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

 

[Parmandur]

Both complaints completely reasonable and fair with no contradictions between them as shown by WotCs profits

As costs rise, a company has two options: cut costs, or raise prices. Sometimes both. More product, at lower prices...? Not likely.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

A sentient version of Chaos Beasts would have been better, but ones that could be shaped and controlled with enough will power like Limbo itself.

Slaads are the worst Alignment paragon race full stop. The rest actually exemplify their alignments. Demons are chaotic and evil, Modrons are lawful and rigid, Devil Lawful and evil, Celestial Eladrin Chaotic and Good, Archos Lawful and Good in behavior, etc..., they act like their alignment.

Slaads have a rigid hierarchy and act as HORRIFYINGLY EVIL as mindflayers, like they supposed to be Chaotic NEUTRAL, they are failures at their purpose.

No they don't

Slaadi are undisciplined and have no formal hierarchy, although weaker slaadi obey stronger ones under threat of annihilation.

The only ones that are evil are Death Slaadi

Death slaadi are suffused with energy from the Negative Energy Plane and exemplify evil’s corruption of chaos, and they take sadistic pleasure in bringing harm to others. They propagate their race by dragooning mobs of red and blue slaadi and invading other planes. Humanoids who survive the incursion become incubators for new slaadi.

The others unless forced into service by Death Slaadi are not particularly hostile even if they tend to enjoy fighting.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

To be honest, the Great Wheel missed a beat by not making the Chaotic Neutral Plane slightly sinister Faerie.

I think it should straight up been a Dreamland like Nyx of Theros.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

As costs rise, a company has two options: cut costs, or raise prices. Sometimes both. More product, at lower prices...? Not likely.

Look at the massive profits, they don't need to do either, its a broken system and leadership instead.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

No they don't

The only ones that are evil are Death Slaadi

The others unless forced into service by Death Slaadi are not particularly hostile even if they tend to enjoy fighting.

Turning unwilling people into Slaads is evil. Show me an example where they aren't evil, but lean closer to good or even neutral.

 

[Parmandur]

Look at the massive profits, they don't need to do either, its a broken system and leadership instead.

The massive profits come from areas other than books, though those seem to be doing well.

WotC isn't about to sell books at a loss, so wither cutting costs or raising prices have to happen eventually.

 

[Remathilis]

I'd day it's rather that they expect that, or for people to graduate to homebrewing quickly.

It's a lot better from their standpoint to sell us fish tacos every quarter than to help us fish for ourselves.

Just so. They are still selling us Adventure Paths, but now they aren't limited to keeping them Faerun adjacent. They also don't have to track continuity and can introduce PC options from across the Multiverse to sell.

 

[Scribe]

This is the first time I've heard it suggested that SCAG is a meaty setting book covering the Forgotten Realms.

It did all it needed to do.

Gave Tiefling fans a way out of the 4e/5e PHB dead end.

 

[vecna00]

Even if they're not directly providing all of the "fish" you want, they're still opening up the river for fishing via opening up the setting on DMsGuild, allowing third party creatives to create and sell content for the setting in a centralized location that would have otherwise been dispersed across a hundred fan forums and reddit threads, if it ever made it past the creator's home table at all - a location that just so happens to also host most, if not all, of the original setting material from previous editions.

Say all you want about WotC's products not being up to whatever standard you wish to hold them by, but let's not pretend that opening up older settings on DMsGuild isn't doing anything to breathe new life into them.

I was thinking along these same lines.

Those who are interested in doing more with the campaigns will seek out more information online, will most likely run into the DM's Guild, and find lots of PDFs! Maybe they'll dig in and find something of interest and make a purchase...maybe even a sweet POD book!

With zero evidence, I think this may be their intent, whether people like it or not. I think it might work for what they want to do, it just won't please those who want all of these other things. But the really awesome thing is: All that other stuff still exists from previous editions.

 

[SkidAce]

A sentient version of Chaos Beasts would have been better, but ones that could be shaped and controlled with enough will power like Limbo itself.

Slaads are the worst Alignment paragon race full stop. The rest actually exemplify their alignments. Demons are chaotic and evil, Modrons are lawful and rigid, Devil Lawful and evil, Celestial Eladrin Chaotic and Good, Archos Lawful and Good in behavior, etc..., they act like their alignment.

Slaads have a rigid hierarchy and act as HORRIFYINGLY EVIL as mindflayers, like they supposed to be Chaotic NEUTRAL, they are failures at their purpose.

My players ran into a slaad. They saw it in the distance, on a cliff edge, and it was painting something on an easel.

When they got closer, they could see it was painting them watching it paint them, in greater detail then it could have seen from the distance. And some of the characters had weird or ominous changes, like the void touched wizard had a starry outline. They also did not like the fact that the paladin's head was painted as if it was on fire and half burnt.

They tried to buy the painting. The slaad said "No thanks, I don't care for some, I already have any" and disappeared. They left the painting on the cliff edge as they were scared to touch it.