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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 98: Monster Manual III
I know, I know, new planar monster listings aren’t terribly interesting. The reason why Planescape’s world—and any other worthwhile interplanar setting, for that matter—is fun to adventure in has to do with the way…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 97: Darkness
One of the larger changes third edition made to D&D‘s cosmology was transforming the Plane of Shadows from a demiplane into a transitive plane coterminous with the Prime. And while this would make you…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 96: Planar Adventure
I knew something was up with the “Planar Adventure” issue of Dragon (#321, July 2004) from its first page of actual content. Editor-in-chief Matthew Sernett’s editorial “Pass the Ketchup” focuses on his love-hate relationship…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 95: Planar Handbook
In third edition proper, I could count the number of truly worthwhile planar D&D releases on one hand. Sadly, this did not include the Manual of the Planes, a book that despite its attractive…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 94: The Exiled Factions
While we’ve had quite a bit of planar material since the end of Planescape and AD&D‘s second edition, “The Exiled Factions” is only the second release that I’d consider a conscious continuation of that…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 93: The Draconomicon
If there’s one thing I’m almost as tired of as new planetouched races, it’s planar dragons. There’s a reason why these were so rare during the Planescape era of D&D, and when they did…
A Walk Through the Planes – Side Story: The Unity of Rings
From the very beginning of this series, I never intended on covering TSR/WotC’s planar fiction. There’s a heaping pile of reasons for this, ranging from these books not really being my type of literature,…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 92: Ghost Elves of the Ethereal
One thing D&D has always been far, far too interested in is adding new types of elves to the game. Admittedly, there is a ton of variation within mythological elves, but still, that’s nothing…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 91: Miniatures Handbook
Of all the random books and articles to end up as part of this series, I never expected to include the Miniatures Handbook, a work I’d never so much as glanced through previously. I’m…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 90: The Ebon Maw
As usual, Dragon featured a tie-in article for the Book of Exalted Deeds. However, “Holier Than Thou: Celestial Monster Classes, Part I” by Christopher Perkins doesn’t actually feature any lore. Rather, it’s just statistics…
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