Best Planar books?

[grodog]

WotC's early 1990s tomes The Primal Order and Chessboards: The Planes of Possibility books, which are great inspiration for any planarally-inclined DM!

 

[catsclaw227]

More 2e Planescape stuff:

'Faces of Evil: The Fiends' and 'Hellbound: The Blood War'.

The first is the seminal sourcebook regarding the fiends of DnD, and the latter is the primary source of information regarding the Blood War, its history, and its impact across all of the planes. If you like fiends, these two books are among the must haves.

I also liked the 2e 'Secrets of the Lamp' by Wolfgang Baur, for the level of detail it give to the genie-kin of the inner planes.

Geez.... Looks like I am going ebay hunting for a box-full of planescape stuff, or at least get some PDFs. [Looking into the vast black hole that is my rpg habit -- watching it suck in my spare pennies]

 

[catsclaw227]

Book of the Planes has a bit more of a Planescape style, and would probably be better for you if you want to make organizations important in a game. The planes it provides are more in line with the traditional D&D cosmology.

Portals and Planes is a bit more off-beat, and entertains more different options for how you might run a planar game. One even inspired me to start a campaign (see my River of Worlds thread.)

OK -- I may look into both of them. Maybe someone here has a sale or I can get an ebay copy inexpensivey.

I'll check out your River of Worlds too.