D&D 5E WotC Shares Theros Table of Contents

WotC has shared the table of contents of Mythic Odysseys of Theros. Well, part of it, at least.

Update -- thanks to "obscureReviewer" on Twitter, here's a fuller image!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Did they confirm it is the great wheel or that they are all part of the same multi-verse setting? I mean Eberron is part of the D&D multi-verse, but it is not part of the great wheel.

IIRC, it was in a Lore You Should Know, but I can't find the exact one.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I can't imagine them going in on a Planescape-focused book rather than one that covers the whole cosmology. I can definitely see Sigil getting a chapter -- home bases are good -- but rather than a bunch of material focused on the factions and just the outer planes, I think we're more likely to see them do all of the planes with those pages instead.

Yeah, if this book were to come out, I definitely think it would have a chapter on all the outer and inner planes, expanding on the information in the DMG.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

DC Comics's Flash has a rogues gallery villain named Mirror Master who has been doing that shtick, as far as I know, since the 1960's.

Mirror Master's abilities don't work anything like the Plane of Mirrors. He has jumped in and out of mirrors before, and lurked in a few over the years, but if there's a large extradimensional space he uses behind the mirrors to move back and forth through our world, it's not something that's happened often enough to be a core element of the character.

Writers really aren't sure what to do with him. He started off with a "mirror gun" that shot sunlight lasers, had mirrored contact lenses that could hypnotize people and has summoned people's reflections and such.

It's a neat idea for a character, but the implementation is a mess, much moreso than for the rest of the Rogues Gallery, who tend to have one easy to define schtick (other than the Trickster, of course).

 

[Parmandur]

I can't imagine them going in on a Planescape-focused book rather than one that covers the whole cosmology. I can definitely see Sigil getting a chapter -- home bases are good -- but rather than a bunch of material focused on the factions and just the outer planes, I think we're more likely to see them do all of the planes with those pages instead.

Maybe some Column A, some Column B in play there. The factions woukd provide some hooks for Adventure, which is one of the big things for these kinds of campaign resource books.

 

[dave2008]

Since DNDBeyond sells stuff ala cart, I may buy the character options. That will sate me over until the physical copy comes out.

I feel the same way about the monsters, though I am interested in the supernatural gifts and piety as well

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I agree. Most of the book won't be used in the game until I run a Theros campaign, but I will enjoy the lore and rules.

 

[dave2008]

IIRC, it was in a Lore You Should Know, but I can't find the exact one.

I know it was said, I am just curious how exactly the phrased it. I don't really care because I don't worry about the "official" cosmology in my game, but I am interested.

 

[dave2008]

DC Comics's Flash has a rogues gallery villain named Mirror Master who has been doing that shtick, as far as I know, since the 1960's. (Obviously Wonderland and Narnia are even older). Still, a lot of writers get ideas from comics they read as a kid.

Andy comics get their ides form folklore, myth, and earlier writers.

 

[Eltab]

Manuel of the Plains' Manual of the Planes.

Plain Manuel's Manual of the Planes

 

[Eltab]

Manual of the Planes

Published by Boeing