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I'll third that. I loved Rogue Mistress.

You missed: M5 - Talons of Night IM1 - The Immortal Storm IM2 - Wrath of Olympus IM3 - The Best of Intentions For AD&D, I11 (Needle) might also count as a planar adventure of sorts, as it involves a trip to other worlds and the same planar spiders you see hopping around the above modules...

"The Ecology of the Kopru" a few issues ago offered an alternative origin for Demogorgon - that he is the child of two mothers, the Elder Evil Shothotugg and a being called Prukal who the kopru believe personifies the sky. Now, this may be extremely unlikely (how would Demogorgon then be a...

That's what some gods are, but other gods are ascended mortals striving toward becoming the apotheosis of a concept, having touched the divine, able to draw power from it but not yet fully assimilated into it. It's not "stupid" for a god not to meet your narrow definition of what a god should...

Adamantine dragons were planar dragons native to Bytopia in 2e, too; they come from the 2e Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix. I don't know what you're thinking of, but there weren't any adamantine dragons anywhere else apart from the named one in Planes of Conflict.

You're being overly literal, I think, and not tricky enough. Some secrets are best kept in plain sight, after all; hidden within red herrings and false leads. Perhaps the most effective god of secrets would have a name known by everyone. A name, not a true name. Vecna, though, is effective as...

Who says he's famous? In-character, I mean. On Oerth, the existence of his empire and Keoland's early complicity with it is one of the most hidden of state secrets - the Order of the Silent Ones and the Knights of the March were both founded to erase knowledge of Vecna. Out of character, the...

He's the god of secrets. Nobody does it better, except Dumathoin, who has a completely different take on the issue.

Bigby died at the beginning of the adventure Vecna Lives!, killed along with the rest of the Circle of Eight (saving only Mordenkainen), the victim of the last wielder of the Hand and Eye of Vecna. There was another scenario, in the anthology Treasures of Greyhawk, that involved the PCs going...

Some of the drow gods (like Vhaeraun, Ghaunadaur, and Eilistraee) originated in the 2e FR accessory Drow of the Underdark, but Kiaransalee and Zinzerena originated in the generic 2e book Monster Mythology. So some of them are originally FR, some aren't. I did love the additional mythology the...

It's telling me the file's corrupt or incompatible. Anyway, I can't read it.

Moogle seems to have nailed it - a "strong central conflict" seems to make settings less popular, not more, because it limits the flexibility of the setting. You can do almost anything with the Realms or Greyhawk or Eberron that you want to do, but in Dark Sun or Dragonlance you're stuck...

Although the vaati were the ones who died and sacrificed to put Miska in check, the real counterpart to the Queen of Chaos on the lawful side is probably Asmodeus, who might be secretly aiding the PCs in their quest to reconstitute the rod and defeat the schemes of the obyriths. It would be...

There are a lot of undead types that aren't required to be evil. The necropolitan from Libris Mortis, the archlich from Monsters of Faerun, and a number of others - I had a list once, but I don't feel like compiling it now. There are a number of non-evil ways to use negative energy, and...

It's interesting, I really liked it at the time, and a lot of the backstory mythos in Fiendish Codex I came originally from there. It's kind of clunky in retrospect, with Abyssal lore having gained in sophistication since, but there's a lot you can take from it. Several of the demon lords from...

I've also found that to be the case. I've always liked Spelljammer, though I didn't play in it very much. There are some things about it, in retrospect, that could have been done a lot better, and I completely respect people who decide it isn't their cup of tea. As for "stepping on the toes of...

Actually, according to the 3e Manual of the Planes, page 61, it takes 1d4 hours. That's it. Hardly a long journey. Not so difficult, either. Sure, there are monsters, but there are monsters everywhere. It doesn't much matter how rough the terrain is when the trip's over in 1d4 hours. Maybe the...

I doubt it, actually. She isn't one of the Beloved Ones. I mean, although she was name-dropped earlier, essentially she owes everything about her either to one late-2e generic adventure that no one seems to have much liked and then the Paizo/Fiendish Codex I stuff. I, at least, have no strong...

Fighting the obyrith-led hordes of Chaos were not just the Wind Dukes, or vaati, but also a race of "angels" led by Asmodeus (according to FC2). The vaati were the rulers of much of the Inner Planes, having dominated the genie courts and the elementals, while the "angels" came from the Outer...

Demonweb = Demonweb (its own plane) Azzagrat = Azzagrat (part of the Abyss) Beastlands = House of Nature Plane of Mirrors = Plane of Mirrors Yggdrasil = Great Tree that connects the planes