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.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Can I just say that I LOVE the Content Warning and Being Respectful sections of the DMs Guild listing? To @kenmarable and @WhatLiesBeyond and anyone else who worked on this book - this is very helpful for me and some of my players. I wish more books included this type of information.

Money's tight rn especially after shelling out cash for the physical book. And tbh, I prefer a dead tree version, because then I'll more likely use it. (Edited to add: I will probably pick up the POD next year when cash flow is less restricted)

But I can already tell that my homebrew game that started with Lost Mines (the original) is going to Sigil. And we will answer the question... Why does Lolth want to take over Sigil, what happened to the Lady of Pain, and what the heck does any of this have to do with our 5 PCs?!?

 

[AnotherGuy]

I'll likely get a copy of it in December as Sigil and the Planes will be the next major chapter in our campaign - and I've for the most part have had much success using the material I've bought from the DMs Guild.

 

[Incenjucar]

It looks like if you combine that book with Sigil from the new release, you'll have a good Planescape setting.

I hope so. As both an original gen Planescape fan and a creative the boxed set is a bit painful to read. It reads like a book report about a 2010s CGI cartoon and is literally pink instead of green for maximum contrast with the old books.

 

[dave2008]

I wish I could give it a flip through first, and buy it in print second.

Money's tight rn especially after shelling out cash for the physical book. And tbh, I prefer a dead tree version, because then I'll more likely use it.

They said they hope to have a PoD version eventually.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Well, I'm suitably intrigued and might go grab this. Granted, seeing "xag-ya and xeg-yi" at the bottom of that table of contents is definitely massive points in its favor. One of my fondest memories as a DM is when I created a trap with a few dozen xag-ya and xeg-yi separated by a wall of force with a perilously close rod of cancellation.

 

[dave2008]

I hope so. As both an original gen Planescape fan and a creative the boxed set is a bit painful to read. It reads like a book report about a 2010s CGI cartoon and is literally pink instead of green for maximum contrast with the old books.

I am confused, what is the "boxed set" you are referring too? The new 3-book set in a slipcase (which is literally not a boxed set), or something else.

 

[Parmandur]

Honestly, even as someone who does have a lot of attachment to the the 2e version of Planescape (as well as Planewalker's fan-made, post-Faction War version from the 3e-era, possibly to an even greater extent), I think the 5e Planescape is really good for what it set out to do, especially given its page space limitations.

Could it be better? Certainly. Are there things I wish they'd covered in more detail? Absolutely. But overall, as an introduction to Planescape for a modern audience, I think it does a fairly solid job and I'm quite satisfied with it.

If nothing else, the fact that it is ao good makes more Planescape in the future more likely with a new Cadre of fans.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I hope so. As both an original gen Planescape fan and a creative the boxed set is a bit painful to read. It reads like a book report about a 2010s CGI cartoon and is literally pink instead of green for maximum contrast with the old books.

The cover of Sigil and the Outlands (and of the slipcase as a whole) is essentially the same color scheme as the cover of the original Planescape Campaign Setting boxset.

 

[Demetrios1453]

The cover of Sigil and the Outlands (and of the slipcase as a whole) is essentially the same color scheme as the cover of the original Planescape Campaign Setting boxset.

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In fact, compare the cover of the 2e set to this picture in the 5e set:

 

[Incenjucar]

I'm not talking about covers, I'm talking about the interior pages covered in pink. If you wanted to talk about covers turn any 2E book to the spine.