Allow me one moment of planar related show and tell
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mhacdebhandia
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You have a right to be proud, Shemeska! That's a fantastic cover.
avin
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Can I get an autographed copy?
Want to buy an autographed copy too!
All my games were changed to 4E (easier to DM, rather spend preparing time with my daughter.
I have bought the 4E Manual of the Planes. While is better than 3E ones in my opinion, some things were necessarly changed to accomodate my views of the planes.
Even Pathfinder being out of my plans, I will be buying your planar guide and paizo's book of monsters for the fluff and inspire.
If you haven't checked out Paizo's "Classic Monsters Revisited", then do yourself a favor and get a copy. The rules may be 3E, but the re-imagining of each of these iconic monsters is outstanding. If the Great Beyond comes close to the work done in that book we'll all be wowed!
Shemeska
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Want to buy an autographed copy too!
All my games were changed to 4E (easier to DM, rather spend preparing time with my daughter.
I have bought the 4E Manual of the Planes. While is better than 3E ones in my opinion, some things were necessarly changed to accomodate my views of the planes.
Even Pathfinder being out of my plans, I will be buying your planar guide and paizo's book of monsters for the fluff and inspire.
I was asked for an autograph at GenCon last year, and I probably looked like a deer in headlights for a moment afterwards. I'm still not sure how to handle that except to feel amazingly flattered, and a bit worried about folks having massive expectations out of me on future material. It's an alien feeling to me. But if anyone does, and assuming the book is out by GenCon this year, I'll happily sign anything.
And now even if you're using a different cosmology in your games (Great Wheel, 3e FR Great Tree, 4e World Axis, homebrew, etc) do what I usually do with planar books for other cosmologies - plunder them of all their yummy bits and go all Borg on the material I happen to like. Even if you don't use the cosmology in TGB exclusively as written, I can certainly hope that some folks might snatch up elements like the proteans, the axiomites, the reworked daemons, or take inspiration from one planes's concepts or another and spin something of their own off from that.
I feel proud of the material in the book. It was an absolute blast to work on, IMO it's some of the best stuff I've ever done, and it's also almost entirely unconstrained by any previous canon or setting elements like material I've written for use within the Great Wheel, published or otherwise (though from my Storyhours my version of Planescape isn't precisely canonical, but statement stands). Tons of creative freedom for me when I did this.
Congratulations Shemeska on achieving such an awesome goal. Although I don't see eye-to-eye with you on many things, I can't help but be impressed.
And that means a whole hack of a lot to me. Thank you very very much. Given the nature of the cosmology and its natives, I'm honestly curious about the reception that it'll find both from fans of the 1e/2e/3e Great Wheel planes and the 4e cosmology as well.
Classic Monster Revisited was an awesome book. And now you're making me worry about keeping up that standard. Expectations. Eeek.
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