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.

 

[dave2008]

Does anybody know what the full lists of races/species are in this?

Really!? Simple click on the link and it gives the ToC with all the races.

However, I'm a sucker so here is the copy paste for you:

• Species (also known as Races)
  • Axani
    • Bladeling
    • Mechanatrix
    • Zenythri
  • Bariaur
  • Chaond
    • Cansin
    • Slaadish
    • Uncannite
  • Eventide
    • Diurge
    • Fairling
    • Gloaming
    • Lumi
  • Exiled Modron
  • Goliath
  • Primordial Genasi
  • Shyft
    • Buomman
    • Calcilach
    • Fogwalker

 

[Vincent55]

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.

Yeah right

 

[Vincent55]

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.​

Comparing the older better to a new half-baked one, not really.

 

[afroakuma]

I was just typing a reply and got ninja'ed.

However, you missed the Exiled Modron. It's entry doesn't start at the top of a page column.

Or was I cleverly referencing it by omitting it? We may never know...

 

[Umbran]

Yeah right

Mod Note:
Content-free denial or dismissal doesn't advance anyone's understanding, and tends to create argument. Please try to be more constructive going forward. Thanks.

 

[Incenjucar]

I see it's up to Silver best seller from Copper, grats!

 

[dave2008]

Comparing the older better to a new half-baked one, not really.

Comparing one new product to 19 older products, not really.

 

[WhatLiesBeyond]

We're doing an AMA if people want in:

 

[Maxperson]

We wouldn't dream of trying to cram an entire product line into one book

Right, but that's what 5e settings get compared to. In 5e they typically do not release any further supplements to a setting, so we have to compare what they release to the entire 2e version. WotC's choice not to expand settings means that 5e settings that were also 2e settings will always fall flat. Flatter than a pancake!

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

That only really matters to those who readily have 2e Planescape at their fingers. Otherwise the 5e setting is all they have. People here like to point to 3pp as an answer to WotC's lack of setting supplementation, but that also falls flatter than a pancake since the vast majority of D&D players(per WotC) don't go online to look stuff up on forums or 3rd party sites.

People will also now point to WotC saying that they are going to be revisiting settings already released, but that really doesn't mean much. Why? Because of 5e's anemic release rate. It has taken them 10 years to give us a handful of settings, which at the same rate of release means 10 more years to get a single supplement for each setting AND each setting needs significantly more than one supplement.

10 years to get just the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms. 10 more years to get say the Heartlands. 10 more years to get the East. 10 more to get the South. 10 more to get...

Now they could release additional setting books, but that just means that we then lose a book like Tasha's or an adventure that would have come out. The only way that they can keep releasing adventures as often as they do, and the rare crunch book and also a decent number of setting supplements is for them to up their release rate, but WotC doesn't seem willing to do that.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

We're doing an AMA if people want in:

I threw you some Qs