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I will shamefully admit to never having really used Factions as major elements of a Planescape campaign... but in my defense, all of my games have been run post Faction War. The Factions and their scattering to the planes, their changes, and the fallout of the mazing of many of their factols did...

This is pretty cool. The artwork is nice, I like the absence of gigantic brow-ridge horns in favor of something more subtle. However I do wish that they would have stayed faithful to earlier lore that presented cambions as a title exclusively for demon-blooded half-fiends, rather than extending...

It's good to see WotC joining the ranks of Paizo, Posthuman, and others in the industry trying to present a more inclusive game via the artwork and more.

Demons and yugoloths (with lots of specifics for lesser versus greater 'loths) could breed amongst their own kind in 2e and 3e. With some exceptions that varied by edition, only unique devils could procreate. Succubi being able to breed would be a direct continuation of the 2e/3e lore on demons...

The current Primus probably has no firm idea if its own story is the truth, given the discontinuity and corruption in the Modron Energy Pool after Orcus/Tenebrous used the Last Word on the previous incarnation of Primus and temporarily assumed his position. Neither Slaadi nor Modrons...

There was never a connection with Primus before. The Spawning Stone was previously described in Ed Bonny's 2e Dragon material, portions of 'Tales from the Infinite Staircase' from Planescape, and elsewhere over the years, as the creation of the Slaad lords Ygorl and Ssendam who intentionally...

Here's where I'm coming from however - in returning to a common cosmology in 5e, I think it very much does matter to retain as much continuity as possible in the presentation and flavor of planar monsters, and feel free to disagree with me here, but I do hold that there is both history and...

I respectfully disagree. It was a great opportunity to ease the continuity issues caused by bizarrely making them suddenly devils in 4e, but they tried a middle option. I do appreciate the making of succubi/incubi overt as coming in more than just female form and removing a bit of awkwardness...

Ok; huh that's odd; cool; bah; awesome. Thanks :)

How much ecology information is there on the yugoloths? Does it mention the Oinoloth (Anthraxus or Mydianchlarus?) and/or the General of Gehenna, the baernaloths? Does the ultroloth have any facial details such as a mouth or nose, or is it back to old-school blank face except for the spooky eyes?

This is rather a large assumption, and one that I frequently see: that of all the editions past and current, only 4e is or was capable of attracting new players. I think every single edition has attracted its own share of new players from outside the hobby, and I'm not sure if anyone has data to...

Acheron makes sense to me - Lawful Evil, not under the yoke of the Baatezu hierarchy, somewhere that the Rakshasa can operate as hidden masters atop the senseless, endlessly warring petitioners. Throw in palatial, illusion cloaked cube worlds populated by Rakshasa and their slaves. When the...

Well there's one odd retcon in there. Rakshasa are now specifically linked to and originate in the 9 Hells, rather than previously an implied link to Acheron. That seems an unnecessary change. The particular change to succubi/incubi is a somewhat IMO awkward attempt to reconcile the 1e/2e/3e...

That would have really helped when they made the 5e tiefling exactly like the 4e tiefling. There's a lot in 5e that I'm totally cool with and happy to see, but a few things like that just stick out as genuinely bizarre decisions when it would have been trifling to include 2e/3e tieflings in all...

**** The otyugh roared with gibbering, incoherent rage, sending forth a shower of discolored, foul-smelling spittle as it charged forwards out of the sewers on a wave of filth. Above and around it, a quartet of very-much-on-fire vargouilles circled, shrieking in pain and glaring down at the...

I'm going to seriously enjoy detailing the precise relationship between the two of them as the storyhour progresses. No spoilers from me before then however. I'm all for speculation though. :D

Which yugoloths are in the book? Do they call arcanaloths arcanaloths or the weird 4e name?

http://imgur.com/a/W5BQl It looks like a lot of the Great Wheel with some elements of the 4e World Axis put in. It isn't perfect, but I can work with this, and would happily write for it given the opportunity. I really dig the incorporation of the 2e Planescape symbols for the various outer...

Pathfinder's cosmology is a giant love letter to the 1e/2e/3e Great Wheel. Trust me on this one.