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Faeberrun. Eberreness. Khorvlaerun. Dungeons & Dream Magic.

Eberron's cosmology is nearly indistinguishable from the Planescape cosmology in every respect that matters. I know that sounds like an odd thing to say, since Eberron has only 13 outer planes to Planescape's 17 outer and 18 inner planes, but I don't think the precise number is important for...

No, that was the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix, three years before Planescape. And given the management at the time, it was that or no demons at all. They didn't rename them all, anyway. Manes, dretches, succubi, bar-lgura, babaus, abishai, imps, quasits, cambions, goristroi...

I think he only appeared, and was statted, in Return of the Eight.

According to the Forgotten Realms stuff, the amphibians were created by an amphibian race called the Batrachi, and the snake and lizard races (not dragons) were created by a serpentine race called the Sarrukh. I credit the amphibians, fish, and oozes as aboleth creations. Like this: FC2...

In 2nd edition, Alhamazad was a sorcerer (the Al-Qadim character class that specialized in two elemental provinces). The Wu Jen might be a good approximation.

Check out Duicarthan's Greyhawk NPC Archive. It's got all of them. Fan-interpreted, of course. Keep scrolling down... Though personally, I think Bigby ought to be an Argent Savant.

Erik Mona used to have a Rose Estes Hate Page that explained the animosity pretty well. All the rape and bestiality in those books takes its toll. As for Maelfesh, here's the opening paragraph from The Demon Hand by Rose Estes. "The demon Maelfesh was restless; even worse, he was bored. Life...

I voted for Maelfesh (the villain that Rose Estes invented after she killed off Iuz), just to annoy Erik Mona. The idea of redeeming legacy craphawk amuses me, though.

Don't forget vrocks (Demon, Vrock; Type I Demon; True Tanar'ri, Vrock), especially as Tony DiTerlizzi drew them.

I'm 99% certain they've only ever been mentioned in the Book of Vile Darkness. It's not so much that they've disappeared than that they've never been fully integrated into any campaign setting.

I liked the art in the modron article, but it's not going to do much to convince people who think modrons are silly-looking that they aren't. The artist was going for whimsical rather than "stern beings of perfect Law." The image of Regulus on the article's opening splash page is gorgeous...

Stunningly lovely. The Swinburne quotes are a nice touch, too.

From the Ashes was great on many levels, but it was very much Carl Sargent's vision, not Gary Gygax's, and some people are so consumed with Gygax's role in creating the setting and the game or with the screwed up shenanigans involved with his leaving the company that they're not interested in...

As interesting as it is to explore how the modrons were corrupted by Orcus, I think it's just as interesting to think about how Orcus was corrupted by the modrons.

The 1e Rogue's Gallery, apparently. Interesting.

I noticed that Phoebus, the reincarnated lizardfolk from Oerth who works as a bodyguard in the World Serpent Inn, appeared earlier as the mayor of the hamlet of Greatrock in Slavers, page 47. He didn't seem as unhappy and persecuted as the Dragon article made it seem like he was on Oerth; the...

Libris Mortis seems to be saying that these creatures are animated by primitive spirits (energons?) from the Negative Energy Plane, rather than the souls who once resided in them. So they have souls of a sort.

Why would a petitioner on the Outer Planes be helpless? Logically, it would be much harder to drag a soul kicking and screaming across several planes of existence than to capture a soul that's only 25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels away. No. Didn't you read the post you were ostensibly responding to? I...

Do you have a page number for this? Your claim seems to contradict what I'm reading in the book. From page 7: "Evil acts can resonate in multiple dimensions, opening cracks in reality and letting the blight creep in. A sufficiently heinous act may attract the attention of malicious spirits...