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Honestly, I think the approach they've been taking to psionics is "both/and", not "either/or". Say what you will about the theming of Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (as of Tasha's - we'll see if it changes in the '24 PHB), but Psi Knight Fighter and Soulknife Rogue are pretty classic "Jedi" psionics.

Clearly the party's only chance of survival is appeasement: snacks or scritches, likely both.

A bit curious that the Storm Kings Lords have been moved out of Arcadia proper and into Fortitude. They never got too much focus, but the old Storm Kings were essentially Arcadia's equivalent to the various demigod-tier planar powers, a la archdevils, demon lords, etc.

A piece of art previously previewed at GenCon clearly shows Hashkar, Rhys, and Darkwood with their classic designs (albeit unnamed), so it's almost certain those Faction posters aren't portraying the Factols.

I think there's a decent chance we'll also see a Planescape Monstrous Compendium on Beyond like we got for Spelljammer and Dragonlance.

Oh hey, Baernaloths! Curious to see how they're handled, as I'm still a bit sore over how 5e handled the Oinoloth (it's an individual archfiend, not a category!), but it's nice to see those nightmarish abominations make a return. Sudden Blind Clockmaker PSTD Flashbacks Why am I crying?

With all due respect, the Outlands chapter here is almost identical in its usage of page space to the 2e Player's Primer to the Outlands. The Gate-towns have always been counted as part of the Outlands, and always among the plane's most notable locales, so saying that they "shouldn't count"...

With the page space limitations of the slipcase format, I fundamentally can't see them having the room to cover the planes at large in any more detail than they already do in the cosmology chapter of the DMG, and doing even that much would be to the detriment of everything else they have to fit...

36 pages covering the Outlands with ~2 pages for each Gate-Town is more or less on par with the section covering the Outlands from the 2e Planescape Campaign Setting boxset and the later Player's Primer to the Outlands. Could it have been more? Certainly. It can always be more. But given the...

The Mind's Eye always felt like the natural extension of the Godsmen belief system to me, so them replacing the Believers of the Source was functionally never more than a rename and a changing of the guard for the various Faction high-ups as far as I was concerned. Especially notable given that...

Each of the classic Factions in the "Ascendant Factions" list (which is frankly all but one of them) has their pre-FW factol back when every one of them save Rhys were either killed, mazed, or otherwise "disappeared" over the course of the FW, so yeah the 5e Planescape is clearly not a direct...

Within Sigil, they traditionally serve slightly different functions. The Harmonium serve as the city guard and are ostensibly focused on keeping the peace. The Mercykillers, by contrast, are the city's corrections officers, and are focused on meting out Justice upon those who have already been...

According to one of the videos they put out in their first batch, Gate-towns sliding into their neighboring plane is still very much a thing - supposedly Faunel is in the process of rebuilding because its previous iteration recently-ish slid into the Beastlands. It's late and I'm sick, so...

They're obviously going for the "remix" approach rather than a direct continuation from Faction War. A bit annoying for those of us that actually find the post-Faction War setup compelling, but on the whole, probably far easier for newcomers to the setting if/when they delve into the older...

Jeremo the Natterer approves.

They were previously affiliated with the Negative-Quasi-Elemental Planes (Ash, Dust, Salt, and Vacuum), so moving it to the Elemental Chaos isn't that big of a change conceptually, given the current version of Inner Planar cosmology.

The Revolutionary League and Xaositects didn't provide much of a service to the city beyond keeping everyone else on their toes, but I would argue the Free League provided a lot of services, particularly for less ideologically minded merchants and businessmen in the Market Ward, just not in an...

Seem to be mostly classic factions actually, with a couple of name changes. The Athar, Bleak Cabal, Doomguard, Fated, Fraternity of Order, Harmonium, Mercykillers, Society of Sensation, and Transcendent Order are all classic Planescape Factions, up to and including seemingly having their...

Very similar, but diabolical elevator music comes with an EULA woven in (spoken in a voice outside the range of most mortal hearing) making it clear that by continuing to listen, you have agreed to forfeit your soul and all negotiation beyond that point is just a matter of seeing what else they...