Planescape Manual of the Planes for 5e on DMSGuild

New on the DMSGuild is the Manual of the Planes for 5th edition. The cover is stunning.

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It's over 300 pages and the credits page includes folks from The Draconomicon, The Dragonlance Companion, Tasha's Crucible of Everything Else, Planescape: Metropolis, The Honkonomicon and Planewalker.com

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I love the special thanks.

This project was made possible by Roll20. Thank you for unlocking new horizons for the latest generation of planewalkers, bashers, berks, and touts. We’d also like to thank the giants on whose shoulders we stand when writing this book: Justice Ramin Arman, Richard Baker, Wolfgang Baur, David “Zeb” Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, Jeff Grubb, David Noonan, F. Wesley Schneider, Rick Swan, and all others who helped create and cultivate Planescape and the planes.

I've just bought it and am reading it now.

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Here is the table of contents.

 

[afroakuma]

@afroakuma are revisions noted on the site or if there are updates will I see them if I got the PDF now?

Checking to see what the process is.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Checking to see what the process is.

Anecdotally, I seem to get lots of emails from DriveThru about various books being updated. I personally ignore - but that's because I'm not actively using any of the books.

I assume the email that a pdf has been updated is automagic from DTRPG; but working in software, I know how dangerous those assumptions can be...

 

[Zaukrie]

Anecdotally, I seem to get lots of emails from DriveThru about various books being updated. I personally ignore - but that's because I'm not actively using any of the books.

I assume the email that a pdf has been updated is automagic from DTRPG; but working in software, I know how dangerous those assumptions can be...

IIRC, when I update something on DMSUILD, I can check a box to say send an email.....but I don't know if that is accurate or my imagination.

 

[EthanSental]

This might have been mentioned in the 11 pages but the classic planscape font and up/down sizing at certain pages strike a 2e cord with me as I thoroughly enjoyed reading the planscape related stuff, even if we didn’t use it in game much.

 

[Vincent55]

i still have my box sets and other stuff from the original Planescape setting which is a mountain compared to this small book.

 

[afroakuma]

i still have my box sets and other stuff from the original Planescape setting which is a mountain compared to this small book.

We wouldn't dream of trying to cram an entire product line into one book, but we hope that this offers some highlights and fleshes out some areas that even the Planescape boxed sets didn't really give their due - I would have loved there to be twice as much written for the original setting as was originally published, really.

 

[Echohawk]

i still have my box sets and other stuff from the original Planescape setting which is a mountain compared to this small book.

It seems self evident that a product line consisting of six boxed sets, three monster books, nine supplements, twelve adventures, four novels, a comic, and a computer game will have more content than a single 326-page PDF. So that's an odd comparison to make.​

 

[darjr]

It seems self evident that a product line consisting of six boxed sets, three monster books, nine supplements, twelve adventures, four novels, a comic, and a computer game will have more content than a single 326-page PDF. So that's an odd comparison to make.​

Probably cost them a bit more than $30 too.

 

[Echohawk]

Probably cost them a bit more than $30 too.

More than twenty times as much. If you bought them when they were released, a full set of Planescape print products would have set you back $605.26.

Spoiler: Planescape line release day prices

$30.00: Planescape Campaign Setting (March 1994)
$9.95: The Eternal Boundary (May 1994)
$18.00: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (June 1994)
$30.00: Planes of Chaos (July 1994)
$15.00: Well of Worlds (September 1994)
$9.95: In the Abyss (October 1994)
$9.95: The Deva Spark (November 1994)
$30.00: Planes of Law (January 1995)
$12.95: Fires of Dis (March 1995)
$15.00: A Player's Primer to the Outlands (April 1995)
$15.00: In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil (May 1995)
$20.00: The Factol's Manifesto (June 1995)
$12.95: Harbinger House (July 1995)
$18.00: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (September 1995)
$30.00: Planes of Conflict (November 1995)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 1: Blood Hostages (January 1996)
$12.95: Something Wild (February 1996)
$20.00: Uncaged: Faces of Sigil (March 1996)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 2: Abyssal Warriors (May 1996)
$25.00: Hellbound: The Blood War (June 1996)
$20.00: The Planewalker's Handbook (August 1996)
$25.00: On Hallowed Ground (September 1996)
$15.95: A Guide to the Astral Plane (October 1996)
$12.95: Doors to the Unknown (November 1996)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 3: Planar Powers (July 1997)
$18.95: Faces of Evil: The Fiends (September 1997)
$25.00: The Great Modron March (October 1997)
$30.00: Dead Gods (November 1997)
$05.99: Pages of Pain (paperback) (December 1997)
$21.95: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (March 1998)
$19.95: Tales from the Infinite Staircase (May 1998)
$16.95: A Guide to the Ethereal Plane (August 1998)
$19.95: Faction War (October 1998)
$19.95: The Inner Planes (November 1998)

 

[dave2008]

More than twenty times as much. If you bought them when they were released, a full set of Planescape print products would have set you back $605.26.

Spoiler: Planescape line release day prices

$30.00: Planescape Campaign Setting (March 1994)
$9.95: The Eternal Boundary (May 1994)
$18.00: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (June 1994)
$30.00: Planes of Chaos (July 1994)
$15.00: Well of Worlds (September 1994)
$9.95: In the Abyss (October 1994)
$9.95: The Deva Spark (November 1994)
$30.00: Planes of Law (January 1995)
$12.95: Fires of Dis (March 1995)
$15.00: A Player's Primer to the Outlands (April 1995)
$15.00: In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil (May 1995)
$20.00: The Factol's Manifesto (June 1995)
$12.95: Harbinger House (July 1995)
$18.00: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (September 1995)
$30.00: Planes of Conflict (November 1995)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 1: Blood Hostages (January 1996)
$12.95: Something Wild (February 1996)
$20.00: Uncaged: Faces of Sigil (March 1996)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 2: Abyssal Warriors (May 1996)
$25.00: Hellbound: The Blood War (June 1996)
$20.00: The Planewalker's Handbook (August 1996)
$25.00: On Hallowed Ground (September 1996)
$15.95: A Guide to the Astral Plane (October 1996)
$12.95: Doors to the Unknown (November 1996)
$5.99: The Blood Wars 3: Planar Powers (July 1997)
$18.95: Faces of Evil: The Fiends (September 1997)
$25.00: The Great Modron March (October 1997)
$30.00: Dead Gods (November 1997)
$05.99: Pages of Pain (paperback) (December 1997)
$21.95: Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (March 1998)
$19.95: Tales from the Infinite Staircase (May 1998)
$16.95: A Guide to the Ethereal Plane (August 1998)
$19.95: Faction War (October 1998)
$19.95: The Inner Planes (November 1998)

And that is $1,135.93 in 2023 dollars!

That is roughly $31.55 per 2e product on average.