D&D 5E What kind of planar book do you hope for?

[Stormonu]

A planar handbook with a section on the great wheel as an example.

I like toolboxes, but if I’m going to bother with buying a book, I’d like to have something concrete I can use. Otherwise, it’s just advice and I can save money making my own planar cosmology up.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

None of the above.

The rules are already covered in the DMG, and there are too many planes to make it possible to go into detail on all of them in a single book (and some are pretty dull anyway).

So there will be an adventure path, that will visit Sigil and a couple of other planes. There will not be a specific planer setting book.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I am more interested in a in depth Shadowfell, Feywild book with a splash of the Elemental And Quasi Elemental Planes. To that add some monsters native to each and maybe some races reprint Eladrin, Satyr for Feywild, Shadar-kai for Shadowfell and Genasi elemental planes.

You could dedicate a whole book each to the Shadowfell and Feywild.

 

[Mercurius]

None of the above.

The rules are already covered in the DMG, and there are too many planes to make it possible to go into detail on all of them in a single book (and some are pretty dull anyway).

So there will be an adventure path, that will visit Sigil and a couple of other planes. There will not be a specific planer setting book.

The poll is what you want, not what you think they'll publish.

But you may be right. I hope not as I want to see a dedicated planar sourcebook/setting. My hopeful prediction is that we see a Planar Sourcebook/Manual of the Planes and story arc that fleshes out Sigil.

 

[Horacio]

As a longtime Planescape fan, I would love to see some kind of Nameless One's guide to SIgil and the Planes.
Setting, rules and an adventure, with gorgeous DiTerlizzi art.
Something that would make young players feel the same awe I felt some 25 years ago when I opened my Planescape box...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The poll is what you want, not what you think they'll publish.

Much the same - I'm not keen on a general "planar sourcebook" since that material is already covered superficially in the DMG and core rules, and trying to cram the multiverse into one book could never be more than superficial. I would rather have a sourcebook focusing on one plane in detail, or planar adventures.

 

[vpuigdoller]

You could dedicate a whole book each to the Shadowfell and Feywild.

Well yes lol but I am trying to compromise.

 

[SkidAce]

Tangent self promotion: My own bias manifests in my series of products on the DMs Guild covering each plane. The Codex of the Infinite Planes series is up to volume 22 with 4 more to go. I just hope whatever planar book gets released doesn't invalidate the content I've released!

I didn't know you were here. Good to see you!

 

[Maxperson]

The poll is what you want, not what you think they'll publish.

But you may be right. I hope not as I want to see a dedicated planar sourcebook/setting. My hopeful prediction is that we see a Planar Sourcebook/Manual of the Planes and story arc that fleshes out Sigil.

You'll get it. What @Paul Farquhar is overlooking is that planar books are extraordinarily popular. People want them and will buy them, even if the books don't go into great detail. That and 5e is all about not going into great detail and letting the DMs flesh out the details in-between the broader information given. The DMG information is far too sparse, though, so it's very likely that we will get more in a book to come.

 

[TwoSix]

Considering my own games use my own house-ruled hybrid of the Great Wheel and the 4e cosmology (exception: I use the Orrery in my Eberron games), I would like a planar supplement to be as diverse and piecemeal as possible. Ideally, it would be as far from an "establishing canon" book as possible, and predominantly a toolkit.