Planescape Manual of the Planes for 5e on DMSGuild

New on the DMSGuild is the Manual of the Planes for 5th edition. The cover is stunning.

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It's over 300 pages and the credits page includes folks from The Draconomicon, The Dragonlance Companion, Tasha's Crucible of Everything Else, Planescape: Metropolis, The Honkonomicon and Planewalker.com

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I love the special thanks.

This project was made possible by Roll20. Thank you for unlocking new horizons for the latest generation of planewalkers, bashers, berks, and touts. We’d also like to thank the giants on whose shoulders we stand when writing this book: Justice Ramin Arman, Richard Baker, Wolfgang Baur, David “Zeb” Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, Jeff Grubb, David Noonan, F. Wesley Schneider, Rick Swan, and all others who helped create and cultivate Planescape and the planes.

I've just bought it and am reading it now.

Manual of the Planes (5e) - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Manual of the Planes (5e) - From creators behind The Draconomicon, Tasha's Crucible of Everything Else, Planescape: Metropolis, The Honkonomic

www.dmsguild.com

Here is the table of contents.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well, considering that there are zero of them, I doubt the market on supplements for settings is saturated.

Smart money says any "supplement" they produce will just be another adventure in that setting.

 

[Maxperson]

Smart money says any "supplement" they produce will just be another adventure in that setting.

I don't think so. They way that WotC was talking makes it sound like setting expansions, not adventures.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't think so. They way that WotC was talking makes it sound like setting expansions, not adventures.

See, I don't trust WotC not to make whatever they publish to not be at least mostly an adventure nowadays.

 

[Incenjucar]

See, I don't trust WotC not to make whatever they publish to not be at least mostly an adventure nowadays.

It's one of those things where I understand the model but I also hate the model and see it backfiring eventually, like how Skylanders went from $$$ to .$ after saturation.

 

[Irlo]

I'm not a casual gamer but most of the people I've played with over the last five years have been. I wouldn't have purchased Forgotten Realms setting sourcebooks for Icewind Dale or for Chult, but I did buy Frostmaiden and Tomb of Annihilation. With setting materials imbedded into "mostly adventure" books, I actually read and engaged with the text with improved reading comprehension and retention. Trying to read setting sourcebooks generally makes my eyes glaze over. I didn't buy campaign settings for any editions that I've played (starting with 1e). I became familiar with the Forgotten Realms and Planescape through Balder's Gate and Torment CRPGs. During the 3E years, I spent a lot more on Dungeon Magazine than I spent on rule books.

I guarantee the casual players I know didn't and would not have purchased setting materials. A few of them wanted to try their hands at DMing, and they purchased adventures to run. None of them are reading D&D novels or lore-dumps in their off hours.

I do absolutely love the idea that such an enormous volume of material is available on DMs Guild although I'm not the paying audience they're looking for.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I'm just enjoying this conversation, watching everyone define "casual players" according to their wants and expectations. It's a total tabula rasa of a term.

I'm looking forward to the followup discussion on causal players, those who CAUSED the game to come into existence!

 

[Vincent55]

Cool, where do I buy all the old box sets in paper, for 30 bucks?

i bought them back in the day when i was young in the 80's and 90's

 

[humble minion]

i bought them back in the day when i was young in the 80's and 90's

I bought Planescape, the FR grey box, Dark Sun Revised, and two Al-Qadim boxed sets for $10 each in the late 90s when TSR was circling the drain and the big Australian game importer (there really was only one back then) was having a massive fire sale on their stuff.

 

[Incenjucar]

Skipped ahead to the chapter on the Ethereal since I read the 2E book for that quite recently, and it's a pretty good summary in good language, with my only Hm being that the force damage from burning yourself to move faster should have a note that it cannot be reduced in any way.

 

[Vincent55]

I bought Planescape, the FR grey box, Dark Sun Revised, and two Al-Qadim boxed sets for $10 each in the late 90s when TSR was circling the drain and the big Australian game importer (there really was only one back then) was having a massive fire sale on their stuff.

lol, now those are like 10x that on some places