Planescape: What's the best stuff?

[eric mcloins]

- The Core Box + Planes of Conflict, Planes of Law, Planes of Chaos: You rally must have these four products. The best of them is Planes of Conflict, in my opinion.

- In the Cage, Uncaged, Factol's Manifesto: these three books gives much more info on Sigil, the center of the campaign setting, and on the factions. A must have.

- Planescape MC appendices I,II,III - very good monsters books

- Dead Gods, Tales from the Infinite Staircase, The Eternal Boundary, Harbinger House and Faction War: These are the best Planescape published adventures, IMO. TftIS doesn't get a whole lot of attention, but is one of my favorite adventures. Some people like Faction War, some don't I do. Dead Gods, of course, is muy excellente.

- Hellbound: A nice addition to the collection.

- Fires of Dis, Something Wild - nice adventures, nothing more.

- In the Abyss, Deva Spark, The Great Modron March - I wouldn't bother with these adventures

- I also wouldn't bother with Planewalker's Handbook, Guide to the Ethereal Plane, Guide to the Astral Plane, The Inner Planes,

 

[Klaus]

Planewalker's Handbook is, bar none, the best written of the entire line. It was written by Monte Cook, and it was the first RPG book I read that I actually noticed the writing. Sure, most of it is a re-presentation of stuff in the core box, but it is done in a way that makes it the best player resource in the line.

Other than that, I'd go with the core box, the Planes of... boxes (Law, Conflict, Chaos), the first two Monstrous Compendium Appendixes, and Hellbound: The Blood War.

 

[RichGreen]

Planewalker's Handbook is, bar none, the best written of the entire line. It was written by Monte Cook, and it was the first RPG book I read that I actually noticed the writing. Sure, most of it is a re-presentation of stuff in the core box, but it is done in a way that makes it the best player resource in the line.

Other than that, I'd go with the core box, the Planes of... boxes (Law, Conflict, Chaos), the first two Monstrous Compendium Appendixes, and Hellbound: The Blood War.

Hi,

I really like the Planewalker's Handbook too. Claudio is right about the other stuff, but I'd also pick Uncaged for the interesting NPCs and great art. To be honest, with the exception of two or three of the adventures, it's all very very good.

Cheers


Richard

 

[Klaus]

Hi,

I really like the Planewalker's Handbook too. Claudio is right about the other stuff, but I'd also pick Uncaged for the interesting NPCs and great art. To be honest, with the exception of two or three of the adventures, it's all very very good.

Cheers


Richard

Thaks for reminding me: Uncaged: Faces of Sigil is one of the best NPC books around, and I find that it fleshes Sigil out even better than In The Cage: A Guide to Sigil.

And I'll have to throw in Player's Primer to the Outlands if only for the detailing of the Gate-towns and the Planar Sects (think of them as less famous factions... my favorite were the Guardians).

 

[kenmarable]

I just sat down to finally read my PDF copy of this the other day, only to discover that the file's messed up. A little ways into the book, it shifts from Faces of Evil to one of the 2E drow books. Seriously.

And RPGNow is claiming that I have no more downloads left, so I can't even try to get a new copy.

[Tangent] I'd contact customer service. They've been quite helpful for me in the past. Resetting your download count on that is probably just a mouse click or two away for them.[/Tangent]

And just echoing what everyone else has said. If you want to get into Planescape there were very few if any bad Planescape products. So get your mitts on anything you can!

As for where to start reading, for the best intro, I'd start with the original boxed (obviously) and/or the Planewalker's Handbook. Both are good overviews and help inform you on where you want to go from there.

 

[Voadam]

I just sat down to finally read my PDF copy of this the other day, only to discover that the file's messed up. A little ways into the book, it shifts from Faces of Evil to one of the 2E drow books. Seriously.

And RPGNow is claiming that I have no more downloads left, so I can't even try to get a new copy.

RPGNow recently said a pdf I bought had used up its five downloads. But it was the first time I tried to download it. An email to rpgnow's customer service got it taken care of the next day.

 

[mfrench]

First of all, thanks for all the advice so far. I've got a truckload of stuff, and man is it interesting. There's so much to go through! I've also gone over to Planewalker to look at the conversion process.

The artwork (well, most of it) is very interesting, it gives it a very unique feel. The cant really helps too.

I'm looking forward to reading some planescape story hours now, to try and get a feel for the setting.