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.

 

[Maxperson]

Are there, though...?

Yes.

The casual audience is going to Google Wikipedia of old lore, or not care.

Those are not the only options, nor are they the most likely. The casual audience will be in their local FLGS and if they see a new book will look at it to see if they are interested. A casual group who likes the Forgotten Realms and finds a new book on say the Heartlands or the South will very likely buy it.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Those are not the only options, nor are they the most likely. The casual audience will be in their local FLGS and if they see a new book will look at it to see if they are interested. A casual group who likes the Forgotten Realms and finds a new book on say the Heartlands or the South will very likely buy it.

What?! The casual audience is at the FLGS?! I don’t think you are in touch with the casual audience.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes.

Based on what market data?

Those are not the only options, nor are they the most likely. The casual audience will be in their local FLGS and if they see a new book will look at it to see if they are interested. A casual group who likes the Forgotten Realms and finds a new book on say the Heartlands or the South will very likely buy it.

The casual audience does not know what the letters FLGS mea, let alome ever go into one...

WotC have stated on multiple occasions that their main product competition is Google searches and Wikis. And that makes sense: any D&D prodict needs to compete with free resources available to the most casual players

 

[Incenjucar]

Based on what market data?

The casual audience does not know what the letters FLGS mea, let alome ever go into one...

WotC have stated on multiple occasions that their main product competition is Google searches and Wikis. And that makes sense: any D&D prodict needs to compete with free resources available to the most casual players

Which makes it a bit ironic that they avoid using compelling writing styles and instead use college Freshman essay writing that is just wiki writing with a few larger words here and there.

Edit: Compelling writing styles are going to have value even if the bullet points are all ripped out of them.

 

[Parmandur]

Which makes it a bit ironic that they avoid using compelling writing styles and instead use college Freshman essay writing that is just wiki writing with a few larger words here and there.

Bit of a matter of taste, but yes, they are writing to appeal to people and how they like to read.

 

[Maxperson]

Based on what market data?

All of it. 5e books sell well.

The casual audience does not know what the letters FLGS mea, let alome ever go into one...

They buy the books somewhere. They see them there.

WotC have stated on multiple occasions that their main product competition is Google searches and Wikis. And that makes sense: any D&D prodict needs to compete with free resources available to the most casual players

Then they should start!

 

[Parmandur]

All of it. 5e books sell well.

Yes, and WotC doing their market research and targeting their releases plays a part. It is telling that their one-and-done Setting supplements are running circles around any prior Edition Setting products

They buy the books somewhere. They see them there.

Yea, but theybare not buying all of them: the data we have suggests that moat players do not buy moat D&D vooks: they need to target specific audiences.

 

[Maxperson]

Yes, and WotC doing their market research and targeting their releases plays a part. It is telling that their one-and-done Setting supplements are running circles around any prior Edition Setting products

And apparently their research shows that they need supplemental setting books. They announced that they will be revisiting settings already released.

I also disagree that it is telling that their 5e releases are doing better than the 3e and 4e releases. They have like 10x more people buying. Of course the new books are going to do better. The 3e and 4e releases would have done much better if so many more players had been around back then.

 

[Parmandur]

And apparently their research shows that they need supplemental setting books. They announced that they will be revisiting settings already released.

I also disagree that it is telling that their 5e releases are doing better than the 3e and 4e releases. They have like 10x more people buying. Of course the new books are going to do better. The 3e and 4e releases would have done much better if so many more players had been around back then.

I didn't mean 3E or 4E, I meant 1E or 2E, sales with 3E or 4E sales being incidentally smoked.

And it is telling, IMO, that ao many more people are buying. Particularly when most people aren't buying most books
Thst means they are reaching those numbers by targeting niches, successfully.

No doubt that they will revisit Settings: sounds like the Vecna Adventire will involve traveling between worlds to assemble the ERod of Seven Parts. And a, say, Xen'drik slipcase might make sense, to dovetail with the Khorvzire book.

 

[darjr]

And apparently their research shows that they need supplemental setting books. They announced that they will be revisiting settings already released.

I also disagree that it is telling that their 5e releases are doing better than the 3e and 4e releases. They have like 10x more people buying. Of course the new books are going to do better. The 3e and 4e releases would have done much better if so many more players had been around back then.

10x times more people buying for a variety of issues a few of which are quite likely the release pace and style. Cmon!