Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

You can now pre-order Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse from D&D Beyond. The set comes out on October 17th.

Scroll down through the comments to see more various peeks at the books!

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

An adventure setting spanning the infinite realities of the world’s greatest roleplaying game

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• Discover 2 new backgrounds, the Gate Warden & the Planar Philosopher, to build planar characters in the D&D Beyond character builder
• Channel 7 otherworldly feats, new intriguing magic spells & more powered by planar energies
• Explore 12 new ascendant factions, each with distinct cosmic ideologies
• Face over 50 unusual creatures including planar incarnates, hierarch modrons, and time dragons in the Encounter Builder
• Journey across the Outlands in an adventure for characters levels 3-10 and 17
• Adds adventure hooks, encounter tables, maps of Sigil and the Outlands & more to your game

This 3 books set comprises:

• Sigil and the Outlands: a setting book full of planar character options with details on the fantastic City of Doors, descriptions of the Outlands, the gate-towns that lead to the Outer planes, and more
• Turn of the Fortunes Wheel: an adventure set in Sigil and the Outlands designed for character levels 3-10 with a jump to level 17
• Morte’s Planar Parade: Follow Morte as he presents over 50 inhabitants of the Outer Plane, including incarnates, hierarch modrons, time dragons, and more with their stats and descriptions

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Hordlinhs from ad&d I think.

I just checked, MToF had devil and demon customization tables

EDIT: it has 5 tables:
d6 Traits
d6 Ideals
d6 Bonds
d6 Flaws
d20 Features

Features has things like:
Ever-Open Extra Eye: the demon gains advantage on Perception checks related to sight.

Something like this seems perfect for slaadi

 

[SkidAce]

While I just mentioned the hordlings in a post, if I remember correctly, there was another book that had charts for customized demons - maybe the 3e Fiendish Codex?

I will look tomorrow.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I don't like to show "chaotic aligment" as "chaotic stupy".

Chaotic Stupid - TV Tropes

A Lawful Stupid character is defined as someone who will follow a set of rules beyond when it is reasonable to do so. A Chaotic Stupid character is just the opposite; they abide by no rules whatsoever. Not laws, not customs, not ethics, not even …

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There is order in the nature. For example if you studied Nature in school you can understand how the trees absorb nutrients from the soil, through the sap it is sent to the leaves, and through photosynthesis carbon dioxide is transformed into oxygen and glucose. When a pathogen wants to infect a body, and the immune system responds, there is an "order".

* What weird places from Creepypaste could be source of inspiration for a Planescape adventure? I say Planescape, not Ravenloft.

* What about the spirit world, working like an echo plane, like the Feywild and the Shadowfell?

Spirit World

The Spirit World was one of the planes of existence in the World Tree cosmology. It was home to the Celestial Empire and its Bureaucracy, the overarching pantheon of Kara-Tur. The Spirit World was apparently incompatible with the Great Wheel cosmology, coming as it did from a radically different...

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What if the giants created their secret "spirit world"? Working as a "purgatory" where petitiones woud be working in farms until reach the "ascension".

* Let's imagine a demiplane like New Capena, with magitek, but a secret, the diesel-punk machines aren't true technology but animated by ghosts or spirits. Teorically this is willing, but souls punished to "forced works" for their crimes for their previous lifes.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Personally, as a player, I think an Adventure is the best way to introduce a setting. I’m not a DM, I’m not going to read a 120+ page setting guide. No thank you!

I have found myself somewhat enamored of WotC's collections of one-shots (Radiant Citadel, Golden Vault, Candlekeep Mysteries), and I think that going this route for the setting books would be such a better call than another Chris Perkins Epic.

Like, I admire that in the Ravenloft book, each domain was kind of its own adventure hook. Spelljammer is more than the Buck Rogers vibes of the adventure it came with. A collection could help highlight multiple aspects of a setting, different tones and different power groups within it, and give DMs something to piece together with a throughline if they wanted.

So I agree, and even think that multiple, shorter adventures would be better than bigger, longer-arc adventures.

 

[Quickleaf]

Personally, as a player, I think an Adventure is the best way to introduce a setting. I’m not a DM, I’m not going to read a 120+ page setting guide. No thank you!

You can include an Adventure that's unwelcome – it's one-off, it doesn't have much application outside of its own sphere, it's not easily broken into modular components, it shows a very limited slice of the setting.

And you can include an Adventure that's welcome – it's adaptable and/or has replayability, it has application outside of itself (tools over story beats & showcase scenes), it's designed to be modular, and it shows a wide swath of the setting.

 

[Tsuga C]

And the pre-order for hardcopy sets begins when?

 

[Parmandur]

You can include an Adventure that's unwelcome – it's one-off, it doesn't have much application outside of its own sphere, it's not easily broken into modular components, it shows a very limited slice of the setting.

And you can include an Adventure that's welcome – it's adaptable and/or has replayability, it has application outside of itself (tools over story beats & showcase scenes), it's designed to be modular, and it shows a wide swath of the setting.

I would propose that the Spelljammer campaign is essentially like having taken the sundry adventure locations as seen in previous Setting books (or Fizban's or Bigby, for that matter), and stringing them along in an ostensible story. In 64 pages, that book packs a lot of dungeons thst can be excised from the story and used in different ways.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

And the pre-order for hardcopy sets begins when?

You can order the physical - Digital bundle from wizards right now, for a small discount, honestly it's a better deal then anything else unless Amazon does a major sale on it or you want the collectable cover version.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

But are players supposed to buying this, or DMs? If it's meant for DMs, then we're back to that, "it's not for you" claim people keep making to me.

WotC tries and often fails to make books for everyone, reducing the quality of the product.

 

[Mecheon]

On Slaad, my favourite version of them came from 4E. Their gimmick there was they really hated how reality was bound and all the infinite planes of the multiverse weren't accessible any more, so they tended to just. Bite at the problem. Just eating away the fabric of reality. As you do

Plus White Slaad having the ability to just pull alternate versions of themselves from the timestream is always a fun visual

There was also playable sort-of-Slaad in the Neraphim at some point who I wouldn't mind coming back, as a Slaad-lite would be an interesting counter to rogue modrons. One infected with chaos, the other infected with law