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.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Indeed. Which is unfortunate, because of all the classic settings they've touched (that I've seen), it was the best, IMO.

Actually, it's perhaps worth noting that 5e Eberron had virtually nothing that we hadn't seen before (and even less following the DM's Guild teaser product). But what it did do, like the 4e version before it, was bring together a lot of the very best of the extensive 3e material to provide a very solid one-volume version of the setting. So while I own all the 3e and 4e books, I still find it to be of value, simply for that.

It also helps that Eberron was never all that important to me, so any shortcomings it might have would have been easily overlooked.

On the other hand, my four favorite D&D settings are, in order, Ravenloft, Planescape, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The in-person speech. There is a planescape term for it, but I don't know what it is called. I like more sourcebooks to have more technical writing.

Its the Cant.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yes, I like my RPG books more technical in writing. I'm not reading a novel.

That is the exact opposite of how I feel about setting books.

 

[Parmandur]

The in-person speech. There is a planescape term for it, but I don't know what it is called. I like more sourcebooks to have more technical writing.

The cant is a big turnoff of the original material, I agree. Hard to read, painfully corny. However, we have seen enough text of this set to know that the style is standard 5E prose: plain language and descriptive. We'll probably see a few flavor post-it quotes, but then probably not many.

 

[dave2008]

Hmm, I was able to pick them up in my local comic book shops in Cincinnati and Louisville. Although they did seem to have smaller print runs over time. I remember leftover Planes of Chaos sets for years after they came out, but the others were harder to find after their release.

Well back in those days, as I was playing with my own material, I wasn't checking hobby store where I got my D&D stuff that often. So it could be easy to miss a release. I knew of 2 stores that carried D&D stuff (there were probably more), but I usually only went to one of them. One store was a game store (RPGs, wargamming, etc.) and would have been more likely to carry them, but I rarely went to that store back then (it is the only store i go to know). So it could have just been bad luck on my part. It was not like it was easy search on the internet back then!

 

[Parmandur]

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.

Strixhaven, IMO, would have benefited from the slipcase format.

 

[dave2008]

Just look at the similarities in PF1.

Nor am I familiar with PF1. I thought they had their own setting, Glorian?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well back in those days, as I was playing with my own material, I wasn't checking hobby store where I got my D&D stuff that often. So it could be easy to miss a release. I knew of 2 stores that carried D&D stuff (there were probably more), but I usually only went to one of them. One store was a game store (RPGs, wargamming, etc.) and would have been more likely to carry them, but I rarely went to that store back then (it is the only store i go to know). So it could have just been bad luck on my part. It was not like it was easy search on the internet back then!

There were two gaming stores in the city my hometown was a suburb of when I was growing up, and the one with the better selection is still there to this day. If there was something I wanted, and I had the money, I could get it.

 

[Parmandur]

OK, I am not familiar with what is actually in the SRD. I assumed setting specific locations and names area not in the SRD

For the Outer Planes, a pretty huge amount of the material is public domain references. WotC cannot take action against someone making a book about Hell.

 

[dave2008]

That is the exact opposite of how I feel about setting books.

Interesting. I thought you would care more about the lore than the prose.