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.

 

[Scribe]

The Baernaloth is cool to see, as well!

OK, I'm adding 0.5 back.

Please, please let the write ups on these things not be lame.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Primus would be quite niche, as they should be at the power level of a Demon Lord or Archdevil. While a Secundus might very well be CR 20.

They did leave out the higher CR guardinals and archons, so along with leaving out the highest CR mondrons suggests a pattern - that we'll be seeing them all in a later product (I'm not sure of the rilmani hierarchy, so I'm not sure if the pattern holds up there). As @Parmandur has said, they're wanting some higher CR creatures for the '24 MM, and the ones missing here would fit nicely, especially the celestials. Beyond that, there are still plenty of Archdevils yet to get 5e stat blocks, so that's somewhere else we might see these.

 

[Parmandur]

They did leave out the higher CR guardinals and archons, so along with leaving out the highest CR mondrons suggests a pattern - that we'll be seeing them all in a later product (I'm not sure of the rilmani hierarchy, so I'm not sure if the pattern holds up there). As @Parmandur has said, they're wanting some higher CR creatures for the '24 MM, and the ones missing here would fit nicely, especially the celestials. Beyond that, there are still plenty of Archdevils yet to get 5e stat blocks, so that's somewhere else we might see these.

They would all also be good fodder for "Leomund Presents: The Manual of the Planes"..

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Primus would be quite niche, as they should be at the power level of a Demon Lord or Archdevil. While a Secundus might very well be CR 20.

Primus is considered a full on god

Secundi were CR 19 in 3e so agreed around that seems good for them.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

They did leave out the higher CR guardinals and archons, so along with leaving out the highest CR mondrons suggests a pattern - that we'll be seeing them all in a later product (I'm not sure of the rilmani hierarchy, so I'm not sure if the pattern holds up there).

I remember Warden Archons were quite high up in the hierarchy of Archons. While with the Rilmani it's 2nd lowest Ferrumach (Iron), middle with Cuprilach (Copper) and the top with Aurumach (Gold).

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I remember Warden Archons were quite high up in the hierarchy of Archons. While with the Rilmani it's 2nd lowest Ferrumach (Iron), middle with Cuprilach (Copper) and the top with Aurumach (Gold).

It’s probably these three cause they were the only ones given stats in 3e.

 

[dave2008]

that seems a bit silly, to never expand anything on all of that stuff we would have missed out on a ton.

I don't think we are talking about the same things

 

[Reynard]

Good to know

That was my point

When they released the SRD to CC, they did not make any effort to scrub it of "Product Identity" which has no meaning outside of the OGL. There are a lot of proper names and other IP in that SRD that those who want to can reconstruct certain elements of D&D that would otherwise have been protected under the OGL. A company that wants to create something that would fit really well with Planescape could do so off the SRD (though of course they could not call it Plabescape).

 

[Reynard]

There are products on the DMsGuild right now that have more complete planar bestiaries than this.

Yeah. That's what the DMsGuild is for: letting hobbyists and small outfits do the work that is just not profitable for WotC. It's the reason there was ever an OGL and d20 license at all. (Half the reason anyway; the other half is market dominance.)

 

[Maxperson]

Well "dustman" means "garbage collector" in Britain, which does hurt their gravitas quite a bit...

I had no idea!