A Walk Through the Planes
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 41: Mysteries of the Dead Gods
As with all of their campaign settings, following TSR’s revival/change in ownership Planescape went through a weird glut of material at the end of 1997. Somehow the employees kept writing new adventures and supplements…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 40: Faces of Evil: The Fiends
It’s unfortunate that Faces of Evil: The Fiends was the last Planescape release Colin McComb would fully author before leaving TSR. Almost everything he’d written up until this point was really leading here, and…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 39: A Handful of Keys
The final Planescape release of 1996, and in fact the last release for Planescape they’d ever publish until the company was somewhat resurrected by Wizards of the Coast, is unique in that it’s mostly…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 38: Doors to the Unknown
For the final time1, we’re returning to an adventure from the Planescape setting’s author who has inadvertently become my nemesis, Bill Slaviscek. This is his fourth appearance in this series, and third time with…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 37: The Gates of Firestorm Peak
So much of what would become planar canon originated with the foundations laid in the 70s and 80s by Gary Gygax, Jeff Grubb, and Ed Greenwood, such that it’s particularly weird to have a…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 36: A Guide to the Astral Plane
One of the few disappointments of Monte Cook’s A Guide to the Astral Plane is that it makes you wish the entirety of the planes was given such a lush, luxurious treatment. I love…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 32.5: The Rod of Seven Parts
I know it seems like I must’ve forgotten this adventure (and one more 1996 release that I haven’t covered yet, The Gates of Firestorm Peak, but that’s just because it didn’t come out until…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7.375: Into the Silver Realm
I’ve been doing my best to be as thorough as possible in documenting every remotely major release that TSR/WotC published with information about the planes1, but I must admit that despite the already-insane length…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 35: On Hallowed Ground
A few months back when I covered Legends & Lore and Monster Mythology, it was in preparation for reading On Hallowed Ground. I was curious as to how much this newer work added to…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 34: Fiendish Fortresses
One of the unfortunate facts about mid-90s Dragon Magazine was that it was a house organ, existing primarily to support TSR, and as a result many of its articles are largely a form of…
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