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So... I guessed right, then? There probably won't be any full articles on Abraxas, Haagenti, Socothbenoth, Nocticula, or the others described in that other book? Yeep! Consider it retracted.

You can fly from one side of Sigil to the opposite side - it's only if you go over the edge that you're in trouble. No one knows what happens if you go over the edge. There are stories of people who have leapt into the void and returned, years later, claiming to have been transported to a...

Of course they aren't; the Spire, as you'll recall, is infinitely tall. The illustrations obviously don't convey that. I'm impressed by your Finder's Bane quote. That's a book I haven't read. Consider the point made.

There's a bit of ambiguity going on with regards to Green Ronin's Book of Fiends, wherein Erik Mona described many of these "nothing-but-a-name" lords pretty thoroughly. The brief descriptions of their D&D equivalents are deliberately pretty compatible with those (for example, Haagenti is lord...

Well, the Fiendish Codex I doesn't distinguish between lords. Every unique demon is considered a lord, even beings like the Kerzit who don't rule any Abyssal territory. And yes, checking From the Ashes, Xazivort is unique. "Foremost among the enemies of Pholtus’ priesthood is a powerful...

He did, actually. The events in H4 are mentioned explicitly on page 58. Whatever criticisms you make, lack of knowledge of H4 isn't a valid one. The time differential is odd, though; Dead Gods takes place a few centuries after the events of H4. Either the adventure is set in the far future of...

No, I can't, but I can't point you to a description that says it can. I can point you to many descriptions that say the Spire is infinitely tall, and you're free to interpret that as you will. What is this "need?" I certainly don't feel the need to interpret Sigil that way, and I'm the one...

I'm not completely convinced Xazivort is even of lord status. He could be just as easily be a glabrezu or something. His whole thing is that he was imprisoned by clerics of Pholtus and then he escapes and possesses a paladin - from the meager abilities he manifests in the adventure, there's no...

The stats for githzerai as a PC race in the Planescape boxed set were different from the stats for githzerai as a monster in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (and in the Monstrous Manual). From ability scores to planeshifting and psionics, a lot was dropped to make them playable as...

No, I pointed to them as evidence that Sigil can't be seen from the Outlands. That's not the same thing at all as it not being depicted above the Spire. Sigil is depicted as floating above the Spire because that's where it is, officially. That doesn't mean someone standing in the Outlands can...

The one you put above, for example, from page 7 of "A Player's Guide to the Planes." Sigil's up in the white space, on the paper rather than the sky. Or two pages earlier, on page 5, where Sigil's again shown outside the circle rather than within it. Or the poster map of the multiverse, where...

Hardly any of them do, actually; the majority of them show the Spire either with no top or with Sigil off in the margins, outside the frame of the picture proper. For example, in the illustration above, Sigil is seen in the white space outside where the blue sky ends. The text never mentions...

A few misunderstandings above. First of all, nowhere does it say that you can see Sigil from the Outlands. I like to think you can, since I like the paradox of "you can see the top, but you can also tell it's infinite just by looking at it - it's the idea of infinity itself that you're looking...

BAH! How obnoxious that would be! As if Niddhogg can't have offspring! (as a matter of fact, according to Planes of Conflict, she does...)

It's difficult to use 0D&D Mystaran sources with AD&D/3e D&D, though, since the basic assumptions are so different. Ranivorous' biography isn't the same as Yeenoghu's, nor should it be.

From the Living Greyhawk Journal #5: "The ursine figure is in fact a guardinal, a normally chaotic good outsider dedicated to contemplative philosophical pursuits. In late 591 CY, a group of adventurers from Safeton known as the Crimson Cadre sold the creature to the arena for a pretty penny...

The 3e conversion of Al-Qadim calls the 2e sorcerer class the saher. I don't remember which provinces Almahazad specialized in.

I saw a map like that in this thread on the WotC boards. Here's a direct link to the map.

Iggwilv as a Red Wizard? I like it. But if I were doing this, the world would be much less Faerun and much more the Flanaess, since Oerik's ethnic groups and history are a major part of what I like about the setting, and the ethnic groups and history of the Realms are a major part of what I...

Something Miscellany said in this thread on the Wizards boards rings true to me: In most campaigns, whether Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Dragonlance, Eberron, Ptolus, Diamond Throne, Scarred Lands, Wilderlands, Blackmoor, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, or whatever, whether or not the setting is part of a...