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

www.dndbeyond.com

• 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

 

[overgeeked]

New interview with Jeremy Crawford, who says the upcoming rules revision will make it easier for WotC to revisit the settings they already made books for in 5E, such as Spelljammer, Ravenloft and Planescape. So if we are lucky, this book isn't the last thing about the setting Wizards will make.

D&D designer says upcoming rules revision will let WOTC revisit classic settings - Dexerto

D&D lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford explained how next year’s rules revision will allow Wizards to revisit popular campaign settings.

www.dexerto.com

That’s a weird take. Revising the rules will make it easier? So it’s hard without the revisions?

 

[SkidAce]

That’s a weird take. Revising the rules will make it easier? So it’s hard without the revisions?

Yeah, on the surface that confuses me.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Thanks to Kor on Minisgallery, we have images of the Limited Edition release set from the upcoming Wizkids Set 30 - Planescape -Adventures in the Multiverse!
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Like with the Bigby's set, these are probably the repaints of Uncommon rarity minis from the upcoming set.
The minis named are:
-R04M - a Monodrone, nice touch with the painted wing. Often, people who regularly deal with Modrons put paint or markings on their chassis (Modrons will ignore this and won't remove them unless instructed by superiors) so they can tell the various Modrons apart, given that their personalities are all the same.
-Doomguard Rot Blade - That confirms the Doomguard are still around as a faction.
-Bariaur Wanderer - Nice to see they did not get undersized like the Centaur minis in the Theros set.
-Warden Archon - I am super happy because this confirms Archons - the proper, Lawful Good Celestials, not the 4E Elementals in armor (those are called Myrmidons now) are back to 5E! Hopefully we get other ones like the Sword or Trumpet or Hound Archons too.
-Shemeshka's Bodyguard - That is clearly an Eater of Knowledge, all dressed up prim and proper. Ilsenine is known to loan out his creations to especially lower planar creatures. Leave it to Shemeshka (who, like the Penguin in DC comics, runs a "reputable establishment" in Sigil), to try to dress up a mass of brain matter so they do not ooze slime everywhere in her casino.

We do not have preview images yet from the main set. One thing that is sure though, that other than the Limited Edition set and the regular boosters, there is also a "Character Miniatures Boxed set" coming, and a separate set for a larger creature called a Whirlwyrm. Not sure what the latter is, maybe something from the adventure.

Warden Archons and Ursinals look very similar to each other (based on them both being bears), but the fact that one is wearing fancy armor is enough for me to recognize that's a Warden Archon.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Reading the article, I think the point he's making is that doing a rules revision that's intended as a continuation of 5e lets them continue to build on their existing 5e work in a way that a full-on new edition wouldn't, because new editions tend to serve as a "hard reset" where they have to essentially start over from scratch (people wanted a new 5e Eberron book, even though the lore in the 3e/4e Eberron books is perfectly usably, for example).

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Warden Archons and Ursinals look very similar to each other (based on them both being bears), but the fact that one is wearing fancy armor is enough for me to recognize that's a Warden Archon.

My first thought was of an Ursinal - the scroll made me think of Tripicus from Faces of Sigil - but yeah, the armor really implies Warden Archon.

 

[BB Shockwave]

That’s a weird take. Revising the rules will make it easier? So it’s hard without the revisions?

Reading the article, I think the point he's making is that doing a rules revision that's intended as a continuation of 5e lets them continue to build on their existing 5e work in a way that a full-on new edition wouldn't, because new editions tend to serve as a "hard reset" where they have to essentially start over from scratch (people wanted a new 5e Eberron book, even though the lore in the 3e/4e Eberron books is perfectly usably, for example).

I think he means that since the rules will largely stay the same as 5E they do not need to go back and rework these settings for "6E" much and just continue making new appendices and adventures for them. That'd be a nice return to the old 2E style of book releases. One can dream...
So yeah, as Veltharis says, basically since there is an 5E Eberron book already introducing the setting, they could make a new adventure with say, stat blocks for the various Eberron-exclusive Rakshasa types and other new stuff down the line someday.

My first thought was of an Ursinal - the scroll made me think of Tripicus from Faces of Sigil - but yeah, the armor really implies Warden Archon.

Yeah, interesting how both the Chaotic and Lawful Celestials have a bear-headed type. I wonder if they will keep the DiTerlizzi art style for the Guardinals and make their faces be a weird mix of animal and human, or they will leave them fully animal-headed.
At any rate, Archons would still be easy to tell apart from Guardinals due to their ornate armor.

Warden Archons and Ursinals look very similar to each other (based on them both being bears), but the fact that one is wearing fancy armor is enough for me to recognize that's a Warden Archon.

They are named as well in the set description, so it is 100% definite.
Here is also the side of the box.

The Bodyguard of Shemeshka is an exclusive mini to this limited edition set. My guess is, the set itself will have a non-clothed regular Eater of Knowledge.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Yeah, interesting how both the Chaotic and Lawful Celestials have a bear-headed type.

Guardinals are NG - from Elysium.

CG would have been Eladrin, but they've been pretty thoroughly eaten by the Feywild, so honestly, who knows what the CG "exemplars" of Arborea are these days.

 

[BB Shockwave]

Guardinals are NG - from Elysium.

CG would have been Eladrin, but they've been pretty thoroughly eaten by the Feywild, so honestly, who knows what the CG "exemplars" of Arborea are these days.

Oh yeah, I keep confusing the alignment there.
I would like if they could just say there are Eladrin who are actually Celestials too, and bring back the Ghaele, Firre, etc. I think Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes does have some sidebard mention of such Eladrin, but I need to look it up.

 

[Demetrios1453]

That’s a weird take. Revising the rules will make it easier? So it’s hard without the revisions?

I'm guessing easier in that they've been planning the revision for some time and would be hesitant to publish things that might be contradicted by it. After the revision, that won't be as much of a worry

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, on the surface that confuses me.

Reading the article, I think the point he's making is that doing a rules revision that's intended as a continuation of 5e lets them continue to build on their existing 5e work in a way that a full-on new edition wouldn't, because new editions tend to serve as a "hard reset" where they have to essentially start over from scratch (people wanted a new 5e Eberron book, even though the lore in the 3e/4e Eberron books is perfectly usably, for example).

Yeah, he is saying that Riaing from the Last War is a current book with 2024 rules, so that they won't have to revisit the same material with a new ruleset as they did with 4E and 5E. So they can put out a Ravnica or Eberron AP at some point, like they did with Wildemount, keeping the 2018 and 2019 core Setting books in print to interact with new material. A Xen'drik book, say, or a tie in to the Ravnica/Clue Mashup coming to Magic next year.