News: Ravenloft back to WotC - and a FoS message

[jcfiala]

WotC has carved it up and spread its innards across dozens of books, but they haven't specifically gone and published books specific to the planes of DnD (which Planescape is inextricably linked to, they're one and the same). The best we've gotten was the Manual of the Planes and the Planar Handbook, and that was watered down Planescape and more crunch than not, respectively.

So - You've got Manual of the Planes, The 3.5 DMG (which seems to reprint a fair bit from the MotP), and the Planar Handbook. Where are the dozens of books that Planescape has been spread across? I'm interested in the big PS, but these seem to be the only official WotC books about planar travel.

 

[Clueless]

Bits here. Pieces there. Estavan shows up in one of the d20 modern releases. Tieflings in FR (We had them First!!). I'm sure Shemmy has a much longer list of 'Planescape walk ons' than I do.

 

[Shemeska]

So - You've got Manual of the Planes, The 3.5 DMG (which seems to reprint a fair bit from the MotP), and the Planar Handbook. Where are the dozens of books that Planescape has been spread across? I'm interested in the big PS, but these seem to be the only official WotC books about planar travel.

Look at the number of planar critters that show up in the various monster books, either ones that originated in PS or were further fleshed out in PS beyond a 1e one line or two description.

MM
MM2
Fiend Folio
MM3
Manual of the Planes
Planar Handbook
3.5 DMG
Book of Exalted Deeds
Book of Vile Darkness
ELH
Urban Arcana (Estevan of the Planar Trade Consortium shows up as an NPC)
Scatterings of planar stuff in Frostburn, Sandstorm, and apparently Stormwrack briefly
Planar Dragons and draconic deities in Draconomicon
Githyanki and Githzerai etc in the Psionics Handbook and XPH
Some planar associated undead in Libris Mortis that came from PS
PS sourced material in Lords of Madness
Some brief Blood War mention in Heroes of Battle
Some planar stuff in Races of Destiny

PS material that manages to continue to find itself in FR books even after FR tried to seperate itself off into a retroactively seperate cosmology

Modules:

'Lord of the Iron Fortress' - Acheron, Mercykillers, the Gatetown of Rigus, etc. Uses the setting if not the tone and atmosphere in the same way
'Bastion of Broken Souls' - positive energy plane, death slaadi, fiends, etc.


It also might be worth noting that I don't differentiate between Planescape and generic planar stuff if it uses the same planes or things from those of the Great Wheel / Planescape cosmology.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I have no idea howmany copies it sold because it was released over a year after I left WotC. So it could have been a success in WotC terms, or a complete flop, I don't know.

I bought 1, and I know at least one other person that did. So that means you sold at least 2 books!
(Sidenote: interesting setting, neat material, I'll probably never use anything of it, but it was a fun read. I pretty much knew all that going in though.)

 

[Joël of the FoS]

I bought 1, and I know at least one other person that did. So that means you sold at least 2 books!
(Sidenote: interesting setting, neat material, I'll probably never use anything of it, but it was a fun read. I pretty much knew all that going in though.)

Make it three It was interesting as a source of options for Ravenloft dead caracters.

I reviewed it with Ravenloft lenses there http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/DR_Pages/WotC_Products.htm (scroll down to 2003)

Joël

 

[Ketjak]

Bah (or should I say "Baugh?")

Folks,

White Wolf botched these lines, Gamma World much worse than Ravenloft. GW, if anything, "muddied the waters" for GW in the future, essentially making a relaunch difficult at best, probably impossible for the next few years.

- Ket

 

[Kesh]

That's your opinion, Ketjack. I, among others, disagree with you.