It's a very nice book and it's honestly the best I could have asked for in terms of a tip of the hat to Planescape.
I'm also happy that much of the stuff on
Planewalker wasn't contradicted. Very little contradictions on the Sigil material.
There's been a firestorm over on the WotC boards about a single line in the book: Lady of Pain (LN, female, unknown race).
People have been bashing the art and lauding the art alternately for the book, but mostly they've been screaming that they sky is falling because Her Serenity was A) given an alignment, and B) given an alignment other than N. I knew about this a few months back before the book came out, and it surprised me, but I can see reasoning for it, even if it's not the way I would have gone. (Heck, it opens up plot hooks if you consider the whole 'Factol Hashkar of the Fraternity of Order was a petitioner of Sigil' thing...).
Actually on one of the WotC threads I made a joke about how long it would take for the people on the [booming voice]EPIC[/booming voice] boards there to start trying to figure out ways to kill The Lady since she now had a single stat, alignment. Well, I meant it as a joke, not seriously, but someone took me up on the offer and spawned a few pages of *politely chuckles and leaves it all unsaid*.
I'm happy with the fluff included in the book. I'm personally getting a bit tired of the 'Lets make every planar race have a subrace that's +0/+1LA'. If I want to play a bladeling I'll play a bladeling, not a spiker. *shrug*
The factions got love in the book, this makes me smile. (as much as I've been picking on where the locations of the 4 Doomguard citadels got placed since the negative touched quasielemental planes got removed for no reason. Only 1 of them is now on the same element, even if the surroundings are described as matching the older environs)
