pure chaos. Being able to impose order on the inhabitants is in defiance of what the entire plane stands for. You have to be able to overcome the power of the whole plane to do something like that. It would be like Bahamut changing one of the layers of the abyss LG to force a sense of orderly goodness on that plane. It just doesn't work and isn't something a god has the power to do.