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.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm predicting this is the fastest selling adventure* for 5e.

*non sourcebook

 

[Zaukrie]

This art is very evocative

 

[dave2008]

True, but you can go a long way on public domain in a usable way.

Good to know

Further on the dMs Guild, since the Outer Planes are fair game entirely.

That was my point

 

[dave2008]

The fact that so many people rave about RPG art like it's some big reason to buy the product it's attached to is a constant source of low-grade annoyance to me. I've never felt even close to that way about any RPG product outside of the 2e Planescape line (where it might matter enough to affect my purchasing decisions at all).

I'm a visual and imaginative person. An image sparks my imagination more than text. The art and graphic design are two reasons I skipped 2e and 3e.

I will likely buy the 2024 Monster Manual for the art only. $55 for a fantasy art book is a good deal to me!

I spent hours upon hours inspired by the art in the 1e MM and Deities and Demigods. Much more so than any text in those books. Though that is my default D&D lore as well (really not a fan of some of the stuff added / retcon during the 2e+ era)

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'm a visual and imaginative person. An image sparks my imagination more than text. The art and graphic design are two reasons I skipped 2e and 3e.

I will likely by the 2024 Monster Manual for the art only. $55 for a fantasy art book is a good deal to me!

I spent hours upon hours inspired by the art in the 1e MM and Deities and Demigods. Much more so than any text in those books. Though that is my default D&D lore as well (really not a fan of some of the stuff added / retcon during the 2e+ era)

My desired lore ended with 2e more or less. I'm a reader, and my inspiration comes from words and ideas. Pictures just aren't that important to me beyond showing me what stuff looks like.

 

[dave2008]

My desired lore ended with 2e more or less. I'm a reader, and my inspiration comes from words and ideas. Pictures just aren't that important to me beyond showing me what stuff looks like.

What I don't like about text is they they tell you what things are, it takes out the mystery. With a picture I can imagine so much more. My preference is a little directional text / lore and some great art to inspire me in my own direction. I like to have ownership of the lore, and I get that more easily from pictures than I do words.

That being said, I do like ideas. So I do like text that is full of ideas, but I prefer it be light on description

PS - i was a reader more when I was young, but I have always been an artist / designer (and still am). I explore ideas through drawing more than I do through writing.

 

[dave2008]

My desired lore ended with 2e more or less.

Mine ended with the 1e MM1 & 2, 1e Deities and Demigods, and to a lesser extent the 1e Manual of the Planes

I wish they had never extend the lore beyond what was in those books (setting books not withstanding - which I wish was understood as their own separate thing)

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Odd that they skipped Argenach Rilmani, since I feel those would be encountered more often than the Aurumach. Or how there's no Leonal Guardinal or Lupinal Guardinal, or no Trumpet Archon (which is easily the most angelic looking Archon). And I would have liked to see how they would have resolved what the Celestial Eladrin are or even called in 5e.

 

[Micah Sweet]

What I don't like about text is they they tell you what things are, it takes out the mystery. With a picture I can imagine so much more. My preference is a little directional text / lore and some great art to inspire me in my own direction. I like to have ownership of the lore, and I get that more easily from pictures than I do words.

That being said, I do like ideas. So I do like text that is full of ideas, but I prefer it be light on description

PS - i was a reader more when I was young, but I have always been an artist / designer (and still am). I explore ideas through drawing more than I do through writing.

I want as much description as possible, that I can choose to deviate from if I want. I change stuff, but I do it from a place of stability.

My wife says I process my right brain through my left brain. I can't think of a better way to describe my thought process. Virtually no artistic ability here, and less interest.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Rilmani are of the Celestial creature type.