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.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Either believe people when they say they had issues with bloat or don’t. I don’t really care. But I’d have to say, so far, I think you’ve actually been proven wrong.

I think a lot of people on boards like this worry about it, certainly. It is a problem for those people because they believe it to be. Which makes it a real problem, for them. Having that be an excuse for a designer to produce less product is a problem for me.

 

[Hussar]

Because it's enjoyable to casually play in different parts of the setting. Casual is a style of play. They don't worry overly much about optimization and strategy. That doesn't mean that they don't enjoy the lore and don't want new books.

So they don’t worry overmuch about the details of the game but the details of a setting are important?

Look either they are casual or they aren’t.

And, frankly, if you care about setting lore, learn to use dms guild. It’s that simple.

 

[Maxperson]

So they don’t worry overmuch about the details of the game but the details of a setting are important?

That isn't what I said. There's rather large difference between hyper focusing on charop builds and just enjoying how the game plays with the lore and stuff that's out there. The latter allows for all kinds of interesting non-optimal characters that the casual folks enjoy playing, well, casually.

And, frankly, if you care about setting lore, learn to use dms guild. It’s that simple.

That's harsh and just plain isn't going to happen. It ranks right up there with, "If you want X then D&D isn't the game for you and you should play something else."

 

[Hussar]

That isn't what I said. There's rather large difference between hyper focusing on charop builds and just enjoying how the game plays with the lore and stuff that's out there. The latter allows for all kinds of interesting non-optimal characters that the casual folks enjoy playing, well, casually.

That's harsh and just plain isn't going to happen. It ranks right up there with, "If you want X then D&D isn't the game for you and you should play something else."

No. It isn't harsh. And no, it has nothing to do with saying D&D isn't the game for you.

You want more lore books. There are lore books GALORE right there. There is a mountain of lore books, some of which are written by the creators of the settings. The only thing they don't have is the WotC logo on them. That's it. Ed Greenwood has a half a dozen or more new Forgotten Realms lore books out right now. There's this book, 300 PAGES of lore material written by people who obviously know and care about the topic.

It's all right there for you. You cannot complain that you don't know about it, because you're here, talking about it.

Other than having a Wizards of the Coast branding on the cover, what more can you possibly want?

It is not harsh to tell someone that every single thing they are asking for is right there. It's not hidden. It's not hard to find. It's right there for you. Everything you are asking for is available to you right now. But, apparently that's just "plain isn't going to happen"? That's no longer a WotC problem, nor is it a fandom problem.

 

[Hussar]

/me takes a breath.

Apologies folks. This little sidebar has nothing to do with the topic and I will be stepping back now. I think that the creators of this product deserve a huge amount of thanks and good wishes for the obviously mountain of work they undertook to bring something like this to us. Well done all of them and I hope that this absolutely crushes it on sales.

 

[Maxperson]

No. It isn't harsh. And no, it has nothing to do with saying D&D isn't the game for you.

You want more lore books. There are lore books GALORE right there. There is a mountain of lore books, some of which are written by the creators of the settings. The only thing they don't have is the WotC logo on them. That's it. Ed Greenwood has a half a dozen or more new Forgotten Realms lore books out right now. There's this book, 300 PAGES of lore material written by people who obviously know and care about the topic.

It's all right there for you. You cannot complain that you don't know about it, because you're here, talking about it.

I've been talking about the casual player, not myself. The casual player that WotC itself says doesn't come to these sites and look stuff up. That includes 3PP.

Other than having a Wizards of the Coast branding on the cover, what more can you possibly want?

It would be nice if they could have a complete setting.

That's no longer a WotC problem,

It is actually their problem. They want to make money and they need to court the majority of folks who don't come here if they want to do that.

 

[Hussar]

I've been talking about the casual player, not myself.

Well, there's maybe the heart of the problem. Instead of trying to talk for other people, about which we know nothing and have no idea what these "casual players" actually want, maybe stick to talking about what you want? Because, well, I say that these "casual players" don't want anything you're talking about. Prove me wrong.

Funny how any time people start talking about what "other people want" it always seems to square up nicely with what they want... Almost like these fabricated groups of fictitious folks are stand ins for someone....

 

[Incenjucar]

Anyways, while I own just about every PS source book at this point, +1 to the sales in support of hard work by passionate people who share the love for my favorite setting.

 

[Maxperson]

Well, there's maybe the heart of the problem. Instead of trying to talk for other people, about which we know nothing and have no idea what these "casual players" actually want, maybe stick to talking about what you want? Because, well, I say that these "casual players" don't want anything you're talking about. Prove me wrong.

Funny how any time people start talking about what "other people want" it always seems to square up nicely with what they want... Almost like these fabricated groups of fictitious folks are stand ins for someone....

It's really convenient dismissing the casual folks like that. It allows you to just focus on me and be able to tell me to go buy 3pp. Regardless of what you might think, the reality is that there are a whole lot of them that buy 5e products and would be happy with complete settings. WotC knows this even if you don't. And they have to court these people, even if you think they should all listen to you and go onto the internet to find stuff. Because they won't go onto the internet, but they will go to their FLGS to buy more books.

 

[Parmandur]

Regardless of what you might think, the reality is that there are a whole lot of them that buy 5e products and would be happy with complete settings.

Are there, though...?

Because they won't go onto the internet, but they will go to their FLGS to buy more books.

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