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.

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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

 

[Parmandur]

I guess this does confirm that the Minsc' and Boo's Journal of Villainy book was indeed third party or at least not canon - since the Demodands in there had completely different art and stat blocks (no summoning for example, Farastu was CR7 and could get weapons stuck to its skin).
Love the new art for them, and the descriptions are spot on. No mention of triangles or Apomps, though.
Can't wait for the miniatures from Wizkids. I do wonder if Shator will be Large sized.


Yeah, I wish they would call them Tanar'ri and Baatezu and Gehreleths more. Though some sources still do mention these names. It especially got more interesting around 3E when we had Demons in the Abyss who were NOT Tanar'ri.

No D&D book outside of the core three is "canon".

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I've had my eye on that supplement. Is it worth it? I'd definitely want it in POD form. I'm just not sure I'd ever really get to use it.

Depends on what you're looking for, but I think it's a fairly decent book.

156 pages, a chapter with a mid-level overview of four FR cities (Baldur's Gate, Athkatla, Suldanessellar, and Ust Natha), a chapter on FR-specific group patrons (with assorted named NPCs), a couple of chapters of villainous NPCs, both top tier campaign-enders (a couple archdevils, a demon lord, an archomental, the avatar of a god) and powerful henchmen (many of whom could be campaign villains in their own right), as well as a more general bestiary.

 

[BB Shockwave]

A redesigned parai/visilight is my guess. A bit niche, but what is a Planescape release for if not niche planar creatures.

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Funny thing is, a few years ago the Baldur's Gate comic had an issue where the Elf Wild Mage girl finds herself on Mechanus and has all sorts of adventures, such as being chased by Modrons, meeting a Moigno (those intelligent equations given form), and then she gets attacked by a Parai that inspects her and then tries to bond with her to make her "perfect".

At the end, she gets tried by the Fraternity of Order's local branch, found guilty of various violations and is exiled back to the material plane (while she gives a passionate speech about her right to exist, thinking they want to execute her). It is a great short intro into the plane.

No D&D book outside of the core three is "canon".

I meant "official", more like. But I am pretty sure that whatever WotC makes IS canon, from Volo's Guide to Spelljammer.

Also if Guardinals are confirmed by that art, then Archons are likely coming too.

That has been my fervent hope ever since we had Princes of the Apocalypse and I saw that WotC renamed the 4E Archon Elementals to Myrmidons. I mean why do that, unless they planned to do the Celestial Archons one day?

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I meant "official", more like. But I am pretty sure that whatever WotC makes IS canon, from Volo's Guide to Spelljammer.

Minsc and Boo's was a WotC produced book, it was just released as a charity tie-in like Domains of Delight and a number of others rather than as a regular product.

 

[Parmandur]

I meant "official", more like. But I am pretty sure that whatever WotC makes IS canon, from Volo's Guide to Spelljammer.

No, they have an officially posted canon policy: only what is in the Core 3 books is "canonical," and licensees or WotC can freely ignore anything from any other book as desired when making something new, whether another book or a .exchange dise tie-in. WotC isn't holding any of their partners or themselves to an ongoing "canon" at all. Heck, changing what's "canon" is probably one of the primary goals of the new Core booka.

 

[Parmandur]

Minsc and Boo's was a WotC produced book, it was just released as a charity tie-in like Domains of Delight and a number of others rather than as a regular product.

Well, in the same way that the other Extra Life stuff is: but that doesn't get developed in the same way full products do, so it's more like James Wyatt homebrew Magic documents before Ravnica.

 

[BB Shockwave]

Minsc and Boo's was a WotC produced book, it was just released as a charity tie-in like Domains of Delight and a number of others rather than as a regular product.

Sure, but if it was "canon" as in, official, they would have referred to its stat blocks in later adventures. Or they would have been up on D&D Beyond. We mini collectors at Minisgallery also wondered whether Wizkids would make minis of them - after all that book had art and stats for Baalzebul, Cryonax, Sssendam and Mephistopheles too. But that never happened. WotC re-doing the Demodands clearly points to this book not really part of the rest of the releases.

As a note, no idea whether the center portion of the below image is meant to be current day or a notable scene from the past, but it clearly shows both Duke Rowan Darkwood and Hashkar (pre-FW Factols of the Fated and Fraternity of Order respectively, both of whom died as a result of the Faction War) along with Rhys (pre-FW Factol of the Transcendent Order, who survived by skipping town and stepped down as Factol after returning post-FW). Far right seems to be a Cranium Rat swarm masquerading as a humanoid. No idea about the mouse-person on the left.

I am wondering if that group of Cranium Rats masquerading as a person isn't meant to be a sort of humanoid avatar for Many-as-One, the Cranium Rat gestalt entity?
But maaan if they really erased Faction War from canon, I'd be ecstatic. I hated that book. The fact this book has 12 factions probably means this is true, since the Lady of Pain banished them from Sigil at the end of that adventure.

No, they have an officially posted canon policy: only what is in the Core 3 books is "canonical," and licensees or WotC can freely ignore anything from any other book as desired when making something new, whether another book or a .exchange dise tie-in. WotC isn't holding any of their partners or themselves to an ongoing "canon" at all. Heck, changing what's "canon" is probably one of the primary goals of the new Core booka.

That's not how I view it. IMHO anything that WotC themselves publishes is to me, canon. Any third party stuff like Kobold Press, isn't. Simple as that. I mean that's how things went in the previous 4 editions too, so I am using this logic and that's that.

Seemingly portraying a Shator (or possibly Kelubar) Gehreleth/Demodand.

Given the size, and the fur, I'd say that is a Shator indeed! Looks pretty nice.
Time Dragon looks pretty epic. A much needed upgrade from the 3E art that was just a striped White Dragon basically.
I wonder if that Modron patrol marching through the weird fungal tunnel with that horned skull might not be in Ygorl's domain?
Agreed that the floating empty armor-like creature could be a redesign of the Parai.
The cute mouse-creature could be a new Guardinal. I mean, Pathfinder invented a few new ones too.
The colorful Horses running under the Walking Castle are Nic'Epona!

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Sure, but if it was "canon" as in, official, they would have referred to its stat blocks in later adventures. Or they would have been up on D&D Beyond.

Domains of Delight wasn't on Beyond either, despite being broadly seen as cut content from Witchlight, until it suddenly was fairly recently. Same with the Tortle Package, One Grung Above, Infernal Machine Rebuild, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if Minsc and Boo's comes to Beyond sooner or later, even if they treat it as a first draft for anything they end up updating in products down the line (a la demodands in Planescape).

I am wondering if that group of Cranium Rats masquerading as a person isn't meant to be a sort of humanoid avatar for Many-as-One, the Cranium Rat gestalt entity?

Possibly the Us? Or any other cranium rat swarm, really.

But maaan if they really erased Faction War from canon, I'd be ecstatic. I hated that book. The fact this book has 12 factions probably means this is true, since the Lady of Pain banished them from Sigil at the end of that adventure.

Happen to like Faction War myself, in concept at least, but that may have more to do with me coming into the fandom with 3e and missing Planescape's heyday. Regardless, there were 16 Factions pre-FW, so even if they retcon Faction War out of the timeline, it'll be a updated remix of pre-FW, not a straight reboot.

 

[Parmandur]

That's not how I view it. IMHO anything that WotC themselves publishes is to me, canon. Any third party stuff like Kobold Press, isn't. Simple as that. I mean that's how things went in the previous 4 editions too, so I am using this logic and that's that.

But that's not how WotC is treating anything, so trying to apply a standard that WotC isn't adhering to will lead to confusion when the rubber Mets the road. Treating WotC products as indicative of "canon" have bad predictive value, because WotC will release stuff that contradicts that.

"Fifth edition’s canon includes every bit of lore that appears in the most up-to-date printings of the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide. Beyond these core rulebooks, we don’t have a public-facing account of what is canonical in fifth edition because we don’t want to overload our fellow creators and business partners."

D&D Canon | D&D Studio Blog | Dungeons & Dragons

In this D&D Studio Blog, Chris Perkins describes the D&D Studio's position on canonicity.

dnd.wizards.com

 

[Parmandur]

I wouldn't be surprised if Minsc and Boo's comes to Beyond sooner or later, even if they treat it as a first draft for anything they update in products down the line (a la demodands in Planescape)

It's really just James Ohlen's homebrew to tie his work from Bioware into the current rules.