fusangite said:
Manual of the Planes, on the other hand, I had absolutely no intention of buying. I had planar travel and never use it in my campaigns. However the alternate cosmologies section I actually consider to be the finest thing WOTC has produced for D&D, with the possible exception of the Players' Handbook.
I agree with that - I didn't think too much of MotP overall (when compared to my 1e version, that seemed to include a lot more info), but the cosmologies section was inspired. The monsters section was nice also, albeit most of its contents should have been in the original MM.