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Shemmy does not deserve your sympathy. Trust me here. :) And here's the Paizo Blog giving a preview of Planar Adventures (I wrote this particular blog entry) Todd's Top 5

**** Toras stared at Shemeska’s mangled flesh with shock. The single most vain and arguably most untouchable being that he’d ever met now wept openly, fresh blood leaking from the empty socket of her left eye. “What the f*ck happened to you?” The half-celestial blurted out, a tone of sincere...

The planar lore in MToF is absolutely packed with retcons and retcons of omission. The artwork is spectacular, and if you've never read any prior D&D material it's probably awesome, but if you're a fan of previous settings and prior lore, it's frustrating.

There's a huge difference in providing lots of -potential- backstory, motivations, and hooks from intentionally unreliable in-game sources of information on the topic, versus just having a vacuous absence of that information and claiming it's an inspiration for GMs. The former is what I...

Colin McComb's opening pages in the yugoloth chapter in Planescape's 'Faces of Evil: The Fiends' for 2e addresses that seeming paradox, and is IMO arguably the best material on the 'loths and regarding any of the D&D fiends in any edition of D&D, hands down. It's truly spectacular. That...

Speaking as the person who created Pathfinder's proteans, they're serpents for two reasons. Firstly because it's a nod to the slaadi that were closed content and I couldn't use, but in the Egyptian Ogdoad of Hermopolis creation myth, the primordial chaos of creation was inhabited and shaped by...

The 'loths don't want to destroy anything. They simply want everything to suffer: uniformly and pointlessly. There is no reason, there is no meaning, there is no purpose, but you will suffer all the same. Universe by universe, reality by reality, Evil will infect and devour from within like a...

They would tell you that they're the physical manifestation of a universe grown old, sick, and self-loathing, a cosmos burdened by its own failures and now crying out, begging to end its own pain, the source of which is of course mortal souls. Daemons are a paradox in that they're specifically...

The 'loths are a paradox of utter selfish self-interest and quasi-religious (yet brutally misotheist) zealots and slaves to the abstract concept of primordial Evil and their creators the baernaloths. To quote 2e's 'Faces of Evil: The Fiends', yugoloths only desire a perfect universe: one in...

I absolutely refuse to dignify that with a response. ... but I'm sure that AskShemeshka on twitter will likely rant about it later ;)

Just to clarify, Anthraxus and the General of Gehenna aren't baernaloths. Anthraxus was originally an arcanaloth who became a unique being via a bargain with a cabal of night hags, and once free of his contractual servitude to them he eventually rose to become Oinoloth (and was changed even more...

Yep, my horrific engine of PC-killing doom from my home game, the astraloth, ultimately became Pathfinder's astradaemon, and it's the sole monster on the cover of the forthcoming Planar Adventures. Previews should start up sometime after PaizoCon is finished. I'm really proud of the book itself...

The 'loths had a massive amount of detail and in-game history fleshed out during 2e, and late 3.x played with a lot of that planar prehistory in which the 'loths created the other original fiend races (the obyriths and ancient baatorians). Unfortunately 4e nuked them as a fiendish race entirely...

I think everyone will deeply enjoy and appreciate Planar Adventures. It's a book that a lot of folks have been asking for for some time now. Given when it is slated for release, we should start seeing previews in the relatively near future. :)

Heh. That was written in-character by the character Shemeshka the Marauder, not by me the author who has gone by Shemeska for the last fifteen years or so. I haven't written for WotC since late 4e (when ironically I co-wrote an article on the character Shemeshka). I'd love to write more for them...

That's an unfortunate retcon there in Mearls answer on top top of the already extant retcon regarding "oinoloths" in MToF. Anthraxus is an altraloth, formerly an arcanaloth (per the 2e 'Pox of the Planes' article) prior to his transformation. I'm disappointed that as 5e seems to be genuinely...

It is not to my knowledge, and the way that it's described from what I've seen with respect to the Marut teleporting people there is straight up -impossible- without retconning some core Planescape lore (you cannot enter Sigil by any means outside of the Lady of Pain's portals).

Is the "abashai" typo from the artwork preview fixed to abishai in the actual book itself? Are there tiefling subtypes that -aren't- diabolic in nature described in this book? How much on the yugoloths, and do they walk back anything on the 5e MM yugoloth origins (which contradicts prior lore)?

Is the "abashai" typo from the artwork preview fixed to abishai in the actual book itself? Are there tiefling subtypes that -aren't- diabolic in nature described in this book? How much on the yugoloths, and do they walk back anything on the 5e MM yugoloth origins (which contradicts prior lore)?