A Walk Through the Planes
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…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 89: Book of Exalted Deeds
2003’s Book of Exalted Deeds is an answer to a question that no one asked. While playing a villainous D&D party remains rare, heroics and general acts of goodliness are for the most part…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 88: Astral Encounters
For whatever reason, once Wizards of the Coast got ahold of Dungeons & Dragons they kept going back to the Astral Plane. That doesn’t mean that they really understood what the hell they were…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 87: The Lich-Queen’s Beloved
In the context of today’s direct competition between Wizards of the Coast and Paizo, it can be weird to remember just how linked the two companies once were. Not only was Paizo made up…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 86: Humor & Hellspawn
Just a month from our last planar Dragon article, we already have another pair to check out in issue #306 (April 2003), the “Humor & Hellspawn” issue. Not that either of these articles have…
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