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No, it wasn't. It was introduced in the Outer Planes Monstrous Compendium Appendix, which was published in 1991, three years before the Planescape setting debuted. It's also part of the 3e Forgotten Realms cosmology and the 3e Eberron cosmology (in the plane of Shavarath). It is mentioned Carl...

Yeah, sorry. I always have to go there, don't I? What I meant is that there's no real "logical" reason to prefer Milton to Moorcock, plot-wise (I won't go into the respective quality of the writing, as Milton didn't write Paradise Lost in two weeks while on chemical stimulants); both authors...

I'll avoid the real-world comparisons and concentrate on the most salient point. The demons and devils are, philosophically, utterly at odds. They are not buddies and they do not agree. They disagree with one another, in fact, as much and as strongly as they disagree with their counterparts on...

You could just as easily say that it's dumb for the "villains" to turn their firepower against the "heroes" rather than their true enemies. The only thing that is dumb is for a villain to ignore their main goals. If you think that their primary thoughts are, "I, as a villain, am naturally...

Awesome. That made me happy. And yeah, obviously folding them into the demonic race has nothing to do with "the origins of these creatures." That's a blatant misrepresentation. I don't know if Spectre666's "spoiler" is a direct quote, but if it is, it doesn't bode well if designers feel...

The Mountain Giant is very Paddington Rumblebottom the Third.

Interesting. In 1e/2e/3e the plural was "efreet" and efreeti was the singular.

First off, the negative posts are way more fun to read than the positive ones. I think the reason is that personal opinions are boring, but when people angrily dis WotC I can bask in the schadenfreude. I am sympathetic toward the long-time fans who feel like their favorite world's been trashed...

Wee Jas is named after the ouija board. Seriously. Is "efreets" the proper plural form now? And they have a king, not a sultan?

According to Dragon #28, Gargauth (called Astaroth there) is "the devil in charge of supervising the activities of devils in the United Sates. This would seem to indicate that the devils find the United States of great importance and stature, for no other nation has a devil of such rank...

There's nothing wrong with Wizards of the Coast releasing generic "Maps of Mystery" or "Trail Maps," but I'm not sure what that has to do with the implied 4e world, which amounts to a "home town" in the DMG, the names of one or two no longer extant empires that could have been anywhere, a...

Tiefling Bariaur Githzerai Modron Githyanki Mercane Kenku Illithid Kuo-toa Yuan-ti

That reminds me of the cappuccino-drinking beatnik vampire elves from Simon Hawke's The Reluctant Sorcerer.

In RuneQuest, they're a kind of plant. Bones made of wood, hair that changes color with the seasons, hibernate in the winter. Extra-flammable, possibly. A tendency to accumulate dog urine and squirrels. I thought that was an interesting take.

Planescape has the Encyclopedia of the planes, which uses different software than Wikipedia (it's something the local webmistress came up with), but does much the same thing. It's still editable if you have a forum account there. I read what I thought was a pretty clever essay on Wikipedia on...

If a book is published, it's notable. I can see complaining that someone's webcomic that three people read and never updates (to pick an extreme example) isn't notable, and honestly a lot of the really obscure monstrous deities from Monster Mythology probably don't deserve entries of their own...

I found two more. The Green Man is completely statted in 1e Deities & Demigods format in UK1 - Beyond the Crystal Cave, page 30. He's a demigod according to page 19. Rais, Lesser Deity of Intellect and Silver Dragonkind, is described in Greyspace, page 92 in what I think you'll find to be an...

I found two more. The Green Man is completely statted in 1e Deities & Demigods format in UK1 - Beyond the Crystal Cave, page 30. He's a demigod according to page 19. Rais, Lesser Deity of Intellect and Silver Dragonkind, is described in Greyspace, page 92 in what I think you'll find to be an...

I found another one. Anguileusis is described and fully statted (in his immature form) in Sea of Blood by Bruce R. Cordell (1997), part of the trilogy of sahuagin-themed adventures supporting the Sea Devils Monstrous Arcana book. Evil Tide, the first in the trilogy, revealed his divine rank...

(Serapis is the Hellenistic fusion of Zeus and Osiris, actually; Ra was associated with Helios or Apollo). Anyway, the Greeks were wroooooong. Blasphemous, arrogant Greeks! The great sun god has nothing in common with their hen-pecked god of clouds! Like the heretics who claim that mighty...