D&D 5E Check Out Planescape's Table of Contents & More!

Brandes Stoddard has received a copy of Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse (which come out in two weeks!) and is posting loads of photos over on Blue Sky. You can check out his feed for the whole treasure trove--here's a look at the table of contents.

 

[Parmandur]

For WotC's money, too. They can sell that book to lots of people that didn't buy Planescape. Otherwise they can be almost certain that however many they might sell of a Planescape: More Planes book, it will be fewer than the number that bought PS.

Exactly: lots of people.would like a bestiary with Fiends & Celsstials, and Adventure apparatus for.Hell & the Abyss, who might not vibe with Sigil.

 

[Micah Sweet]

By the way, I was checking up on Outlands material in 2e products. Removing 2e-specific material, the original box set has 30 pages on the Outlands, and the Player's Primer to the Outlands had 25, with much the later's info just repeating from the first (as it was player-facing and not DM-facing as in the box set), compared to 36 here. Only 7 of the 16 gate towns got coverage in the box set, and while all 16 did get coverage in the Primer, they were all less than a page, compared to 2 pages each here. And that is all with the Planescape line's much larger font and with quotes and art taking up huge swathes of page space, both of which much more than 5e does. The only place the 2e products come out ahead is with the godly realms, with both 2e products having 5 (mostly repeated) pages to the 5e's 2.

Well, I guess you win then.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Wow, I'm glade I never picked up the original - this would have killed the setting for me. I certainly hope the new book doesn't take this approach. I was excited to get this book - but now you have me concerned. I guess I will check it out in person first to make sure!

What exactly, the slang? The in-person narration? It seems from text we've seen that both have been dropped (I guess we might see some sidebars or sticky notes in the style, though)

 

[ersatzphil]

PS has always survived as a cult classic actively in spite of WotC (Remember Union?). This gives it a fresh chance to do so for a new generation, and at least gives the old guard a starting point to share the old books and maybe some 3P works.

Gazes into the middle distance, remembering the level 30 town guard

I…
I tried to forget…

 

[dave2008]

I got the boxed set, planes of law, planes of chaos, planes of conflict, in the cage: a guide to sigil, all the monstrous compendiums, on hollowed ground, and a guide to the astral plane. The rest I either couldn't afford having much more limited disposable income in those days, or else they were adventures and I had stopped buying modules after 1e.

I was lucky and all of the products were fairly easily found here in Los Angeles.

Not so in Ohio, I didn't see most, if any, of those products. That being said I was still playing 1e/BECMI when they came out. Though I didn't really think of 2e as a different edition (looked the same to us), I didn't by many 2e books and none of the settings.

 

[overgeeked]

I'm usually kind of a "curated list" GM when it comes to PC options, but if I do decide to run this I am going to throw the doors wide open.

I'm likely to run this and bring back the old "you can play anything, including monsters, and we'll work it out" from OD&D.

“Other Character Types: There is no reason that players cannot be allowed to play as virtually anything, provided they begin relatively weak and work up to the top, i.e., a player wishing to be a Dragon would have to begin as, let us say, a “young” one and progress upwards in the usual manner, steps being predetermined by the campaign referee.” —OD&D, Men & Magic, p8.

I can't think of a setting that this would work better for, or how Planescape could possibly fulfill its potential without it.

 

[Reynard]

Is there a reason to believe they will? Recent history (including several setting releases) suggests otherwise.

Several? This is the second in this format.

I get that you are pessimistic but your certainty is unwarranted, i think.

 

[Parmandur]

Several? This is the second in this format.

I get that you are pessimistic but your certainty is unwarranted, i think.

More notable is that WotC has outnout 1 or 2 Setrong products a year since 2018. Doubt they plan tonstop, based on our limited info on sales.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Several? This is the second in this format.

I get that you are pessimistic but your certainty is unwarranted, i think.

They have released material for four settings since Tasha's: Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and now Planescape. The only one of those that actually was a big setting book was VRGtR, and one, it was the earliest, and two, it was to my mind by far the most egregious product ever released for 5e.

So no, I'm not optimistic.

 

[JEB]

They have released material for four settings since Tasha's: Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and now Planescape. The only one of those that actually was a big setting book was VRGtR, and one, it was the earliest, and two, it was to my mind by far the most egregious product ever released for 5e.

So no, I'm not optimistic.

There was also Strixhaven, which was in the Dragonlance style (or Dragonlance was in the Strixhaven style, I suppose). Radiant Citadel was arguably kind of a setting book too, though yet another different style.